6 Jan
2014
6 Jan
'14
7:49 a.m.
On Jan 6, 2014, at 10:10 AM, Mark J. Blair <nf6x at nf6x.net> wrote:
I've been lucky in that my pharmacists have been using labels that peel off pretty
easily after I've finished the bottle and let it sit around for a while. I know that
wasn't always the case.
An adhesives expert friend of ours recommended what she uses: WD-40. It is not fast, but
it does a good job getting the adhesive to soften enough to come off. And it doesn?t seem
to bother any commonly used plastic.
For metal or glass or ceramic ? stuff that doesn?t mind nasty solvents ? I always use
laquer thinner. I suspect it?s the toluene that?s one of the components of that mix that
does the job; I used to use xylene before I found that laquer thinner works just as well
without the nasty persistent smell of xylene.
When I was a kid, we had benzene around the house for this sort of thing, but that?s
forbidden by the PC police these days.
paul