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   SgianDubh | Mar 30, 2006 01:30pm | #1

   Goo-off of or Goo-gon will shift it-- I can't recall the exact name of the stuff, but those names are close. In the US you can find it at places like Lowes and Home Depot.

    It's not easy to lift the adhesive, but this stuff will do it if you keep the adhesive damp with it and give the stuff time to work. Test it on an inconspicuous area or mocked up sample of the fault first. Slainte.

   Richard Jones Furniture

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   LeeGrindinger | Mar 30, 2006 06:51pm | #4

   It's "Goof Off", Sgian. I'm shocked you don't remember a term so close to your heart.Hah, hah, ha...Lee

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   SgianDubh | Mar 30, 2006 06:57pm | #5

   Ah, Goof Off. That's it. It was there on the tip of my tongue Lee, but at the time of writing I was skiving from something or other and the brain wasn't really in gear. Slainte.Richard Jones Furniture

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   wrongwaydr | Mar 30, 2006 09:31pm | #8

   Thanks for the advise.  I appreciate your reply.

   Don

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   jagwah | Mar 30, 2006 04:19pm | #2

   There are several 3m blue tape varieties. I use a 3-m ,I forget the particular name,  that the paper inner core is orange in color. There is a lacquer safe green one as well. But these cost quite a bit. Better luck on future projects.

    

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   wrongwaydr | Mar 30, 2006 09:33pm | #9

   Thanks, I think I just left it on too long.

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   John_D | Mar 30, 2006 09:36pm | #11

   I've used tape (hair of the dog), just stick it on and pull it off, over and over (that's how I clean the residue off CD and DVD cases).  You'd want to be cautious so as not to remove any of your finish, though...My goal is for my work to outlast me.  Expect my joinery to get simpler as time goes by.

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   JohnWW | Mar 30, 2006 06:43pm | #3

   Naphtha is an effective solvent for tape residue and shouldn't affect the lacquer, but test it before you try it on the finished piece.

   John W.

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   wrongwaydr | Mar 30, 2006 09:35pm | #10

   Naptha, I think your right.  I read something like that researching this problem.  Thanks for the reply.

   Don

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   forestgirl | Mar 30, 2006 07:19pm | #6

   You might want to try (on a practice piece) "DeGlue Goo."  I keep it around for hardened glue drips, it will not hurt a finish (according to the package) and it works great on waterbased glue, so it might work on adhesive also.  Marketed primarily to clean up glue and dismantle joints, IIRC.

   forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-) 
   

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   wrongwaydr | Mar 30, 2006 09:29pm | #7

   Thank you for your time.  I will give it a try.

   Don

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   RW | Apr 02, 2006 07:55am | #12

   I think I have bad news. You used the 3m painters tape, not the blue / orange core "designer" - which isnt necessarily lacquer safe anyway. Its not a residue. Unless your lacquer is a precat. Then ignore the rest. In the future, that $7 a roll lacquer tape will probably seem really worthwhile.

   The blue tape adhesive, whatever it is, softens the lacquer and leaves an imprint of the tape on it. (Ever read about not putting soft squishy plastic things on a lacquered tabletop?) Same idea. No goof off will remove it since it's imprinted on the finish. I've seen it several times in new construction since they spray all the trim with regular lacquer usually, and really all you can do is lightly sand it if the imprint is very large and shoot it again.

   Sorry. But you're probably just going to get frustrated and wonder why the goof off isn't doing anything.

   "Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think -- there are no little things" - Bruce Barton

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   wrongwaydr | Apr 02, 2006 10:24am | #13

   I did use the painters tape as you thought.  But the Goof Off worked OK except for dulling the finish.  I will try buffing it out with some steel wool and wax, maybe rotten stone. 

   So I wonder what is 'Precat' that you mentioned?  I just don't know (learning as I go).

   Thank you for your response and I liked your quote.

          Don