Removing mailing label gunk

From: Russ Blakeman <rhblake_at_bbtel.com>
Date: Tue Sep 22 11:21:28 1998

Jon Healey wrote:

> Hi Manney,
>
> I frequently buy books that are discounted or second hand.
> These always have annoying old labels on them that are
> a pain to remove. And my goal is to save the books cover
> at the same time (typically these are the glossy style covers
> that are popular for computer books these days).
>
> What I do is remove the majority of the "gunk" either with
> my fingernail or carefully with a pocket knife and then
> I use something with a sticky backing to remove the
> rest. The material with a sticky backing might be the
> label I just removed or scotch tape or a new label I've
> peeled off of some junk mail. You take that stickey
> material and repeatedly (like 50-60 times), stick it
> on the gunk and then peel it off again.

I do the same with floppies but if the adhesive has dried to a hard finsih this
won't work until you soften it and then take it off with a fingernail or other
non cutting tool, like a sticker remover.
Received on Tue Sep 22 1998 - 11:21:28 BST