I can’t for the life of me get this darn masking off of the PG acrylic!!! I’ve tried gorillla tape, soaking it and using a plastic kitchen scraper (still waiting for my plastic razors from Amazon).
I’m planning on making more of these tracing mats and don’t want to spend hours on this.
That’s quite strange. All the masking I’ve had has been a bit hard to get started, but it peels clean off. You may want to contact support, it’s possible there was a manufacturing defect.
I had some very old 1/2" acrylic that was very difficult to remove the mask. I let it soak in some Googone (found at hardware stores) which is a citrus cleaner and is what they use at schools to clean all kinds of sticky stuff off. It washes off well.
But this Proofgrade masking shouldn’t do that. I have never had masking stick like that from Glowforge. Recent purchase? Might be a Problems and Support issue here.
I have some year-old Proofgrade clear acrylic and the masking is kinda weird on those sheets too. It won’t come off in one clean piece, and sometimes the paper separates from the adhesive. It might just be the age of those sheets for me, IDK.
I have some citrus wipes I will try. If that doesn’t work I will get some GooGone. Thank you! I’m surprised this happened as I just received this acrylic.
Honestly, since it’s PG, I wouldn’t waste time on trying a million different things. I’d just leave it to Problems & Support. I think it’s likely they’ll send you a new piece.