{"id":352,"date":"2009-04-30T11:39:01","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T09:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/?p=352"},"modified":"2011-06-15T20:59:38","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T18:59:38","slug":"cleaning-adhesive-off-of-an-apron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/?p=352","title":{"rendered":"Cleaning adhesive from an apron"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_354\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/img_1092_2s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-354\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-354\" title=\"img_1092_2s\" src=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/img_1092_2s-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"The &quot;new&quot; apron following cleaning\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/img_1092_2s-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/img_1092_2s.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The &quot;new&quot; apron following cleaning<\/p><\/div>\n<p>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:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Goo Gone<\/li>\n<li>WD 40<\/li>\n<li>Novus 2<\/li>\n<li>Vegetable Oil<\/li>\n<li>Lighter fuel<\/li>\n<li>Petroleum Ether (cleaning solvent)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So I tried most of them.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;sticky&#8221; patches. Very strange.<\/p>\n<p>If I were to ever do this again, I would address the cleaning in the following order (in order of aggressiveness):<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>vegetable oil<\/li>\n<li>WD 40<\/li>\n<li>Novus 2<\/li>\n<li>Goo Gone<\/li>\n<li>Petroleum ether<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div id=\"attachment_353\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/img_1091s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-353\" class=\"size-full wp-image-353 \" title=\"img_1091s\" src=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/img_1091s.jpg\" alt=\"Middle graphic of apron following cleaning\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/img_1091s.jpg 800w, https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/img_1091s-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-353\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Middle graphic of apron following cleaning<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1721,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions\/1721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}