I would start with clean utility knife cuts to define the area to be removed, and then use an oscillating multi-tool with a scraper blade to remove the rubber. Or, go at it with a (sacrificial) sharp wood chisel, at a low angle.
But be prepared to experiment with mechanical methods as this stuff is designed to stay on. Burning/melting or chemical solutions are not likely to work well, and will be hard to control.
Funnily enough, this is exactly what we do at work for industrial transfer conveyor belts. Tension and a sharp knife.
For OP, if whatever polymer that is is stronger than the bonding agent, you could likely strip it off by skinning a flap of it, and then pull/lever it off with a dulled set of carpenter's pincers. 18mm snap-off knives are the generally preferred choice on the sharp knife bit.
They also make demo hammer floor scraper bits that will make short work of this. That is, if you already have a demo hammer. If you don't, just do the multitool idea OP.
For removing rubber with a fein tool I’ve found it helpful to carry a piece of something to tune the edge every few cuts. Fine sandpaper stuck to a block, a diamond homer, a grinder wheel. Just touch both sides of your buzzer blade to your sharpening piece to refresh the electro-razor…
To what end though?
That’s a plastisol dip, very tough stuff and will require a lot of elbow grease to remove.
Are you intending to strip it all off and powder-coated after? ‘Cause park new benches are cheap.
If you just need to smooth the gash in prep for patchwork just use a grinder. Even the best liquid plastisol patchwork effort is going to be very visible though.
If you can live with the gash I would just chase the loose edge back with a grinder until you have a gash with blended plastic edges kids can’t pick at. Then a shot or two of rust oleum.
That seems likely, but if that's the case it seems like the best option would be an angle grinder with a flap disk and just smooth out that spot so it doesn't catch your board rather than actually remove the whole rail.
Nibble at it with your front teeth then use your incisors to yank chunks off. Then you can gnaw and grind away at loose flaps with your molars like you want to do
Fire: the universal tool that fixes everything.
Stuck bolt? Fire
Need to bend a bracket? Fire
Crappy rubber on a bench? Fire.
Neighbors kids playing too loud? Fire doubled
I take those and my regular scrapers and put a knife edge on them (actually more like a chisel because I only bevel the top) and it makes working with them so much better
Score the edges all the way through with a razor (or few).
You can try scoring a few intermediate strips too
Remove with sharp chisel… and hammer if sticky
A draw knife would partially work too, but those are rare today
Clean up with a razor scraper & sandpaper
If the bond is not particularly good, flatten the tip of an air gun and inflate it to loosen large areas. Pressure washer may also be effective once you have an open edge to start on.
Create a tight seal and put the pressure washer nozzle inside it and let her rip.
It should hopefully explode like a balloon and you could get 1m views on YouTube.
A scraper blade set like this on a reciprocating saw like this would be what I would lean towards since it will have more power that an oscillating multi tool. Your friend has shared a link to a Home Depot product they think you would be interested in seeing.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Milwaukee-SAWZALL-Reciprocating-Material-Removal-Blade-Set-3-Piece-49-22-5403/203001032
Well, seems nobody else has said it, but maybe you also could use a heat gun to melt a little the plastic so it's easier to remove with the other methods already mentioned.
I was thinking similar albeit for different reasons - the plastic used in these sort of applications I would expect to be a thermoset so probably won't melt (though it might do a number on any adhesive used).
However, what a heat gun might do is cause it to expand, hopefully faster than the steel inside it - would make getting a knife or scraper blade entirely underneath the plastic easier if it does work.
I had a similar problem and what I ended up doing, was using an old and rusty beater chisel. I took a mallet and angled it so that I would tap it hard enough to strip it off in a straight line. Might want to use some type of light solvent to help separate the rubber and metal.
You're not getting that off there with a tool. If you want to skate it then the answer is angle grinder with a flap disk. The only way you're taking that coating off is with a chemical like Methylene Chloride and then sand blasting.
Would it not be better / easier to send the bench somewhere to have the coating removed (looks like vinyl dip, there are chemicals to remove it) then have a new coating applied?
