Removing sticker residue from hardshell case

[bigben55]

I took in an AmStd Stray on trade, with a ton of stickers all over the Fender hardshell case, a black, plastic regular Fender one. I got all them ripped and scraped off, but need remove the adhesive residue left by some of them. I need to remove that. What chemical/method works best without screwing up the case? I've physically scraped off everything scrapeable.

 

[MrCairo46]

Goof off , real tough dried glue use acetone. WIpe on, let set and wipe off with clean towel

 

[jvin248]

.

Goof off will melt the plastic of some cases leaving a sticky goo mess. Caution.

This is the order I use:
-water
-ammonia & water 50/50 mix
-denatured alcohol
-turpentine (or maybe wd40)
-goof off
-"ELO" car model stripper

.

 

[Buckocaster51]

Goo Gone

 

[Frodebro]

Naptha thinner works very well on sticker residue, and is pretty gentle on most surfaces. I've used it on tolex many, many times.

 

[Kojer]

Goo gone.

 

[1300 E Valencia]

WD-40. It's not as flammable as naphtha (lighter fluid).
Still flammable, just not as. It won't remove paint. I've soaked pedal bottom plates overnight for really bad velcro goo.

For your case, I'd spray it direct or on paper towels and rub it in gently to get it soaked in.

Then, use clean paper towels to remove the residue. Wipe a small area, then move to a unused part of the towel to pick up another section.

Otherwise, it becomes easy to get the towel overloaded and then you're just moving the dissolved goo around and around.

It won't leave impossible-to-remove slippery lube behind. Wipe it off, then wipe down with common household white vinegar for the squeaky clean.

 

[Sparky2]

I agree.

WD-40.
It's the stuff of life.

 

[Boil]

I agree.

WD-40.
It's the stuff of life.

it's a crappy lubricant but its a great cleaner.

 

[Deeve]

WD-40 solvent

 

[KokoTele]

WD-40 first. Goo gone is great but occasionally reacts with things. Naptha doesn't work as well as either of them, but it's what I have handiest so it's what I use most.

 

[Sparky2]

When I lived on a southern military base in the 1980's, the rumor began going around among the young Army wives (this was before the internet) that WD-40, when rubbed on your boobies, would make them grow.

Sure enough, fellow after fellow reported, around the water cooler, that they were regularly rubbing their wife's titulars down with that slick, sweet smelling stuff.

It was a fun and crazy summer, and I can tell you how many times I stood in line at the PX or commissary with a variety of fair young maidens, and caught the aroma of WD-40 coming off of them.

 

[RoyBGood]

Brilliant! ^

For the problem at hand, Lighter Fluid works for me.

 

[Mahalo]

A single malt whiskey. One for the goo, one for you, continue until you see no more goo.

 

[1293]

Don't use acetone as suggested above. Many moons ago, I was an analytical development chemist. There was a fly buzzing around the lab. I shot him with what I thought was a MeOH wash bottle. It was acetone. Melted a dot matrix printer.

 

[brenn]

Don't use acetone as suggested above. Many moons ago, I was an analytical development chemist. There was a fly buzzing around the lab. I shot him with what I thought was a MeOH wash bottle. It was acetone. Melted a dot matrix printer.

Yep. I seem to recall we use acetone to melt the ends of plastic binding together, so I imagine it can't be good for plastic cases.

 

[koolaide]

No doubt DO NOT use Acetone. It will remove the paint!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Wallo Tweed]

it's a crappy lubricant but its a great cleaner.

I agree that it is good for cleaning, but it's not a lubricant. It is the 40th formula used in an attempt to make a product to displace water.

 

[E5RSY]

For tolex (not painted surfaces) I've used brake cleaner or similar, like Birchwood-Casey's "Gun Scrubber" product.

The gentlest thing that works pretty well is cooking oil, believe it, or not. The sticker glue absorbs it and breaks down and can be rubbed off with a fingertip and wiped up with a paper towel. Obviously, don't use it on a porous surface that could absorb it and be stained by it.

 

[dsutton24]

Stickers can have a variety of adhesives, WD-40 works great on most of them. Some adhesives shrug that stuff off, and regular household cleaners like Fantastic work on them. Some experimentation my be necessary.