Removal of decal

[Dr H]

Hello All

Advice needed please.

I'm not a big fan of decals on jackets. I may soon need to remove/severely age a winged star decal on the arm of a horsehide jacket.

My first response would be water/wrinkling and a battery of organic solvents.

Has anybody done this successfully using a different method without damaging the leather underneath?

Thanks

Ian

 

[omarco]

The only slightly useful advice i could offer is that nail polish remover will dissolve these things and so the decal could possibly be removed/aged in that way. However I'm not sure it would react very well with the leather... i should think it would also start stripping colour from the hide too...

i'd be interested to see your results though..

 

[Dr H]

Thanks - that'll be acetone or ethyl acetate.
Some heavy wrinkling in order to crack and chip it and some time under a UV lamp (with the leather masked) to fade it.

 

[Cobblers161]

Whoops, meant to be a pm!

 

[jnlight75]

On a similar note, anybody ever successfully remove the shoulder decal from a repro B-10? On the fabric base, it at least looks to be much harder if not impossible to get off.

 

[Willy McCoy]

Alcohol is the suggested recommendation I believe.

 

[a2jacketpatches]

Solvaset is a decal softener meant to set a decal into a surface, conform with model kit panel lines and detail. Possible it would soften enough to remove as well. Ant hobby shop should have it or it's equivalent.

 

[regius]

I used physics, scotch tape, but be very careful. I was playing with Japanaese horsehide that doesn't have much of a coating to rip off. but i don't think it's gonna work on aniline finished.

 

[CBI]

just wrinkle/crack it off, works every time. No solvents, you want it as dry as possible!

 

[John Lever]

Hello All

Advice needed please.

I'm not a big fan of decals on jackets. I may soon need to remove/severely age a winged star decal on the arm of a horsehide jacket.

My first response would be water/wrinkling and a battery of organic solvents.

Has anybody done this successfully using a different method without damaging the leather underneath?

Thanks

Ian

I would call Ken at Aero he must know the best way to do it.

 

[Dr H]

Thanks all for the advice, I opted to leave it for the next owner and sold it on a few months ago.