I see that there has been mention on this site by another member of soaking the glass panel in warm soapy water and this then allows the old tape to be removed more easily. Anyone else tried this method? As you can tell, I'm rather paranoid about damaging the paint and graphite coating!

There is a cleaner for price stickers... smells like citrus oil. Works fast and perfect.

Alkohol and paint thinner are not the right material to clean ist. The paint can resist the thinner, the graphit coating does not.

I use Loctite 480, a elastic black rubber cyanid glue. Perfect for it... we use it for glass repairs. 

its very difficult not to scratch the glass panels while scraping the glue off. I used lamp oil and make a basket from aluminum foil to soak the panels in it for a hour. The little scratches i covered with black paint from an airbrush. I used also 6 mm double sided foam tape. It sticks really well. I placed the plastic rims on the 9500 first (I stick it with painters tape) and then i placed the panels on them. My first attempt was to put the glass on the rimss first but after tht i could not slide them on the 9500 for unkown reason. With the described method you can outline the rims with the doors from the ctape and cd. Remeber that the longer rims front and back are diffrent!

good luck

Only reason I can think of is that you had top and bottom panels the wrong way round as you actually mentioned - with glass panel upside down you would have to be extra careful where you put them - because of the panel-screw recess..

white spirit / turps worked for me with a gentle finger rub followeed by kitchen tissue soaked in turps

salut

tony

Same here Tony, worked well enough for me if a bit messy!

Thanks for all the help. Much appreciated.
I've got the glass panel cleaned up now and ready for the next stage of mounting. I used a Citrus degreaser. Applied this to the old sticky tape using a fine art brush. Let it sit for a few minutes. Then I could scrape the tape away quite easily with my fingernail. Any last residue then cleaned off with a cloth sprayed with the degreaser. Despite being very careful I still managed to get a few small hairfine scratches in the paint. Easily fixed by holding the panel up to a light and applying a black permanent marker to them.

I've bought some Loctite 480 to glue the glass in, but now have second thoughts about using it versus double sided tape. Pro's and con's to either method.

All this work is part of a restore job on my BC9500. Have already done full cap and opamp upgrade as well as all belts and fix for the classic brake arm issue on the tape deck. Will post some pictures soon.

I'm sure there has been a discussion on here about what tape to use and a link to where you can get it.

Stoobie