Cleaning Electronics with Sugar 121
legoburner writes "Instructables.com has an article on removing logos from your PDAs or Cell Phones using sugar. Basically, the sugar crystals are strong enough to remove the logo (sticker), but are too soft to scratch the casing leaving it unscathed. The article has many pictures of the process as well as a thorough walkthrough. Let the rebranding of all your electronics begin!"
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The only difference is that she doesn't remove scratches, she inflicts them.
Maybe not so useful in this context
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Try the scouring pad on the back of a cheap foam+scouring pad from the dollar store. Because they're so cheap, they're really soft - which is what you want.
Or you can just breathe on them and peel them off - keep breathing on it as you pull - the moisture in your breathe breaks the adhesive bond. You should be able to pull the logo off a car that way on a hot day.
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One sweet PDA? (Score:5, Funny)
Samsung vs. sugar 1 - 0 (Score:2, Informative)
My sweet cell phone now has sweet scratches and the logo's still there.
So use only the most fragile sugar you can find.
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Hm... (Score:1, Insightful)
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I suppose this is why he uses tape to cover other parts than the ones he's cleaning
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Which then, of course, requires suguar to remove the tape residue... Clearly a plot by the Mexican sugar industry.
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Sweet (Score:5, Funny)
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Anyone else more interested in the (Score:5, Funny)
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pour some sugar on me.... (Score:1, Interesting)
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Umm, to remove some tacky crap that some moron stuck on it?
See? (Score:5, Funny)
See? I've always told my mom that nothing bad was going to happen because of me eating candy over my keyboard. It even keeps it clean!
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(from the parents signature, for those who have them disabled)
I don't even know where to begin...
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I never noticed before that replying to comments strips away the signatures. Why is that anyway? You hear that slashdot?
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My guess is because if you are replying to a signature, it's most likely off-topic. Unless someone's sig happens to apply to the discussion at hand.
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I wish I knew sooner (Score:3, Funny)
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Careful doing this (Score:5, Interesting)
but if you've got a 'chromed' phone/PDA (particularly with a color), you may find yourself scratching off
the background color as well.
Sometimes the logos are actually printed in 'negative', where the background color 'is' the print and the
logo is negative space.
Ob. Simpsons quote (Score:1, Funny)
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Hmm (Score:4, Funny)
My hands are stiiicky...
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Much easier way... (Score:3, Informative)
Goo Gone (Score:2)
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In other news... (Score:2)
Cleaning your PDA with sugar?! (Score:2)
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Baking soda (Score:2, Informative)
But I thought... (Score:2)
And those sticky label ion my laptop? (Score:3, Interesting)
I hate those things.
Re:And those sticky label ion my laptop? (Score:4, Informative)
It's especially useful for notebooks due to the sheer number of the things that they put on them.
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Apply just a little more than a four year old would, and then rub in a circular motion.
When the sticky is gone, remove the peanut butter with a damp cloth.
This works because the peanut butter has both oil and water based solvents in it.
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Apply just a little more than a four year old would, and then rub in a circular motion.
A four-year-old would use three tubs of peanut butter if he had them. That must be some hideous stickum on those things!
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WD40 (Score:1, Informative)
Now if there was something that could get rid of that logo on my tv that stays in the bottom right corner when I'm on certain channels. That one is really anoyying.
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"Designed for Windows NT" (Score:2)
one of these [guldstrom.se] and left it into the server room toolkit at work.
Xix.
Something else that works (Score:3, Interesting)
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However - some older Compaq cases and some monitor housings are extremely reactive to the citrus. It bubbles away like something from the Alien movies - you have about enough time to utter a choice profanity before the plastic is completely burned away.
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At work some people decided to use something like that (Citrace -- might be "industrial grade") to clean their keyboards. Turned them a nice, inconsistent, chalky grey.
