How to remove sticky label from chrome lights?

[Huge]

Oh, and the last time I bought a label removal kit from Misco, the solvent provided was mostly eucalyptus oil. Made the computer room smell lovely.

[fred]

acetone is also used as a varnish thinner. I recently bought 1 litre of it from a specialist fibre glass supplier

[fred]

Cheap ? Its anything but cheap around here

[newshound]

I'm giving up arguing with Tabs.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Things called label removers generally have to be fairly safe on most surfaces. Doubt there are many common solvents which would damage chrome. Assuming chrome on metal, rather than plastic.

[John Rumm]

I think the one I have (ambersil) is some kind of citrus oil... seems to work well.

[Chris Bartram]

[snip]

many of them are Limonene, with a nice orangey smell.

[Andrew]

Foaming PU adhesive gun cleaner is acetone. You get a big can for far less than nail varnish remover prices.

[Andrew]

At a recent funeral, my brother recounted the time when he was 12 and was able to buy concentrated nitric acid and other chemicals at a high st chemist, to experiment with at home. (1960's).

[Bob Eager]

I was buying the same sort of stuff. Same age, same time.

[Bob Eager]

The stuff I have is more like oranges. Works well, then clean it off with IPA.

[pamela]

Some nail varnish removers use ethyl acetate instead of acetone and it is capable of dissolving a wide range of plastics. I found this out the hard way. :(

[The Natural Philosopher]

Glass fibre siuppliers will sell you acetone

I always stock up at 'wings'n'wheels as they generally have a fibreglass supplier on the trade lines..

Thouroughly good day out if the weather is nice

[The Natural Philosopher]

Available all over the place - used a lot on fibre glass work

[tabbypurr]

I see they've changed it to try to improve its performance for other things than water displacement. But it still scores bottom of the tests as lubric ation & penetrating oil, so not one to recommend.

NT

[tabbypurr]

I had a friend that liked to buy, er, things that expand very rapidly as a kid & set them off on the beach. I never saw the point in it myself.

NT

[John Rumm]

Ah, so is that a thinly veiled, "they changed it when I was not looking

- it used to be just white spirit, honest guv!"

Is white spirit an effective water displacement product?

Its a general purpose product. It will not necessarily compete with specialist products in each and every category. However many people value it since its a single can of stuff that in many cases will do the job well enough without needing to keep a wide selection of solvents, cleaners, penetrating oils and lubricants on hand.

[tabbypurr]

I didn't say it was white spirit, I said it was white spirit with a little oil. Putting that in funny language changes nothing.

Ah, marketing talk. It's just oil & solvent, all of us have oil and most of us some sort of solvent.

And it's consistently at the bottom of the performance table, often in the usually doesn't work category as a 'general purpose product.' Love it if you want, I've no time for it.

NT

[John Rumm]

Your words "It's nearly 100% white spirit"

I thought it prudent to point out that it isn't nearly 100% (or even close), and it isn't technically white spirit either (even if it is a similar petroleum distillate solvent).

The "little oil" is actually quite a bit (25%). The quantity of oil per unit volume is in some ways less important, since when using it for lubrication, the purpose of the solvent is to deliver it into position from an aerosol can, and then evaporate, leaving just the oil.

I have some 10W30, and some acetone in the workshop... how is that supposed to help?

Got any links for these performance tables?

I neither love or hate it. However I find it works well enough for some jobs to make it worth keeping a can around.

Fine, but do you suppose you could stop posting nonsense about it?

[tabbypurr]

1. I said it was nearly all white spirit. It was.
2. One performance tested:

If you have tests showing it's of decent quality, let's see them.

NT