On 06/01/2022 22:23, Turby wrote:
> On 1/4/2022 1:02 AM, Pete Fisher wrote:
>> On 04/01/2022 08:38, sweller wrote:
>>> Pete Fisher wrote:
>>>
>>>> Nothing acts faster (Tm. Anadin) than Plusgas IME
>>>
>>> It's good but I've found the graphite pentrating oil from Toolstation
>>> to be just as effective - and a lot cheaper.
>>>
>>
>> Personal recommendation is always welcome. I shall JFGI.
>>
> I've been collecting plastic tubs, to use for various things. I'm trying
> to take off the labels, but the glue is stubborn. Dish soap, vinegar,
> alcohol, WD40, peanut butter, nothing that Google suggests works.
> What says the FOAK?

White spirit, meths, IPA (isopropyl alcohol, not India Pale Ale).
Depends whether it's white meat or red.

We've been buying skinny sad meals which come in plastic tubs with
wraparound labels. I put them through the dishwasher, pull the labels
off (they're stronger than the glue), and clean the residue off with
white spirit. Strangely, the more things I tidy up by putting them into
tubs, the more things appear that need tidying up by putting them in tubs.

On 08/01/2022 01:28, Bruce Horrocks wrote:
> On 07/01/2022 19:12, geoffC wrote:
>> Turby wrote:
>>
>>> I've been collecting plastic tubs, to use for various things. I'm
>>> trying to take off the labels, but the glue is stubborn. Dish soap,
>>> vinegar, alcohol, WD40, peanut butter, nothing that Google suggests
>>> works.  What says the FOAK?
>>
>> White spirit, it's what is used in bottles of 'sticker remover'
>
> If that doesn't work then try nail varnish remover. Apply to the surface
> of the label (if paper) and it soaks through and still softens the glue.

.... before dissolving the plastic container.

On Sat, 08 Jan 2022 15:59:28 +0000, Colin Irvine
<look@colinandpat.co.uk> wrote:

>On Sat, 8 Jan 2022 01:28:36 +0000, Bruce Horrocks
><07.013@scorecrow.com> wrote:

>>If that doesn't work then try nail varnish remover. Apply to the surface
>>of the label (if paper) and it soaks through and still softens the glue.
>
>Or simply acetone, if you can get it.

Err, yes, that's what nail varnish remover is.

Or was, at least. Probably been replaced by something that doesn't do
a proper job in our (your?) H&S obsessed world.
--
Ace
http://www.chaletbeauroc.com/

On 1/7/2022 5:28 PM, Bruce Horrocks wrote:
> On 07/01/2022 19:12, geoffC wrote:
>> Turby wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>> I've been collecting plastic tubs, to use for various things. I'm
>>> trying to take off the labels, but the glue is stubborn. Dish soap,
>>> vinegar, alcohol, WD40, peanut butter, nothing that Google suggests
>>> works.  What says the FOAK?
>>
>> White spirit, it's what is used in bottles of 'sticker remover'
>
> If that doesn't work then try nail varnish remover. Apply to the surface
> of the label (if paper) and it soaks through and still softens the glue.
>
How many single men on the planet own nail varnish remover?

--
The erstwhile Thomas
FJR1300, R1200GS, ST1100 (in memoriam)

On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 08:07:30 -0800 (PST), Stephen Packer
<stephen.packer@gmail.com> wrote:

>First sidecar I rode on the road. Well, *mostly* on the road. I'm trying
>to remember *when* it was and suspect it was somewhere around 2007
>to 2008. Ish.
>
>Collected it from somewhere north of Birmingham and on my way to
>the motorway braking for the first junction suddenly I'm on the wrong side
>of the road heading towards a van! Correct and get my breath back,
>turn right, accelerate away and suddenly the sidecar wheel's mounting
>the pavement.

I remember riding Platy's outfit at Chimay, with two passengers (can't
remember who).

I pulled away and accelerated through the gears to a moderate 40ish
(iirc) - a sharp 90 deg corner was approaching, and I remember
thinking "I've no idea whether I'll be able to get round this". As it
happened, I did, but I really didn't know what I was doing
--
Champ
neal at champ dot org dot uk

I don't know, but I been told
You never slow down, you never grow old

On 08/01/2022 17:56, Champ wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 08:07:30 -0800 (PST), Stephen Packer
> <stephen.packer@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> First sidecar I rode on the road. Well, *mostly* on the road. I'm trying
>> to remember *when* it was and suspect it was somewhere around 2007
>> to 2008. Ish.
>>
>> Collected it from somewhere north of Birmingham and on my way to
>> the motorway braking for the first junction suddenly I'm on the wrong side
>> of the road heading towards a van! Correct and get my breath back,
>> turn right, accelerate away and suddenly the sidecar wheel's mounting
>> the pavement.
>
> I remember riding Platy's outfit at Chimay, with two passengers (can't
> remember who).
>
> I pulled away and accelerated through the gears to a moderate 40ish
> (iirc) - a sharp 90 deg corner was approaching, and I remember
> thinking "I've no idea whether I'll be able to get round this". As it
> happened, I did, but I really didn't know what I was doing

It's a whole new world.

