It can be difficult removing some kinds of sticky labels some of the adhesive
used on these is incredibly difficult to get off. You can buy a dedicated product
in this example we've got Maplins label remover and that normally does a very good
job of removing the levels and the adhesive. We're also going to try out a couple
more things. We're going to try out a Zinsser Universal Degreaser and a few
people have recommended WD-40 and somebody also recommended methylated spirits.
Now originally I first started using this because at work we have some
knit rollers they used to get covered in a very strong adhesive and we tried
WD-40 we tried methylated spirits and it wouldn't touch it, as soon as we
tried this we removed the adhesive immediately. So that's why I actually
started using this product. So we're going to test out the four products but
just to start off with I'm just going to use this plastic scraper. I'll just show
you how difficult it is to remove one of these labels using nothing. You can see
that you can get hold of it and it does come off in little bits. Once
these are stuck they do stick very well indeed.
If you look there you can actually see
that the adhesive is still there although the paper has been removed.
So removing them with nothing at all is very difficult. So to start off with we are
going to try the WD-40. I'm just going to spray that all over the label
So I'll just give that a couple of minutes to soak in and then we'll try
removing it. Whilst that is soaking in I'm just going to put the label remover on the label at the end there,
and we'll allow that to soak in for a couple of minutes as well.
I'm now going to try the Zinsser Universal Degreaser.
Then the one in the middle we'll just try some methylated spirits.
We will now have a go at removing some of these. We'll start off with the one
that we sprayed with WD-40. You can see that that hasn't done too bad of a job
with this particular adheshive. So that did enable us to remove most of that label
pretty easily. We'll now try the one that's been sprayed with the label remover.
You can see that that came off there very easily, it's come off in one piece
and it hasn't left any adhesive behind whatsoever.
So that is why I always prefer using the dedicated label remover. It does tend to
do a very good job especially when you get some adhesives that stick really,
really strongly. We are now going to try the Zinsser Universal Degreaser and you
can see that that has just made a mess of the label really, so that is now coming
off in tiny little bits. So although that is a very good product for degreasing
it's not much good at removing labels. We will now try the methylated
spirits, and again that's not done much it's just making the label turn into
small pieces. So that's really not much good at all at removing labels just
going to make your job a lot harder. I'm sure that somebody recently said
that you could use furniture polish as a level remover so I'm also going to try
that I'll just spray that on there,
I'm just going to leave that for a couple of
minutes and then I'll try to remove the label. So that's had a few minutes now to
soak in, I'll now see if I can remove that label.
You can see that it's just breaking it up into small pieces again.
Obviously the clear winner in that demonstration was the dedicated label
remover. In some circumstances you may be able to use other products to remove the
labels depending on how good the adhesive is but I've always found that the level
remover works a lot better than anything else I have tried including wd-40.
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