50+ year old inspection sticker removal

Robert thran

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Hey guys I have a pretty clean candy red original paint ct70 k-0 I plan on getting running while I’m waiting for some parts for my other full restore jobs..my question is does anyone have any trick ways other than a heat gun and a plastic scraper to remove a Florida inspection sticker from 1972-1973? It feels really hard and near impregnated into the paint so I’m debating if I should just leave it alone..I’m sure it will leave a darker red area if I do get it off so the jurys out leaving it alone or trying to remove it..if it were in better shape I would just leave it for nostalgia reasons but to me it looks kinda crappy on there..the rest of the bikes paint is amazingly good for its age and I have new factory Honda frame decals..I think way to good to repaint and restore..like I’ve said before there only original paint once! You can see on chain guard where there was a striker that said. “village Honda Tampa Florida “ it was peeling and installed a little crooked so I got it off successfully with a heat gun…Any input would be great….
 

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Heat always works for me. Then you just have to clean off the sticky. Having one spot with too much color, is better that one spot with not enough color.

Tripod

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Regardless of how its removed, you already know its going to leave a suntan. Candy ruby red always cleans up nice and the oem paint is very resilient.

That bike is super nice, please dont repaint it.
 

Robert thran

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Regardless of how its removed, you already know its going to leave a suntan. Candy ruby red always cleans up nice and the oem paint is very resilient.

That bike is super nice, please dont repaint it.
Don’t worry I would never…this bike must have been taken care of and rode easy (1895 miles) an was unmolested other than having a super late model seat that didn’t latch and majorly bent fork lowers..but its the first motor I’ve EVER taken apart (50 or 70) that had zero ware on the shift fork pins and the orignal piston rings had like new end gap..I didn’t measure it but it looked to be about 16 thousands..valves had no cuping..cam chain still had a long way to go to be considered bad..the motor could have easily run but it looked really bad from sitting and I figured it would be slap wore out like most….if you look at the swingarm it even looks the chain was never adusted !! Crazy for something this old! I plan on keeping all the orignal parts married to this bike, wheel hubs, rims, carb,motor ( except the parts FedEx lost and junked) all chrome had bad rust..all aluminum was powdered an corroded. For the first time I had the center cases an head vapor blasted just to keep it more like when leaving the factory..nothing but the best for this baby or at least what I can find an afford!
 

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ktheake

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Looks great - I would stay away from laquer thinners - too aggressive.
The low mile bikes are just excellent most times - I do blow them in and try my best to improve them without a complete respray but I have resprayed a complete like your piece and been very satisfied I did Other than someone stating it's not original anymore .
Continue sir - I'm sure the same thing happens everywhere - you value the originality of it but you know they POP pretty nice when redone .
 

Robert thran

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Looks great - I would stay away from laquer thinners - too aggressive.
The low mile bikes are just excellent most times - I do blow them in and try my best to improve them without a complete respray but I have resprayed a complete like your piece and been very satisfied I did Other than someone stating it's not original anymore .
Continue sir - I'm sure the same thing happens everywhere - you value the originality of it but you know they POP pretty nice when redone .
Yes I agree lacquer thinner would be too much..I’m presently soaking in gas now then I’ll try a little heat..like tripod said I’m sure it will have a major sun tan in that spot but will be better than old inspection sticker..?
 

Robert thran

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P.s. just realized that old laquer doesn’t like gas…I got it out of there and hope it didn’t screw it up!! I’ll heat it with a heat gun later when the paint hardens back up…scary!!
 

Robert thran

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Success!! Kirrbby was right again … good old heat gun peeled it right off..then used goo gone to remove the glue. Sunburns not even that bad… thanks for all the help an advice.
 

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