[Robotgroup] Clean/polish plastic?

[Def Egge]

Vern,

Butane lighter fluid ... butanol, mostly ... is 
great for removing the gum.  I usually peel off 
as much of the paper as I can (a soak in warm 
water helps loosen the glazed paper front from 
the gummed cellulose fibers).  Then use a little butanol and elbow grease.

Rick and Don can advise on the plastics polishing 
but acrylic blocks, Lexan windshields, and 
headlight covers might respond is wildly different fashion than PETE plastic.


All the best....

Mike


At 11:47  2007-06-11, you wrote:
>Some of you know I've been working on an upcoming article for Nuts and
>Volts magazine .. in the process I used a recycled Peanut Butter jar as
>the chassis. The problem is the jar label was difficult to remove and by
>the time I got rid of all the residue, the plastic was slightly opaqued:
>
>http://www.notepad.org/peanutbutter/images/img_2492.jpg
>
>I was wondering if anyone knows of a magic way to return the original
>clarity to this type of material? If it helps, the type of plastic
>(according to the symbol on the bottom of the jar) is a #1 in a triangle
>with the letters "PETE" under it..?
>
>Vern
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