What is the best way of removing baked on masking tape?
The tape has been stuck to glass for a year. The tape pulls off but leaves the glue stuck to the glass.
How can I remove the glue without scratching?
sPoNiX
Sticky stuff remover - available from betterware, I have also seen it in Robert Dyas and Lakeland
Angela
White spirit?
Mark
When all else fails with sticky residues and label glues I find that lighter fluid normally shifts things. May well do the same for masking tape adhesive.
-- Richard Sampson
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A bit of white spirit, and a sharp stanley knife blade used with a scraping action (so the blade is almost parallel to the glass surface, like you're shaving).
Meths.
.andy
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I have found Meths tends not to work.
Use Paraffin to remove the residue, then meths to remove the paraffin .
WD40 worked fine for me after I'd left masking tape on the front window for too long.
Rob.
Start with a house brick, then follow up with a new sheet of glass, some putty, and some blue-tinged air.
PoP
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Hmm. I've not had a problem. Perhaps it depends on the type of adhesive.....
.andy
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Cant help you with the tape problem but wear heavy mitts and that will prvent damage to your skin when you scratch :-) Stuart
It will do - on the whole, most tape/lable adhesives fall into two groups; those soluble in non-polar solvents (white spirit/light oils etc), and those soluble in polar solvents (meths, isopropanol etc.).
My strategy is to try a polar solvent, and if it doesn't work try a non polar one.
Warm soapy water and a cloth.
it was some time ago and the tape was on wood, to be fair. I posted the question here having tried meths and someone responded with the paraffin/meths combination which worked a treat.
If the glue was water soluble, wouldn't the rain remove it?
If rain contained soap, wouldn't we all be nice and clean?
:-)
Cheers,
Andy
LOL!
If you think I'm going out in the paddock in a howling gale and driving rain with an air temp just above 0C (so it is rain not snow) with nothing on you can think again!
Of course for you the southern wussies where it never gets below 5C and three wet snow flakes cause traffic chaos things may be different. B-)
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