Any question answered...

What's a really strong, stiff adhesive that comes off with known and readily available solvent?

The situation is I need to mount an accelerometer to the dashboard of my car. It is a metal cube of about 20mm on each edge. It's pretty heavy for its size.

So far I have tried: adhesive velcro; Bostik sticky dots; double-sided adhesive tape; and adhesive foam.

The foam worked best but wasn't sticky enough. What was good about it was that it had some thickness and compressibility, which meant that it filled the gaps nicely between slightly curved dashboard and flat base of sensor.

The dashboard is also some kind of magic slippy plastic material.

Help?!

dashboard is also some kind of magic slippy plastic

There's your trouble. You really need to identify what kind of plastic and use an appropriate activator to get the glue to stick, e.g. https://www.permabond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/POP_TDS.pdf for polypropylene. After that, you can use a regular cyanoacrylate super glue; don't us the rubber toughened one, the brittleness of regular will be your friend when you need to pop the accelerometer off the dash.

Glue only half the area of the bottom of the metal cube and use the curvature to your advantage to leave a gap under the non-glued section into which you can insert an ice scraper when it comes time to pry the two apart.

Fantastic. Many many thanks. This confirms my suspicions and gives me an idea of where to go next.

Acetone as a solvent for removing the cyanoacrylate super glue residue from accelerometer and dash afterward?

Acetone should work fine. It may struggle with residue that has been there for a while.

Cheers.

Use proper acetone from the chemist. Not nail polish remover with all the other shite they put in it.

I’d test a bit of acetone on your dash first, it might well fuck it.

I was going to recommend a blob of Evo Stik. Residue will come off with paint thinners. Again, try a bit of thinners on your dash first in case of dash fuckage.

Have you tried carpet tape? That stuff is pretty sticky.

Sound advice.

I was wondering about using a whole bunch of some appropriate tape. The trick is to find one that will stick to the dash material.

I just bought a couple of rolls of tesa 4289 tubeless tape, which itself is polypropylene, so that might work...

What book is this?

(No I don't have a better quality image.)

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Servo tape might work. It’s used to stick down actuators in radio control things. Bonkers sticky, shock resistant, very firm bond but can be removed. Give the dashboard a very good clean first, maybe isopropyl (test first somewhere discreet)

Have you tried one of these sticky pads? They look useless but it's actually bonkers how sticky they are, but leave no residue when you pull them off.

leave no residue when you pull them off.

This will be a quote from Prince Andrew if he ever gets to court.

Source?

This will be a quote about Prince Andrew

...if it turns out that sweat isn't the only bodily fluid he doesn't excrete.

I reckon he excretes a few extra if anything.

Google "anti slip dashboard mat" or any of your preferred synonyms

I prefer dude/didum.

You’ve been on point this week didum.

Thanks! I've spent enough time looking, to no avail, now I need to know too.
What's the source of your image?

Also worth noting that acetone will soften/dissolve CA glue and it's much cheaper than a dedicated debonder. Not sure what it would do to the dash plastic though.

Edit; should have read posts after yours.

@jontea @Greenbank

Could the mystery book be this?

https://www.waterstones.com/book/american-spy/lauren-wilkinson/9780349700984

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Yep! Well done. I can carry on with my day now.

Amazing. Thank you!

What did you (and others do) to search for it?

I was doing an image search for "yellow book cover" and "yellow book cover red figure" amongst other things.

Thanks! I've spent enough time looking, to no avail, now I need to know too.
What's the source of your image?

A woman in the crowd celebrating at the end of the West Ham game.

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