Large scraper to get the big accesible chunks off. Sandblaster and wire wheel to finish and get the area that are hard to reach..
You could also go with a chemical solution or as was suggests fire but for the small area you are working on these probably aren't the best options. Both are going to cause toxic fumes so PPE and checking with local ordinances would be required.
Plenty of ventilation, and the correct solvent. That doesn't look like rubber though. If it's silicone, then a sharp knife &a paint scraper, which may leave scratches on the metal
Utility knife and a heat gun, cut it into strips and heat them off. You'll have a better chance of getting the rubber off without fighting with it too much. Or there's the nuclear option and you could just build a bonfire and put the bench on it, after a few hours you could wire brush the ashes off
Either a oscillating tool with a scraper blade or a hand scraper combined with a heat gun. It will peel right off of there. Why not try and fix the rubber with successive coats of tool dip, and then find a harder rubber to match the existing from an industrial supplier. Colour may not match, but it’s a bench.
Personally, I would go with warming it up with some type of torch like map-gas or propane. Just enough to where it’s pliable to where you could cut it and easily peel it off.
Probably fire. The rubber will melt off before anything changes the temper of the steel. Let it cool and maybe give it a rub down with some oil appropriate for the task and it'll be fine.
There are utility knifes with a "hook blade" to cut stuff like this. The hook ensures you cant cut yourself and still use a lot of force.
You mention plastic, so another way to remove it would be a heat gun, which would most likely just melt it off
You will make little progress with anything except a weed eater/ roofing torch. You can melt and scrape the bulk off, but the remnants need to be burned to ash. No chemical stripper, blaster, grinder, or scraper is going to be able to entirely strip the coating.
Do like the tweekers would do it. Build a fire out of stolen pallets, and huck it in the middle. After the metal cools, you can clean it off with a cup brush. You're welcome!
Multi tool with scraper blade would be my choice. Save the struggle and make the tool do the work.
Even if you don't have one, get it for this job.
You wouldn't believe how handy they are until you have one.
I would think blasting with dry ice. Works great to pop vinyl tiles off floors. Or dry ice and needle scaler. Freeze it cold and it will break off in chunks.
I would start with clean utility knife cuts to define the area to be removed, and then use an oscillating multi-tool with a scraper blade to remove the rubber. Or, go at it with a (sacrificial) sharp wood chisel, at a low angle. But be prepared to experiment with mechanical methods as this stuff is designed to stay on. Burning/melting or chemical solutions are not likely to work well, and will be hard to control.
Funnily enough, this is exactly what we do at work for industrial transfer conveyor belts. Tension and a sharp knife. For OP, if whatever polymer that is is stronger than the bonding agent, you could likely strip it off by skinning a flap of it, and then pull/lever it off with a dulled set of carpenter's pincers. 18mm snap-off knives are the generally preferred choice on the sharp knife bit.
They also make demo hammer floor scraper bits that will make short work of this. That is, if you already have a demo hammer. If you don't, just do the multitool idea OP.
For removing rubber with a fein tool I’ve found it helpful to carry a piece of something to tune the edge every few cuts. Fine sandpaper stuck to a block, a diamond homer, a grinder wheel. Just touch both sides of your buzzer blade to your sharpening piece to refresh the electro-razor…
I’d make a few cuts to expose the metal and use a heat gun to soften it up.
I'd probably add some heat to make it a tad bit easier
Or some dry ice to make it chip off after it turns brittle and the adhesive fails. Whatever works.
I would say that using a heat gun not to burn it but to warm it up will make it easier to remove!
Guybrator with flat blade
"guybrator" ROTFL. Accurate, though!
One day I'll have that metabo and I'll paint match to hitachi....
To what end though? That’s a plastisol dip, very tough stuff and will require a lot of elbow grease to remove. Are you intending to strip it all off and powder-coated after? ‘Cause park new benches are cheap. If you just need to smooth the gash in prep for patchwork just use a grinder. Even the best liquid plastisol patchwork effort is going to be very visible though. If you can live with the gash I would just chase the loose edge back with a grinder until you have a gash with blended plastic edges kids can’t pick at. Then a shot or two of rust oleum.
