Plastidip explodes? HELP!

[HedgehogOutdoors]

Well, honestly that's the only thing I can think of when I woke up this morning. Some of you may have seen that I painted a TRD emblem a while back, so I glued it into my plastidipped grille with some Loctite glue last night, everything was fine, looked good. Woke up this morning, white splatters EVERYWHERE, bumper, grille, emblem. I don't know if the glue didn't like the plastidip, or what happened. I can rub it off of the plastidip no problem, but it won't come off the emblem with water or alcohol. Any ideas? Here's what it looks like:

 

[20034RunnerV84x2]

Chemical reaction?

 

[20034RunnerV84x2]

Oh a try goo gone.... If not throw it away and buy another from eBay.

 

[HedgehogOutdoors]

Chemical reaction?

Oh a try goo gone.... If not throw it away and buy another from eBay.

I'm thinking it was a chemical reaction, I'll try some household cleaner on it, if that doesn't work I'll rip it off and redip the grille.

 

[rebelbowtie]

That's weird, I looked up the product data sheet for plasti dip and i didn't see any chemical reactivity. You can take a look here

http://www.plastidip.com/docs/plastidip_uv.pdf

 

[ChildrenOfBodom]

Loctite... super glue?

Super glue is notorious for leaving white residue everywhere.

 

[Dawg4Runner]

Hahaha...You basically just fingerprinted your grill. Super glue, otherwise known as Cyanoacrylate ester has been used for locating latent fingerprints on evidence items since the late 70's. The fumes from the Cyanoacrylate chemically react with amino acids from fingerprints and other components like potassium, sodium and chlorine. When they react with these components they become "plastic". On glass or metal objects like firearms and shell casings you can remove the residue with acetone. But acetone or any other solvent that will dissolve the residue will probably damage your grill. Just sand it and paint over it.

Cyanoacrylate fuming

 

[HedgehogOutdoors]

That's weird, I looked up the product data sheet for plasti dip and i didn't see any chemical reactivity. You can take a look here

http://www.plastidip.com/docs/plastidip_uv.pdf

Well that's kind of strange, oh well.

Loctite... super glue?

Super glue is notorious for leaving white residue everywhere.

But why has it splattered is why I am concerned, I ran a bead along the tops and bottom of the emblem, not everywhere else, it even managed to leave white spots on the very front of the grille, so somehow it travelled up and around a curve.

The fumes from the Cyanoacrylate chemically react with amino acids from fingerprints...

I'm thinking that it may have reacted with water spots from rain/washing, do you think that could have done it?

 

[Dawg4Runner]

I'm thinking that it may have reacted with water spots from rain/washing, do you think that could have done it?

Yep, lots of components in rain/wash water or just pollutants that it could have reacted to.

 

[HedgehogOutdoors]

Yep, lots of components in rain/wash water or just pollutants that it could have reacted to.

So what do I use next time so I don't have this same issue?

 

[ChildrenOfBodom]

Use epoxy, Loctite makes great Epoxy mixer cups. The bond will kick super glue out of the water.

I make it a point to never use super glue anywhere on my truck at all, for this reason. I once super glued a roof rack end cap and regretted it.

 

[Dawg4Runner]

Use epoxy

That^^^

 

[20034RunnerV84x2]

Use epoxy, Loctite makes great Epoxy mixer cups. The bond will kick super glue out of the water.

I make it a point to never use super glue anywhere on my truck at all, for this reason. I once super glued a roof rack end cap and regretted it.

You think epoxy would work for reinstallig my SR5 badges on the side of the doors without harming the paint?

 

[ChildrenOfBodom]

You think epoxy would work for reinstallig my SR5 badges on the side of the doors without harming the paint?

noooooooooooo, don't apply epoxy to anything you don't want permanent.

Use some thin double stick tape, cut to fit.

 

[HedgehogOutdoors]

Well, tomorrow I'm asking my auto and chem. teachers what to do, I'll print out pictures and let you all know what was suggested, and whether or not it works.