Sugar sounds good but I use to use this method.. (Score:1)
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Re:Sugar sounds good but I use to use this method. (Score:2, Interesting)
Wildcat tape remover (for lightweight labels and tape residue)
Ronsonol lighter fluid (for high-strength dec
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Unless 3M is selling a different glue under the Super 77 label in CA, it's not banned here. You can buy it pretty much anywhere (Home Depot, Staples, art and craft stores, etc). I have several cans, as it's an important structural component in my Zagi [zagi.com].
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Re:Sugar sounds good but I use to use this method. (Score:2)
I don't think that mixing flammable liquids, electronics that heat up enough to vaporize (and possibly even ignite) them, and electric current is neccessarily a very good idea. Especially since lighter fluid works well as a cleaner because it's a dissolver, and many such dissolvers are capable of dissolving plastics - like the ones used in el
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1. Use flammable liquids away from flame.
2. Clean with flammable liquids outside (again, away from flame)
3. Turn off the equipment before working with flammable liquids.
4. Make sure equipment doesn't have the smell of the flammable liquid after a reasonable drying time.
If you smell vapors, there is always a possibility of ignition, but you need the right fuel/air ratio to do damage. If you don't smell it on the device, there's not enough vapor there. Of course, as with anything
Electronic Contact Cleaner (Score:1)
Just peel a few milimeters off the edge and spray through the opening. Wait for a few minutes for the spray to diffuse and dissolve the glue. The sticker will peel of by itself.
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Esp clear plastics.
They usually don't melt, just get real brittle and/or crack up.
(Craze)
Blue eraser (Score:1)
Great, that's all I need (Score:2, Funny)
WD40 (Score:1)
Look out for the DMCA Police (Score:1)
Seriously though, I'm not as concerned about the logo prin
No reason for abrasives. (Score:1)
Cut from their site:
Goo Gone safely removes: gum tar crayon fresh paint tree sap oil and grease blood ink asphalt scuff marks tape and tape residue makeup, lipstick and mascara adhesives candle wax kitchen grease shoe polish soap scum bumper stickers duct tape bicycle chain grease
http://www.magicamerican.com/googone.shtml [magicamerican.com]
Poll Suggestion: Favorite Logo Remover? (Score:2, Informative)
Saccharin (Sweet'N Low)
Aspartame (Nutrasweet)
Sucralose (Splenda)
Honey (Bees)
Maple Sugar (Trees)
Sodium Chloride (Salt)
Bitter Sarcasm (CmdrTaco)
I'd go for the CmdrTaco option. But only after applying a sweet sugar coating on the device, letting him lick the tasty sticker off it.
And yes, I realise I will be branded a pervert after this post.
Nice but. (Score:2, Interesting)
Brandalism (Score:5, Insightful)
To take the matter even further to the opposing side, I quote the graffiti artist Banksy, as written in his book "Wall and Piece":
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I would never buy a locked cell phone, but just a brand doesnt bother me too much if there is some price benefit compared to a non-branded phone.
Advertising pays for a big chung of everything we consume, and although we pay that money back when we buy stu
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SoftScrub (Score:2)
Self-cleaning PDA (Score:2)
oil (Score:1)
I've recently discovered that vegetable oil works very well for removing stickers from just about anything: wood, metal, plastic, etc. It doesn't matter what type of vegetable oil. I suppose if you wanted to be pretentious you could use extra virgin olive oil, but any liquid cooking oil seems to work. Peel or scrape off the sticker as best you can, then rub oil on the remaining residue. I usually use a cotton swab and just have to lightly rub the gum or glue a bit with oil and the sticky stuff lifts right o
Smarter way... (Score:2)
If it doesn't breakdown when in contact with water (think: chewing gum), it will when in contact with oils. This goes for everything you've ever come across... from reinvigorating dried-out Playdough, to getting gum out of hair, tree sap out of clothes, and yes, getting stickers, adhesive bandages, and labels off, with nominal effort.
I generally hate
Permanence (Score:2, Funny)