I'd still really like a go on a proper kneeler race outfit (AS PILOT!).

--
Moto Morini 2C/375, Moto Morini 2C/350
Gilera 175 Sport, Husqvarna 401 Svartpilen
1937 Sunbeam Model 14 250 Sports
"Do not adjust your mind, there is a fault in the reality"

On Sat, 08 Jan 2022 18:13:15 +0100, Ace <Ace@ch.com> wrote:

>On Sat, 08 Jan 2022 15:59:28 +0000, Colin Irvine
><look@colinandpat.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 8 Jan 2022 01:28:36 +0000, Bruce Horrocks
>><07.013@scorecrow.com> wrote:
>
>>>If that doesn't work then try nail varnish remover. Apply to the surface
>>>of the label (if paper) and it soaks through and still softens the glue.
>>
>>Or simply acetone, if you can get it.
>
>Err, yes, that's what nail varnish remover is.

Hence the "simply", implying nail varnish's main ingredient.

--
Colin Irvine
FJR1300A

On Sat, 8 Jan 2022 18:45:47 +0000, Pete Fisher
<peter@ps-fisher.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>> I remember riding Platy's outfit at Chimay, with two passengers (can't
>> remember who).
>>
>> I pulled away and accelerated through the gears to a moderate 40ish
>> (iirc) - a sharp 90 deg corner was approaching, and I remember
>> thinking "I've no idea whether I'll be able to get round this". As it
>> happened, I did, but I really didn't know what I was doing

>It's a whole new world.
>
>I'd still really like a go on a proper kneeler race outfit (AS PILOT!).

Me too. Might be able to arrange that, here :-)

--
Champ
neal at champ dot org dot uk

I don't know, but I been told
You never slow down, you never grow old

On 09/01/2022 18:17, Champ wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Jan 2022 18:45:47 +0000, Pete Fisher
> <peter@ps-fisher.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>> I remember riding Platy's outfit at Chimay, with two passengers (can't
>>> remember who).
>>>
>>> I pulled away and accelerated through the gears to a moderate 40ish
>>> (iirc) - a sharp 90 deg corner was approaching, and I remember
>>> thinking "I've no idea whether I'll be able to get round this". As it
>>> happened, I did, but I really didn't know what I was doing
>
>> It's a whole new world.
>>
>> I'd still really like a go on a proper kneeler race outfit (AS PILOT!).
>
> Me too. Might be able to arrange that, here :-)
>

Go for it!

--
Moto Morini 2C/375, Moto Morini 2C/350
Gilera 175 Sport, Husqvarna 401 Svartpilen
1937 Sunbeam Model 14 250 Sports
"Do not adjust your mind, there is a fault in the reality"

Pete Fisher wrote:
> I'd still really like a go on a proper kneeler race outfit (AS PILOT!).

I still rate my three laps round Brands as monkey on an F2 outfit as one of the funnest things I've ever done.

This is the first year I've not bothered keeping the category on my ACU licence. It was hard work then, and I'm older and fatter now.

On Sat, 08 Jan 2022 17:56:29 +0000, Champ <neal@champ.org.uk> wrote:

>I remember riding Platy's outfit at Chimay, with two passengers (can't
>remember who).

Ginny and TOG.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/38219192@N00/876913127/in/album-72157600965144746/
--
Salad Dodger
1690 FLHTK;GL1800D
Previously ...
CB1300SA8;GL1800A6;GL1500SEV;CBR1100XXX;
CBR1000FL;CBX1000Z;GPz750R;Z750E1;Z650C2;
KH500A8;KH250B3;TS250c;TS185c.

On 09/01/2022 19:43, ogden wrote:
> Pete Fisher wrote:
>> I'd still really like a go on a proper kneeler race outfit (AS PILOT!).
>
> I still rate my three laps round Brands as monkey on an F2 outfit as one of the funnest things I've ever done.
>
> This is the first year I've not bothered keeping the category on my ACU licence. It was hard work then, and I'm older and fatter now.

One (slow) "lap" of Curborough was enough for me.