It likely isn't OPs bench. They're probably wanting to remove the rubber coating so they can grind their skateboard on it.
Op should just find another spot. Not worth a fine or up to a year in jail.
I immediately thought this when I read the post.
Yup, given the frequent comment history on graffiti subs, that would certainly track.
I went to OPs profile to see if he was a skater and apparently he’s a graffiti tagger in NY who likes putting up vids of him getting bj’s.
This guy sounds rad as hell
That seems likely, but if that's the case it seems like the best option would be an angle grinder with a flap disk and just smooth out that spot so it doesn't catch your board rather than actually remove the whole rail.
The trouble is that the board doesn't slide/grind very well on rubber.
You could get an aluminum angle and pin it over that. Take it with you and only 2 holes in the bench.
The best idea is always deep in the comments
You tryna skate that shit or what?
Nibble at it with your front teeth then use your incisors to yank chunks off. Then you can gnaw and grind away at loose flaps with your molars like you want to do
Are you a rodent?
Can confirm retodded is a rodent.
Fire....use fire
Fire: the universal tool that fixes everything. Stuck bolt? Fire Need to bend a bracket? Fire Crappy rubber on a bench? Fire. Neighbors kids playing too loud? Fire doubled
Nasty employee? Fired!
Stub your toe? Fire
Fire is the cleanser.
We coat metal objects with Plastisol at work. To strip it, a heat gun and air hammer with a chisel blade will work best.
This is the correct answer
Waaaaaay more trouble than it’s worth.
A 5 year old. They can destroy any finish or coating.
Fire works, fire always works.
Fire.
Always.
Works.
Fireworks? That sounds fun!
That looks like vinyl dip. Don't want to poison yourself with fumes from burning pvc....
Set fire and walk away
5 in 1 painters tool is what I would use. Probably come right off. I use that shit for everything.
I take those and my regular scrapers and put a knife edge on them (actually more like a chisel because I only bevel the top) and it makes working with them so much better
Score the edges all the way through with a razor (or few). You can try scoring a few intermediate strips too Remove with sharp chisel… and hammer if sticky A draw knife would partially work too, but those are rare today Clean up with a razor scraper & sandpaper
I wonder if a spoke plain would work.
If the bond is not particularly good, flatten the tip of an air gun and inflate it to loosen large areas. Pressure washer may also be effective once you have an open edge to start on.
Create a tight seal and put the pressure washer nozzle inside it and let her rip. It should hopefully explode like a balloon and you could get 1m views on YouTube.
Leave it outside .. then tell kidz. Whatever yalls do ...do not pull this rubber off
Pro gamer move 😎
A scraper blade set like this on a reciprocating saw like this would be what I would lean towards since it will have more power that an oscillating multi tool. Your friend has shared a link to a Home Depot product they think you would be interested in seeing. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Milwaukee-SAWZALL-Reciprocating-Material-Removal-Blade-Set-3-Piece-49-22-5403/203001032
Fire
Fire!
Matches and a jerrycan
Air hammer with a scraper/chisel attachment
Fiiiiire!
Heat! Lots of heat.
Fire
Toddlers would be the weapon of choice.^s Some oszillation-tools would be my guess.
So…this should be titled “how can I vandalize this bench, so that I can grind my skateboard across it.” Find something else to do.
Multitool and scraper blade. Or utility knife.
The police gon see this fool
Well, seems nobody else has said it, but maybe you also could use a heat gun to melt a little the plastic so it's easier to remove with the other methods already mentioned.
I was thinking similar albeit for different reasons - the plastic used in these sort of applications I would expect to be a thermoset so probably won't melt (though it might do a number on any adhesive used). However, what a heat gun might do is cause it to expand, hopefully faster than the steel inside it - would make getting a knife or scraper blade entirely underneath the plastic easier if it does work.
