Scrape off as much as you can with a good puddy knife or gasket scraper and then apply
a combination of mineral spirits and elbow grease to finish the job. I have used this process numerous times to clean various sealers and body fillers from my shop floor. Regards Larry Stansifer Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Sun Tzu. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2007 11:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] removing tar idea if you like Ohmaha Steaks, order some. You will get a package of dry ice in it. On Sat, 14 Jul 2007, Edward Przybylek wrote: > Hi Lenny, > > Call a carpet store and ask where you can get the spray for removing > gum from carpeting. It's designed to freeze gum when it is applied. > This makes the gum brittle and easy to remove from carpeting. It will > probably do the same thing for the tar. > > Take care, > Ed > > > _____ > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Lenny McHugh > Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 9:38 PM > To: Handyman-Blind > Subject: [BlindHandyMan] removing tar idea > > > > Today I had a rubber roof installed on my back porch. At the top of > the steps there is one glob of tar or roof cement. It is on the top > concrete step where I will probably step in it when the sun heats it > up and makes it soft. Also my guide dog often lays there. To remove I > have a few ideas wonder if there is a better way. I don't want to > scrape and use paint thinner I think that would create a bigger mess. > My ideas are to freeze it and use a wire brush attachment in my drill and > have the shop vac collecting the stuff. > To freeze I thought about dry ice if it is available in a fairly small > quantity. Or using a can of air this will freeze if I hold the nozzle very > close or last resort pile ice cubes. > Any ideas? > Lenny http://www.geocitie <http://www.geocities.com/lenny_mchugh/> > s.com/lenny_mchugh/ > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions >From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ If you would like to join the Blind Computing list, then visit the following address for more information: http://jaws-users.com/mailman/listinfo/blind-computing_jaws- users.com For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links -- BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS ------------------------------------------------------ Teach Infowest Spam Trap if this mail (ID 108911943) is spam: Spam: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=108911943&m=a613 65264e64&c=s Not spam: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=108911943&m=a613 65264e64&c=n Forget vote: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=108911943&m=a613 65264e64&c=f ------------------------------------------------------ END-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS
