6 Jan
2014
6 Jan
'14
1:21 a.m.
I'm sure many of you reuse medicine bottles for keeping small things like
fasteners, passive electronic components, etc. I'm sure you also will
throw away lots of bottles rather than peeling off the labels because the
process can be slow and leave messy partially-delaminated paper, and
stickum all over. Here's something I learned recently from my pharmacist:
A prescription label will come off cleanly if you try to take it off
within a couple days after being stuck on the bottle. So when you get
your meds home, take the label off, stick it on your forehead, then put it
back on the bottle. When the bottle is empty, the label will peel off
cleanly and easily. Skin oils do the magic.
This is also helpful for more secure destruction of the label.
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
6 Jan
6 Jan
2:42 a.m.
[...medicine bottles...]
A prescription label will come off cleanly if you try to take it off
within a couple days after being stuck on the bottle. So [...]
This is also helpful for more secure destruction of
the label.
Fine sandpaper or moral equivalent can also do the trick, removing the
outer surface of the label. If you don't sand down too much, you won't
have to worry about the adhesive, either.
Of course, that assumes your labels work like the ones I've seen. I
mostly end up just ignoring the labels, leaving them on the bottles
when I use them, and/or hang onto them long enough that the adhesive
fails on its own. (Anyone who has access to my small parts collection
I don't care about keeping my prescriptions secret from, though I
recognize that may not be true of everyone..)
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10:10 a.m.
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.
--
Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/
10:49 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
12:29 p.m.
I use paint thinner (the cheap stuff that comes in 1 gallon jugs)--it
takes time, but doesn't bother plastic. Great for removing labels from
old floppies as well. It helps if glossy labels are scuffed up a bit
with sandpaper first to allow the stuff to penetrate.
--Chuck
3:25 p.m.
I used white benzene to free an old commodore box from a lot of duct tape and shipping
notes. Worked perfectly.
//Jacob
6 jan 2014 kl. 18:29 skrev Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com>:
I use paint thinner (the cheap stuff that comes in 1
gallon jugs)--it takes time, but doesn't bother plastic. Great for removing labels
from old floppies as well. It helps if glossy labels are scuffed up a bit with sandpaper
first to allow the stuff to penetrate.
--Chuck
3:30 p.m.
?white? benzene? That sounds like a term for gasoline (?petrol?).
I was talking about benzene, C6H6.
paul
On Jan 6, 2014, at 3:25 PM, Jacob Lindberg <lindberg.jacob at gmail.com> wrote:
I used white benzene to free an old commodore box from
a lot of duct tape and shipping notes. Worked perfectly.
//Jacob
6 jan 2014 kl. 18:29 skrev Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com>:
I use paint thinner (the cheap stuff that comes
in 1 gallon jugs)--it takes time, but doesn't bother plastic. Great for removing
labels from old floppies as well. It helps if glossy labels are scuffed up a bit with
sandpaper first to allow the stuff to penetrate.
--Chuck
5:31 p.m.
On 01/06/2014 12:30 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
?white? benzene? That sounds like a term for gasoline
(?petrol?).
I was talking about benzene, C6H6.
paul
On Jan 6, 2014, at 3:25 PM, Jacob Lindberg <lindberg.jacob at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I used white benzene to free an old commodore box from a lot of
> duct tape and shipping notes. Worked perfectly.
The general-purpose (read: light kerosene/paraffin oil) stuff is
sometimes spelled "benzine" so as not to confuse it with the potent
benzene carcinogen (C6h6).
--Chuck
7 Jan
7 Jan
9:54 a.m.
I looked for a translation of the text on the bottle swedish->english and "white
benzene" came up (amongst others), but perhaps i picked the wrong one.
Directly translated the text on the bottle says "Chemically purified benzine".
//Jacob
6 jan 2014 kl. 21:30 skrev Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net>:
?white? benzene? That sounds like a term for gasoline
(?petrol?).
I was talking about benzene, C6H6.
paul
On Jan 6, 2014, at 3:25 PM, Jacob Lindberg <lindberg.jacob at gmail.com> wrote:
I used white benzene to free an old commodore box
from a lot of duct tape and shipping notes. Worked perfectly.
//Jacob
6 jan 2014 kl. 18:29 skrev Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com>:
I use paint thinner (the cheap stuff that comes
in 1 gallon jugs)--it takes time, but doesn't bother plastic. Great for removing
labels from old floppies as well. It helps if glossy labels are scuffed up a bit with
sandpaper first to allow the stuff to penetrate.
--Chuck
10:10 a.m.
Directly translated the text on the bottle says
"Chemically purified
benzine".
In English, "benzine" and "benzene" often (usually?) refer to
different
things; if Swedish does something similar, that could be contributing
to confusion here.
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11:34 a.m.
I don?t know Swedish, but ?benzine? in Dutch, and ?Benzin? in German, means
petrol/gasoline (the stuff you feed to cars, if they have an Otto cycle engine). The
substance I mentioned was earlier known as ?benzol? in various European languages, but
that?s misleading because it?s not an alcohol.
paul
On Jan 7, 2014, at 9:54 AM, Jacob Lindberg <lindberg.jacob at gmail.com> wrote:
I looked for a translation of the text on the bottle
swedish->english and "white benzene" came up (amongst others), but perhaps i
picked the wrong one.
Directly translated the text on the bottle says "Chemically purified benzine".
//Jacob
6 jan 2014 kl. 21:30 skrev Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net>:
?white? benzene? That sounds like a term for
gasoline (?petrol?).
I was talking about benzene, C6H6.
paul
On Jan 6, 2014, at 3:25 PM, Jacob Lindberg <lindberg.jacob at gmail.com> wrote:
I used white benzene to free an old commodore box
from a lot of duct tape and shipping notes. Worked perfectly.
//Jacob
6 jan 2014 kl. 18:29 skrev Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com>:
I use paint thinner (the cheap stuff that comes
in 1 gallon jugs)--it takes time, but doesn't bother plastic. Great for removing
labels from old floppies as well. It helps if glossy labels are scuffed up a bit with
sandpaper first to allow the stuff to penetrate.
--Chuck
13 Jan
13 Jan
4:29 p.m.
tis 2014-01-07 klockan 15:54 +0100 skrev Jacob Lindberg:
I looked for a translation of the text on the bottle
swedish->english and "white benzene" came up (amongst others), but perhaps i
picked the wrong one.
Directly translated the text on the bottle says "Chemically purified benzine".
//Jacob
Apotekets fl?ckbortagningsbensin ?
In that case :
pure petrol
pure gas (pure as in no additives as for example that which is nowadays
added to leadfree gas and which makes the fuel unhealthy or ethanol)
"Apotekets fl?ckborttagningsmedel = cloth cleaning petrol, made for and
sold by Apoteksbolaget, the swedish governments drug dealing entity of
old"
5:11 p.m.
Nej, Gripen - kemiskt ren bensin.
13 jan 2014 kl. 22:29 skrev Stefan Skoglund <stefan.skoglund at agj.net>:
tis 2014-01-07 klockan 15:54 +0100 skrev Jacob
Lindberg:
I looked for a translation of the text on the
bottle swedish->english and "white benzene" came up (amongst others), but
perhaps i picked the wrong one.
Directly translated the text on the bottle says "Chemically purified benzine".
//Jacob
Apotekets fl?ckbortagningsbensin ?
In that case :
pure petrol
pure gas (pure as in no additives as for example that which is nowadays
added to leadfree gas and which makes the fuel unhealthy or ethanol)
"Apotekets fl?ckborttagningsmedel = cloth cleaning petrol, made for and
sold by Apoteksbolaget, the swedish governments drug dealing entity of
old"
6:04 p.m.
On 01/13/2014 01:29 PM, Stefan Skoglund wrote:
tis 2014-01-07 klockan 15:54 +0100 skrev Jacob
Lindberg:
All petroleum fractions of varying weight. Ultra-pure (triple filtered)
lamp oil should do as well.
--Chuck
I looked for a translation of the text on the
bottle swedish->english and "white benzene" came up (amongst others), but
perhaps i picked the wrong one.
Directly translated the text on the bottle says "Chemically purified benzine".
//Jacob
Apotekets fl?ckbortagningsbensin ?
In that case :
pure petrol
pure gas (pure as in no additives as for example that which is nowadays
added to leadfree gas and which makes the fuel unhealthy or ethanol)
"Apotekets fl?ckborttagningsmedel = cloth cleaning petrol, made for and
sold by Apoteksbolaget, the swedish governments drug dealing entity of
old" 
6 Jan
6 Jan
3:31 a.m.
I've had luck heating them with a hair dryer, then I can burn the label and
either use or recycle the bottle.
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:21 AM, David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu>wrote:
I'm sure many of you reuse medicine bottles for keeping small things like
fasteners, passive electronic components, etc. I'm sure you also will
throw away lots of bottles rather than peeling off the labels because the
process can be slow and leave messy partially-delaminated paper, and
stickum all over. Here's something I learned recently from my pharmacist:
A prescription label will come off cleanly if you try to take it off within
a couple days after being stuck on the bottle. So when you get your meds
home, take the label off, stick it on your forehead, then put it back on
the bottle. When the bottle is empty, the label will peel off cleanly and
easily. Skin oils do the magic.
This is also helpful for more secure destruction of the label.
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
10:07 a.m.
I use googone.
Dwight
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Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 02:31:19 -0600
Subject: Re: things in medicine bottles
From: useddec at gmail.com
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
I've had luck heating them with a hair dryer, then I can burn the label and
either use or recycle the bottle.
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:21 AM, David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu>wrote:
>
> I'm sure many of you reuse medicine bottles for keeping small things like
> fasteners, passive electronic components, etc. I'm sure you also will
> throw away lots of bottles rather than peeling off the labels because the
> process can be slow and leave messy partially-delaminated paper, and
> stickum all over. Here's something I learned recently from my pharmacist:
> A prescription label will come off cleanly if you try to take it off within
> a couple days after being stuck on the bottle. So when you get your meds
> home, take the label off, stick it on your forehead, then put it back on
> the bottle. When the bottle is empty, the label will peel off cleanly and
> easily. Skin oils do the magic.
>
> This is also helpful for more secure destruction of the label.
>
> --
> David Griffith
> dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
>
10:29 a.m.
On Jan 6, 2014, at 1:21 AM, David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu> wrote:
I'm sure many of you reuse medicine bottles for keeping small things like fasteners,
passive electronic components, etc. I'm sure you also will throw away lots of bottles
rather than peeling off the labels because the process can be slow and leave messy
partially-delaminated paper, and stickum all over. Here's something I learned
recently from my pharmacist: A prescription label will come off cleanly if you try to take
it off within a couple days after being stuck on the bottle. So when you get your meds
home, take the label off, stick it on your forehead, then put it back on the bottle. When
the bottle is empty, the label will peel off cleanly and easily. Skin oils do the magic.
This is also helpful for more secure destruction of the label.
For things that you can soak, PBW (Powdered Brewery Wash) gets off all
KINDS of things you wouldn't expect to be able to easily remove. Aside
from normal cleaning, I give beer bottles an overnight
soak in the
stuff to cleanly remove the labels and adhesive in preparation for
receiving homebrew. If you need to do a whole bunch of medicine
bottles or the like at once, it can be a relatively headache-free way
to do the job, as long as your items can withstand a soak.
- Dave
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