Re: Peanut butter and sticky stuff

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

So will the blue jays, chipmunks and dem dam potatoes.



"Mike Sokoly" <secure15@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:TLADf.1669$d95.295@xxxxxxxxxxx
| Out here in wild Long Island the deer will lick or hump you to death
| over a gob of PB - 'cause the elitists won't hear of exterminating them!
| (squirrels will just eat your soffits and fascia boards for dinner!)
| Of course-wood is preferable over vinyl.
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| Crash Gordon wrote:
| > But what do you do about the squirrels following you around?
| >
| >
| > "Charles Booth" <chasbo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
| > news:d6itt15c9aljmk504uvfe1sc0pip2rr7gl@xxxxxxxxxx
| > | The message re vinyl windows and sticky tape removal remined me of a
| > | trick I learned at my garden club many years ago.
| > |
| > | One of the club members was demonstrating her craft: making Christmas
| > | wreaths with wire and pine branches, adorned with red boughs, etc.
| > |
| > | At the end of her demonstration her hands were covered with spots of
| > | sticky pine pitch.  We then saw her open up a bottle of peanut butter
| > | and apply several teaspoons of it to her hands.  She began the usual
| > | rubbing we all do when washing our hands, and a few moments later
| > | after wiping her hands with a paper towel, her hands were free of the
| > | pitch!
| > |
| > | I have used peanut butter many times to clean my hands of sticky stuff
| > | that I previously removed with laquer thinner, a solvent I used for
| > | cleaning my foil brushes. Not the best stuff for human skin.
| > |
| > | To remove  paper labels with a sticky back, I will use hot water to
| > | turn the paper into mush, remove the mush, and then apply a small
| > | amount of peanut butter to the sticky stuff, and, with a circular
| > | motion with cloth or plastic dish washing pad, I work the peanut
| > | butter into the sticky stuff, and its soon gone..
| > |
| > | If you find sticky stuff on something, and you know that strong
| > | solvents, mineral spirits, etc., may mar the surface of that
| > | something, try peanut butter.  It's the oil in the pb that does the
| > | trick.  Especially good for motor oil/grease that gets on your
| > | fingernails, cuticles, etc.
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