Ancient dried tubular glue, removal?
 

I'm about to build up some old ~350g Mavic OR10 rims but the glue that's on there is probably 20 years old. I have no idea how to get it off, or if I even have to? I know it's usually not necessary to remove glue when putting on a new tire but I assumed that was for when the glue on there is still good. Thoughts?

A separate question: the labels are peeling at the edges quite badly. Would super glue be a good choice to pin them back down?

Thanks as always.

I used Goof Off and Acetone to clean my crusty rims once but it was lots of work.

I've heard of good results from a wire wheel on a drill, will go that route next time. Not for carbon rims, of course...

Yes, old sew up glue, remove it .. & finish peeling off the stickers, IMO.

try isopropil alcohol. (rubbing alcohol, electronists alcohol), or acetone. This is a great solvent for glues

goo off... fuel from your car... parafine... or any kind of diluent will do. By the way you can glue over it, nothing it will happen, in a matter of fact the new glu will soft the old one and both will fuse together.

Ok, thanks guys. The instructions for the Conti tires I bought recommend gasoline which I probably won't attempt. My initial idea was wire wheel on a Dremel tool but I thought that might take a while.

Knowing I can just glue over the old stuff is cool. I'll probably just do that. I guess the old glue isn't rock hard, just really firm.

A wire wheel on a bench grinder will clean a rim in just a few seconds, with no dangerous solvents or tiresome scrubbing:

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http://www.os2.dhs.org/~john/rim-cleaner.jpg

Been there, done that, with lacquer thinner. But if a wire wheel will really do it without solvents, and without messing up the rim, maybe that's a better way.

I have used fuel,paint thinner, goo off and a rag... take time because you go hole by hole but you get all the junk out. If the rim has some glue you can just glue over it. If the thing has so much glue that cant even see the hole of the spokes then I would consider give it a good clean and try to take all the dried glue off the rim.

Hope you know what are u doing and you dont put the whole tube of glue in one rim, because you dont need like a lot of glue to get the tubular to stick really well in the rim. Besides, if you put too much glue, is there when problems with messy glue starts. Saw a Einstein many years ago putting one whole tube of glue in the rim and then another tube of glue in the tubular, wait like 4 hours to mount the tubular and then complain that all the time he mounted a tubular he was getting glue all over the house. floor, tubular, hands, hair and clothing. Probably still cant figure it out the problem :D

I usually cut away as much of the glue as possible with a sharp knife first. Aim the knife fairly parallel to the rim and slice at an angle.

Then lacquer thinner has the best cutting power to dissolve that stuff. Only problem is it evaporates quickly. Xylene works almost as well, but doesn't disappear as quickly.