Re: Peanut butter and sticky stuff

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

But what do you do about the squirrels following you around?


"Charles Booth" <chasbo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| 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.