I know about this stuff called "Goo Gone" I believe, but I was just wondering if it would work on a sticker on the back label of a game? I know it might take off the actual label, but was just wondering if anybody has tried it before. Thanks!
I know about this stuff called "Goo Gone" I believe, but I was just wondering if it would work on a sticker on the back label of a game? I know it might take off the actual label, but was just wondering if anybody has tried it before. Thanks!
I use Goo Gone a lot, but you want to try to get as much of the sticker off as possible first. The Goo Gone just helps get rid of the sticky residue - if you put it right on the sticker, it just smears the colors around.
I'm not sure about trying to get a sticker off of the label though, you'd have to be really precise about what you were doing, otherwise you'll get the gunk off but the label colors will run.
Can I just go to my local store, and purchase a bottle of this stuff, or do I have to get it online?
Home Depot has Goo Gone in the register aisles. However, it's not a magic product, its simply a good solvent, which doesn't destroy everything.
What I do all the time is drop a LITTLE Goo Gone, let the sticker soak it up. Then I take a hair blow dryer and heat up the sticker, which softens it. That allows me to take it off in one piece, usually. Then I use a dab or two of Goo Gone on a paper towel, and rub the residue of old glue off. The success rate on Cartridges, labels, and CD/DVD cases is very high for me.
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i was actually on a sticker removing binge last night. even very old crusty ingrained stickers can be removed successfully without any solvent if you just take a little bit of time. Rushing is a sure fire way to rip the sticker and if its on a label to rip that as well. I removed well over 100 stickers last night and damaged only a single label (old blockbuster n64 rental, the sticker even warned trying to remove it would ruin the label but i was just too defiant to listen haha.) using my method of starting in a corner and peeling ever sooooo slowly even allows me to take off the under the jacket dvd case style spine stickers that gamestop/ebgames loves to use without ripping the cover art. I wish all used game stores would switch to plastic stickers as theyre just so much easier to remove. I find that googone is good for removing the residue under the sticker, i've never tried using it to remove the sticker itself though.
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Do not use goo gone on CD cases (PS1 type) as it will dullen the plastic.
Something in that plastic reacts with goo gone.
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Using a hair dryer to heat up stickers works pretty good.
I wouldn't want to use any solvent when a label is involved.
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There is an "orange citrus" version of Goo Gone that isn't harmful to plastics. It kinda smells decent, too. I started using that after the old stuff ate a jewel case on me.
But will Glue Gone or Citrus Orange remove warranty stickers?
Those are a pain in the ass to remove.
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I bought a superscope complete in box off of ebay and the mastermind behind the sale decided that the superscope box also doubled as a shipping box and slapped the UPS label right on there and sent it off. No wrapping or packing at all. Anyway i complained and he refused to help me so i tried to remove the label. I slowly peeled and used a pipette with 90% iso alcohol to chase the peeling label. It left minimal resude and next to no damage.
Uh, all of you who suggest a hairdryer, what are you thinking? Didn't the OP say there was a sticker on the back label? You'll heat the glue on the sticker but you'll also heat up the label's glue too.
I also had some luck with high grade alcohol and patience on paper boxes. The result is nowhere near perfect (I would not try this on a "mint" box), but at least my FF3 looks way better without a giant price tag covering 15% of the box. What where they thinking back in the days, putting stickers straight on a game selling for 70-80 euro...
I'm considering to order one of the goo-gone pens over ebay and try it out. Have anyone tried it with stickers on snes or nes boxes?
I always use rubbing alcohol and also scrubbing bubbles.
pour the rubbing alochol on a tisue then rub on the sticker then try to remove.. If nothing spray scrubbing bubbles on a tisue the rub on the label. Sometimes a mixture of both rubbing alcohol and scrubbing together on the tisue works.
Let me know if this works for you.
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If the sticker situation is really bad, remember that you can probably swap the rear case half off, and swap it with one from a common game (IE: you have a copy of final fantasy for NES with a sticker on the rear label, you can swap the rear of the cart with a mint super mario bros one.
Lighter Fluid is the best sticker-on-plastic solvent I've ever used.
Of course, it's volatile, so I wouldn't reccomend using it around open flames ... and once the label is gone you would do well to wash the area where the lighter fluid was with a bit of warm soap and water.
But seriously, it'll take an NES label off right down to the plastic with minimal effort.
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I recently acquired an Atari 2600 that came with a nice little case that made it look like an old record player but it had a bunch of tape all over the cover and I tried to take it off by hand first and that did'nt do much. I then tried some Duct brand adhesive remover, which is much like the Cirtus Magic stuff that's oil based and non abrasive and that didn't work too well. I then tried the Goo Gone and that just messed up the whole cover. It basically made the cover look like the hood of a card that spent the past 20 years in someone's backyard that lives in Seattle.
Goo Gone does a great job but be careful with what you use it on. My first choice is always the Cirtus, non abrasive stuff though.
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