Cleaning adhesive from an apron
The "new" apron following cleaning
Having got over the initial shock of my stupidity I made enquiries on RGP as to the best way of removing the rest of the adhesive from my apron. The answers were as varied as they were helpful and I finished off with the following recommendations:
- Goo Gone
- WD 40
- Novus 2
- Vegetable Oil
- Lighter fuel
- Petroleum Ether (cleaning solvent)
So I tried most of them.
At the end of the day, I managed to remove the adhesive, but I think it must have reacted with the silk screening below it, because when I removed the adhesive some of the colour from the silk screening was also removed. There were also patches where it was as if a top layer of silk screen had been removed leaving exposed “sticky” patches. Very strange.
If I were to ever do this again, I would address the cleaning in the following order (in order of aggressiveness):
- vegetable oil
- WD 40
- Novus 2
- Goo Gone
- Petroleum ether
Middle graphic of apron following cleaning