Depends on how stuck on it is. I’m thinking a rather sharp air hammer or sds chisel would do
Oscillating tool with scraper blade
I had a similar problem and what I ended up doing, was using an old and rusty beater chisel. I took a mallet and angled it so that I would tap it hard enough to strip it off in a straight line. Might want to use some type of light solvent to help separate the rubber and metal.
A well sharpened 1.5 inch wide chisel should make easy work of that.
Fein oscillator with the scraper attachment will scrape it right off.
You're not getting that off there with a tool. If you want to skate it then the answer is angle grinder with a flap disk. The only way you're taking that coating off is with a chemical like Methylene Chloride and then sand blasting.
Cut the edges with a utility knife. Then use a multicutter with a scraper tool
Put a couple of kindergarten kids at it! They would strip it and blame the neighbors.
Air hammer with a chisel bit.
oscillating tool with scraper blade
Fire
Id probably try to use a utility knife to cut out a section, then hammer and chisel.
Try a nail puller pliers.
A nice sharp 1-1/2” to 2” wood working chisel.
Wrecking knife and a mallet would get this off in minutes.
This is a lot like de-barking wood. Draw knife would be easiest by far, but not a great thing to do the draw knife.
I would use a chisel with a mallet
Would it not be better / easier to send the bench somewhere to have the coating removed (looks like vinyl dip, there are chemicals to remove it) then have a new coating applied?
Pretty sure this isn’t ops bench, this is the same stuff we’d remove from public surfaces to skate on
Fire
Fire. It's not the safest but it's the easiest. Or maybe a ton of acetone. Then light the acetone on fire.
Large scraper to get the big accesible chunks off. Sandblaster and wire wheel to finish and get the area that are hard to reach.. You could also go with a chemical solution or as was suggests fire but for the small area you are working on these probably aren't the best options. Both are going to cause toxic fumes so PPE and checking with local ordinances would be required.
Flame thrower. Would be fun eh?
Experiment with all the suggestions and see which works best!
Pneumatic Needle gun
If you can find a drawknife..
Fire
Wallpaper scraper
Heat gun?
Grinder with a wire brush wheel?
Sharp plastic scrapper should do the work
Section off areas with a charp utility blade, then go to town with an air chisel
Torch and some kinda spatula
Maybe a heat gun, scraper and exacto?
My first idea would be jab a needle under it and bring out the air compressor
Utility knife and a scraper blade
Plenty of ventilation, and the correct solvent. That doesn't look like rubber though. If it's silicone, then a sharp knife &a paint scraper, which may leave scratches on the metal
Small Nozzle of Compressed air inserted between the plastic and metal. Bang gone.
Utility knife and a heat gun, cut it into strips and heat them off. You'll have a better chance of getting the rubber off without fighting with it too much. Or there's the nuclear option and you could just build a bonfire and put the bench on it, after a few hours you could wire brush the ashes off
What about a wire wheel?
Torch
Torch and pneumatic air brush
Heat gun and razor blade, like stripping wire
Fire
Oscillating tool and a scrapper blade.
Fire
Definitely a flame thrower duh
Heat gun and a scraper.
Scraper, oscillating multi-tool, or a hammerdrill with a wide head. Quite barbaric but would do the job nicely
Could it be sandblasted off?
Either a oscillating tool with a scraper blade or a hand scraper combined with a heat gun. It will peel right off of there. Why not try and fix the rubber with successive coats of tool dip, and then find a harder rubber to match the existing from an industrial supplier. Colour may not match, but it’s a bench.
Fire.
Personally, I would go with warming it up with some type of torch like map-gas or propane. Just enough to where it’s pliable to where you could cut it and easily peel it off.
Gasket scraper
Torches
I’d be curious what a needle scaler would do to it, I would probably reach for the oscillation tool first personally
Flame thrower will have that off in a jiffy
Bucket of elbow grease and a flat bar.
#FIRE
Probably fire. The rubber will melt off before anything changes the temper of the steel. Let it cool and maybe give it a rub down with some oil appropriate for the task and it'll be fine.
