Removing adhesive from the back of hot foil dies
Can anyone recommend a good/easy/cheap way of removing the adhesive from the back of hot foil magnesium dies once we’re done with them? At the moment I am ‘scraping’ it off the back of the die with a pallet knife, very messy and time consuming. Is there a solvent we can use?
Thanks in advance.
you can try putting the die in the freezer before scrapping.i don’t like that tape. solvents are even more messy
comes off easy when cold/ wait till heater and die is cool before removing plate. If pried off hot mag will bend/warp.
I don’t use it. I drill and countersink my plates to be screwed to the heaters that I built. Repeat orders allow plate to go back in same place and use same makeready
I use a hair dryer to warm up photopolymer or magnesium plates and then remove them and the adhesive with a paint knife.
I usually warm the tape back up with the hot plate and scrap with a razor blade. Or use some sand paper.
after several heating and freezing cycles. the tape should turn dried out a brittle.you can tell it is getting ready as it should turn darker
it should scrap right of with a single edge, razor paint scrapper
Solvoplast. An adhesive remover used by hospitals, and bookbinders. Available at any drugstore.
Mike Conway, tell us more about the bases you’ve made?
I have the top surface of the heaters drilled and tapped for 8-32 I drill and countersink my mag plates to be screwed to the heater. On my Thomson and C&P the heaters are bolted to the bed of the press, on Heidelberg heater is locked in chase.