Removing mailing label gunk

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Tue Sep 22 09:18:33 1998

>> What's good stuff to remove the gunk without melting the plastic?

An intriguing topic. Short-term, computer pin-feed mailing labels
can be removed with a heat gun. Use very light strokes, you just
want to warm the rubbery glue. Long-term, I've found that the
glue hardens to nasty stuff no longer dissolved in Goo-gone and
the like. You need to chip it off. The heat gun trick works with
old floppy disk labels, too. Pulling very, very, very slowly
does the trick. Aside from Goo-gone and other solvents, other people
have suggested using cooking oil, which here in the States tends
to mean corn oil.

- John
Received on Tue Sep 22 1998 - 09:18:33 BST