On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 10:24:39 -0700, "Peter" wrote:

| We are painting the outside of our house and applied masking tape to the
| white painted aluminum window frames to prevent getting the paint on the
| window frames. We forgot to remove the masking tape from the frames of a
| couple of windows on one side of the house after the paint had dried. Now
| the masking tape has dried out and will not just peel off easily. We used
| the plain old beige paper masking tape you see in paint and hardware stores
| everywhere.
|
| Does anyone have any suggestions for what to use to make the masking tape
| easy to remove?
| We have tried paint thinner and rubbing alcohol and neither work.
|
| Any suggestions are appreciated.
|
| Thanks, Peter
|
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|
WD-40 often works for this. Let it soak in a while.