[NHCOLL-L:3774] Re: removing rubber cabinet seals

[Del Re, Christine]

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Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 8:58 PM
To: NHCOLL-L at lists.yale.edu
Subject: [NHCOLL-L:3771] Re: removing rubber cabinet seals


Hi Walter and NHCOLLers-

The options are scraping the gummy stuff off, solvents,
heat, or extreme cold.  Moderate heat should be the
easiest, least hazardous method, if it works.

Depending on the adhesives, warming them up
might loosen their grip a bit, Empty a cabinet.  Since
both brands are made of sheet metal, playing the jet
of hot air from a hair dryer, onto the weatherstrip
supports, from the inside, should warm up the glue
fairly quickly.  Excessively high temperatures applied
directly on the foam rubber side, might melt the seals
into an icky mess. Heating for too long might bake the
glue to hardness.  So experiment carefully on a small
area first.

Cheers,
-Sam Sumida
Avinet
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At 02:58 PM 2/22/2008, you wrote:
>I want to remove the old dry and cracked rubber seals from the doors 
>on several ancient Interior Steel and Lane brand museum cabinets.............