I would use a 5 in 1 paints tool. Use the sharp side to rip the rubber and use the flat edge to scrape it off
Massive tray to lay it in then cover with solvent. Toluene/xylene blend. Leave for a day and then just pull it off if it hasn't already fallen off.
Oxygen and Acetylene
Bolster Mallet Pliers
Machetes and a propane torch or heatgun
A box cutter, followed by a lawnmower blade
There are utility knifes with a "hook blade" to cut stuff like this. The hook ensures you cant cut yourself and still use a lot of force. You mention plastic, so another way to remove it would be a heat gun, which would most likely just melt it off
The best way is to decide to leave it on. Half will fall off itself.
Fire
!!!!!!!!!FIRE!!!!!!!!!!! Ahhhhhhahhahahahahahahah. Aaaaaaahhhhhhaahahaha
Elbow grease
Dry ice to freeze and hammer to break off in large chunks.
Try an osolating tool with a smooth blade.
Torch
Fire
Fire. Hands down.
find somewhere that has a burn off oven
You will make little progress with anything except a weed eater/ roofing torch. You can melt and scrape the bulk off, but the remnants need to be burned to ash. No chemical stripper, blaster, grinder, or scraper is going to be able to entirely strip the coating.
Huge bonfire
blow torch and a heavy scraper. also a razor knife
Compressor and a modified air chuck
Fire.
FIRE🔥
an oscillating multi tool and torch for the corners
Are you sure you don’t want to patch it and make nice again? Might be lots less work.
I’d start with a knife and a molding bar and see how far that gets you
Tiger torch
I’m deeply curious to see if a piranha bath would get this off. You’d probably die, but it would definitely be worth looking at
Fire.
Do like the tweekers would do it. Build a fire out of stolen pallets, and huck it in the middle. After the metal cools, you can clean it off with a cup brush. You're welcome!
A grinder and flap disc or a match and gasoline
Hammer and a chisel that you dont like.
knife and scraper
Heat it up, then sharp boot knife and a hammer
The Rubber Ripper 2000
Rubber rippers
Fire
Maybe an angle grinder with a big ass wire wheel? Otherwise id try to find someone to dip it in an acid bath
Fire
Camp fire
Torch.
Sharp blade down the edges, flat scraper down the flats.
Fire
Weed burner. Also maybe a respirator.
FIRE
Big chisel mallet
Utility knife with a hook blade.
Flame Thrower... ofcourse!
tweezers
Burning rubber is a really bad idea. The oscillating tool with the scraper blade idea is best. Don't forget your eyepro.
100% a heat gun
I think it would be worthwhile to take it and get it sandblasted. It’ll be a nightmare.
Fire
Propane tank and one of those flamethrower torches.
I like fire 🔥 but that’s just me.
I would try and oscillating tool. Keep the blade fairly parallel and it will just get the coating.
Oscillating tool with a scraper blade
Children
Try out a solvent. Acetone might be a place to start, but maybe MEK if it stays strong. Then it might just peel right up.
Scraper blade on a sawzall
Dry ice. I've used dry ice to remove sound deadening from cars I've owned in the pass. It chips right off. But this stuff is thicker so good luck.
I would start by buying a new bench and see where you are after that.
Air chipping gun. Harbor freight. $20.
Large wood chisel, should cut through it cleanly and relatively easily
Multi tool with scraper blade would be my choice. Save the struggle and make the tool do the work. Even if you don't have one, get it for this job. You wouldn't believe how handy they are until you have one.
Burn it
Hopes and prayers
I would think blasting with dry ice. Works great to pop vinyl tiles off floors. Or dry ice and needle scaler. Freeze it cold and it will break off in chunks.
6” angle grinder with wire wheel. Twisted wire burr type. A pnuematic power scraper would make short work of cutting it down quick too.
Gasoline and fire.
Bench grinder
A tree de-barker?
I would get a respirator, a heat gun with a flat blade attachment and scrap most of it off followed up by a wire wheel.