Im still refurbing towers, but rather than pinching unstickered rings from towers as I have been to get a new tower, Im now into the dregs and having to remove stickers.
Thank you Barbara for the tip of using a hair dryer, this certainly works for some types of stickers (especially the jelly bean ones
I have however taken to putting the rings in the oven for ten minutes at 100C rather than dealing with the noise of the hairdryer.Some older ones seem to be paper and gum based which come off with a soaking in a bucket, but I have a few troublesome ones, from tubz vending they are certainly older stickers, and once their top plastic cellophane layer has peeled off, there is an unpeelable load of printed label gunk left behind, that is really difficult to shift as it breaks up when you scratch it and you cant peel it.
Does anyone have any tips as to the best way to get these off, they primarily seem to be Mixed Bon Bons and Fizzy Cola Bottles with a yellow background. And no doubt are quite a number of years old. I also have some rings with Yellow soft plastic labels with red writing on saying Twist and the product name, no pictures they seem to come off in pieces as they stretch, again any tips would be great.
I found out white spirit is great at getting the sticky stuff off, after the stickers are peeled, and is much cheaper than sticky stuff remover, but need some better weather before I do any more as it stinks the house out if you do it inside.
Cheers
P.S. If you do use my oven method, dont leave the rings in there too long, lost one to melting, otherwise it works well for most plastic type labels.
Just also found something really funny, loads of rings have multiple labels on them as the products have changed, but uncovered some of the yellow labels with red writing 'twist to select' and the product name overwritten in black marker with the new product - 'class' LOL. Cant imagine why the vendor was on the second hand market. . . . .
Multi-tasking at it's best.
