removing silicone

[dirk_brijs]

Found an old tank in my storage that I used to use as a Sump/Fuge setup.
I thought it would be the perfect size to set up a small Seahorse cubicle to attach to my system I have now.
The question now is how to remove the baffles without making too many scratches on the outside glass.
Baffles have been connected with Silicone so is there a chemical on the market which dissolves silicone? Dont want to start scratching with little knifes etc again to avoid the outside glass the get all scratched up.

[matthewl04]

you should be able to just use a razor blade and it wont scratch it. Then use rubbing alcohol to rub away the remaining silicone

[Trump]

I use denatured alachol to remove it from the acrylic countertops and stainless steel sinks at our fab shop.

[uncleof6]

Alcohol for a final cleaning, however to really get the silicone off, razor blades, steel wool, and a lot of elbow grease... the glass must be squeaky clean, if planning a re-silicone job. It is time consuming and labor intensive.

[JTL]

Alcohol for a final cleaning, however to really get the silicone off, razor blades, steel wool, and a lot of elbow grease... the glass must be squeaky clean, if planning a re-silicone job. It is time consuming and labor intensive.

I don't recall if I ever told you that I contacted Momentive and they told me that RTV adheres to itself just as good as clean glass. I assume they are only referring to their product.

[uncleof6]

I don't recall if I ever told you that I contacted Momentive and they told me that RTV adheres to itself just as good as clean glass. I assume they are only referring to their product.


It does, however, it does not stick so well to OLD, used silicone. Sorry sad experience in this arena.