Batboard

Several months ago I got eight NOS NiMH short Saber batteries, and each of them had that green sticker on the front. Every time you pull the sticker off you're left with these couple of globs of adhesive residue. Today I decided to clean at least one of them up, and on the way to the basement where I would have tried alcohol and paint thinner I decided, just for the hell of it, to try 409 Cleaner. The 409 worked, and didn't damage the plastic or the color. Took some hard rubbing, but the adhesive finally came off.

Beats the hell out of messing with alcohol and/or paint thinner.

i normally use lighter fluid, the kind that goes in a Zippo, not a Webber..lol

never had an issue with it, but i may have been just lucky.

HI Tom:

Another thing you can do.

GErt some heavy Duty 3M Clear tape or eq.

Then place the sticky tape over the residue
left over by the Sticker, Placing the sticky side
on the residue enough times and removing it
several time , will in most case remove the
residue left by the other sticker.

It will also leave the plasitic in it original condition.

If one rubs hard enough on the surface, you can
mar the finish on some of these surfaces.

Most plastics will react to MEK, Toulene, Thinners, Nail Polish
and strong solvents.

Another neat trick is to " heat up " the area where the
residue is left ! But not hot enough to melt the plastic !

And repeat the above proceedure.

Monty

Monty

Use "Goo Gone." It is specifically made for this purpose.

Larry

Compact Disc cleaning fluid seems to work pretty well too.

Wow, many approaches to this age old problem. I usually use Monty's
approach. I've also used WD-40 quite a bit cleaning up housings and
finishing with Armor All.

Somewhat similar to the WD-40 I use the "Solder Seal" Brand - Silicone Spray Lubricant to remove adhesive. Works great and leaves a protective shine.

Eddie
N4UMJ

Lamp-oil does the job! Not harmfull for plastic !


Ed

The Amway "Mint Condition" bug and tar remover works great
Makes the radio (or Battery) look new too!

Fowler

I should have added in the opening post on this thread that there's another cleaner that I will NOT use on radio plastic. It's Goof Off, and it ruins the gray plastic on MT500 radios; seems to bleach it somehow. I haven't tried it on Saber black plastic and I won't, for obvious reasons.

Tried the 409 again twice since writing the first message above, and it seems that the longer the cleaner is on the adhesive the better it works, and it still doesn't affect the plastic in any way.

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ASTROMODAT wrote:Use "Goo Gone." It is specifically made for this purpose.

Larry

Goo Gone gets my vote! That stuffs awesome....

I use Goo Gone on a regular basis, only once have I ever had it discolor anything. Another thing that seems to work is regular car wax. Really! you can wax the sticky stuff off in clumps!

If I remember right goof off is for paint not for adhesives. That goof off is some REALLY strong stuff!

I've got an old police car I'm trying to remove the decal adhesive with. What does everyone recommend for that?

It looks like the people that removed the lettering from my Bronco used the rough side of a sponge and then waxed the crap out of it. Did you try goo gone? Or what about a carnuba wax brick? That got some nasty residue off my old explorer.

Tom in D.C. wrote:I should have added in the opening post on this thread that there's another cleaner that I will NOT use on radio plastic. It's Goof Off, and it ruins the gray plastic on MT500 radios; seems to bleach it somehow. I haven't tried it on Saber black plastic and I won't, for obvious reasons.

Note that "Goof Off" is a different product than "Goo Gone" recommended by others on this thread. Goof Off is intended to clean up dried up mistakes one makes while painting. Goo Gone is intended to be used for removing sticky, tarry, substances. Folks sometimes confuse the two; make sure you buy the right one. This is the correct product: http://www.magicamerican.com/googone.shtml

I use Goo Gone on my radios all the time. Sometimes you may have to follow up with some Fantastik or 409 as Goo Gone may leave a little bit of residue, but it comes off pretty easily. I haven't found anything better at cleaining up old labels, stickers etc.

--z

Goof Off is made for removing adhesives, marking pen marks, crayon marks etc and works good for that. I'm not sure I would use it on radio plastics tho.

Also it contains Xylene, so you don't want to breathe the fumes.

Ken

Cheapest and best stuff I've found is 99% rubbing alchole. Walgreens has a 16oz bottle for 99 cents. I have to remove these silver warrenty stickers that say VOID is removed. 99% Isopropyl Alcohol works the best and doesn't harm most plastics

Give it a try