What's your method for cleaning tape snot?

Three pages to clean a blade? Seriously?
Just pour yourself three or four fingers of Whisky in the biggest glass you have.
While sipping soak your sleeve and clean damn blade.
Lets make this thread the longest on this forum. Shall we? Can we? I believe we can. We just need to be persistent and inovative.
I have seen an advertisement on tv about 'Vanish' and how it removes all stains. Here you go.
 
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The best stuff I have used for removing tape residue is eucalyptus oil. Just a couple drops on paper towel and it comes straight off. I'm not sure whether it is commonly available everywhere but where I am you can get it in pretty much any grocery or department store.
 
TheOne45 said:
Three pages to clean a blade? Seriously?
Just pour yourself three or four fingers of Whisky in the biggest glass you have.
While sipping soak your sleeve and clean damn blade.
Lets make this thread the longest on this forum. Shall we? Can we? I believe we can. We just need to be persistent and inovative.
I have seen an advertisement on tv about 'Vanish' and how it removes all stains. Here you go.
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you have to figure 40 people are going to have 40 ideas they want to share.
Then I'm going to respond to half of them.
3 pages is easy.

Also, I find it extremely objectionable that you would use any amount of whisky in a capacity extending beyond a libation.
 
As long as we're making the topic longer...

You know what works a lot of the time for tape residue removal? More tape.

You take a piece of tape and stick it on the tape residue and then pull the tape off. Repeat a few more times and the tape glue is gone. It works best with duct tape, I think.
 
Ballistol for everything at all times!

Blades, guns, frames, scales, the sky is the limit.

(but really, it’s food safe and will get the gunk off, just leave it on the blade for a few mins)
 
Naptha. (Lighter fluid).

This is the way. It removes adhesive residue from metal and glass without damage. Tape, stickers etc. Evaporates completely. If you are worried about it with food just wipe it with rubbing alcohol afterwards.

Old furniture store trick I learned working for my uncle as a young teenager.
 
Goo Gone (just did it in fact, to clean today's packaging tape residue off my Victorinox Huntsman). Afterwards, I washed the blade with soap/water.
 
EngrSorenson said:
Do you piss windex, too?
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Fun Facts:

A primary ingredient in the original Windex formula was ammonia, which by itself is a common cleaning agent.

Urine contains ammonia, and when the urine is concentrated, the smell of ammonia can be easily recognized.

Urine itself has actually been used to clean a variety of things in the past, most notably clothing and teeth.
 
Guy McVer said:
Fun Facts:

A primary ingredient in the original Windex formula was ammonia, which by itself is a common cleaning agent.

Urine contains ammonia, and when the urine is concentrated, the smell of ammonia can be easily recognized.

Urine itself has actually been used to clean a variety of things in the past, most notably clothing and teeth.
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But how does it taste?
 
EngrSorenson said:
But how does it taste?
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My go to is rubbing alcohol, 99% if I have it around.

Sometimes I remove the tape snot with some duct tape. The tape snot tends to adhere better to the duct tape (or tape of your choice) better steel so when you pull off the tape the snot comes with it.

For really stubborn snot I use synthetic oil of wintergreen. Smells great, but you need to be careful with plastics it will dissolve some of them.
 
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