Windshield Repair Forum

hello guys, i'm new on here.

i had the unfortunate experience of splashing pit filler on someones paint a few days ago. it is not coming out. it's a few drops across the top. what happened was i was squeezing some out of the bottle, when it was clogged and i squeezed too hard, then just popped open all over the windshield and across the top and sides of this car.

any ideas on how to remove it without damaging the paint? it is totally hardened now. the chemist from where i get my supplies said there's no way unless the paint is damaged to remove the pit filler.

well, any ideas are appreciated, the customer wants to see something happen soon.


thanks!

I think you are pretty well hosed dude! you can try a razor and buff the dull spot

chipper,
I am so sorry to hear that. It is very unfortunate.
I just called a friend of mine that owns a body shop and asked him what one might do for this problem. He said try putting a little laquer thinner on a rag and rub it mildly. He stated not the store bought Laquer Thinner, it is a laquer thinner for automotive painting. You can get it at any automotive paint supplier. Dont rub too hard because you can dull the paint.
I hope you can remove this. I am praying for you.
Please let us know how you make out?

chipper, my wife uses fingernail polish remover to remove her solar nails, I think its plane old acetone. Maybe call your local nail shop or where ever you get your nails done and see what they use to remove solar nails. It might work.

the problem with the laquer thinner or acetone is it will also eat the paint and the resin is harder so short of doin a eraser wet sand on the spot only until you are down to the clear and then trying the thinner or acetone to get the remaining I dont know

I would first try a hard plastic in the shape of a puddy knife, with a very thin edge.I think they use it to smooth out wall paper,it will break the resin away without any damage to the paint.Good luck!

i guess brent is the guy to ask on this but it seems to me that if resin bonds to glass it certainly is going to bond to porous paint?

How about wart remover?

Don't take me serious about the wart remover......but I know for a fact it works on TATTOOS

GlassStarz;31857 wrote:i guess brent is the guy to ask on this but it seems to me that if resin bonds to glass it certainly is going to bond to porous paint?

There may be a way, but with the exception of wart remover I have tried everything mentioned so far with no luck, and worse yet, in most cases the paint was damaged and the resin remained. Just to be sure we borrowed painted body part from the body shop next door and cured a few drops of resin on it. They were unable to remove the resin without destroying the paint around the resin.

I really hope I am proved wrong here, but the only insurance claim I ever filed in my 20+ years of repairing windshields was due to a single drop of cured pit filler that the local body shops could not remove.

I would say that this is an argument for the use of a hood protector, but I have already been crucified by my fellow forum members for suggesting that in the past.