--
/Simon

Salad Dodger <salad.dodger@idnet.com> wrote in
news:lofmtgdl75cmoogtsdqgefn7kqlnhga4lj@4ax.com:

> On Sat, 08 Jan 2022 17:56:29 +0000, Champ <neal@champ.org.uk> wrote:
>
>
>>I remember riding Platy's outfit at Chimay, with two passengers (can't
>>remember who).
>
> Ginny and TOG.
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/38219192@N00/876913127/in/album-721576009
> 65144746/

isn't your mystery man Packer?

On Sun, 9 Jan 2022 20:56:56 -0000 (UTC), wessie
<willnotwork@tesco.net> wrote:

>Salad Dodger <salad.dodger@idnet.com> wrote in
>news:lofmtgdl75cmoogtsdqgefn7kqlnhga4lj@4ax.com:
>
>> On Sat, 08 Jan 2022 17:56:29 +0000, Champ <neal@champ.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I remember riding Platy's outfit at Chimay, with two passengers (can't
>>>remember who).
>>
>> Ginny and TOG.
>>
>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/38219192@N00/876913127/in/album-721576009
>> 65144746/
>
>isn't your mystery man Packer?

I believe he was effecting an air of mystery at the time. Might still
be.
--
Salad Dodger
1690 FLHTK;GL1800D
Previously ...
CB1300SA8;GL1800A6;GL1500SEV;CBR1100XXX;
CBR1000FL;CBX1000Z;GPz750R;Z750E1;Z650C2;
KH500A8;KH250B3;TS250c;TS185c.

On Sun, 09 Jan 2022 20:01:45 +0000, Salad Dodger
<salad.dodger@idnet.com> wrote:

>On Sat, 08 Jan 2022 17:56:29 +0000, Champ <neal@champ.org.uk> wrote:
>
>
>>I remember riding Platy's outfit at Chimay, with two passengers (can't
>>remember who).

>Ginny and TOG.
>
>https://www.flickr.com/photos/38219192@N00/876913127/in/album-72157600965144746/

<slaps forhead> Of course!

I recall you were closely involved (as, it turns out, taking photos),
but I was fairly sure I'd have remembered if you were a passenger :-)
--
Champ
neal at champ dot org dot uk

I don't know, but I been told
You never slow down, you never grow old

On Sun, 9 Jan 2022 20:56:56 -0000 (UTC), wessie
<willnotwork@tesco.net> wrote:

>Salad Dodger <salad.dodger@idnet.com> wrote in
>news:lofmtgdl75cmoogtsdqgefn7kqlnhga4lj@4ax.com:
>
>> On Sat, 08 Jan 2022 17:56:29 +0000, Champ <neal@champ.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I remember riding Platy's outfit at Chimay, with two passengers (can't
>>>remember who).
>>
>> Ginny and TOG.
>>
>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/38219192@N00/876913127/in/album-72157600965144746/

>isn't your mystery man Packer?

Definitely
--
Champ
neal at champ dot org dot uk

I don't know, but I been told
You never slow down, you never grow old

Champ wrote:

> > > I remember riding Platy's outfit at Chimay, with two passengers
> > > (can't remember who).
>
> > Ginny and TOG.
> >
> >
https://www.flickr.com/photos/38219192@N00/876913127/in/album-72157600965144746/
>
> <slaps forhead> Of course!
>
> I recall you were closely involved (as, it turns out, taking photos),
> but I was fairly sure I'd have remembered if you were a passenger :-)

He was later that day...

http://sweller.dynalias.org/images/ukrm/Chimay07-SD.jpg

--
Simon

On Monday, 10 January 2022 at 08:05:11 UTC, sweller wrote:

> He was later that day...
>
> http://sweller.dynalias.org/images/ukrm/Chimay07-SD.jpg

*That's* the image I remember!

I think that later in the day there was a fair amount of sunburn.

Was that really 2007?

On 10 Jan 2022 08:05:08 GMT, "sweller" <sweller@mztech.fsnet.co.uk>
wrote:

>> > > I remember riding Platy's outfit at Chimay, with two passengers
>> > > (can't remember who).
>>
>> > Ginny and TOG.
>> >
>> >
>https://www.flickr.com/photos/38219192@N00/876913127/in/album-72157600965144746/
>> <slaps forhead> Of course!
>>
>> I recall you were closely involved (as, it turns out, taking photos),
>> but I was fairly sure I'd have remembered if you were a passenger :-)

>He was later that day...
>http://sweller.dynalias.org/images/ukrm/Chimay07-SD.jpg

Ah, yes, an active part
--
Champ
neal at champ dot org dot uk

I don't know, but I been told
You never slow down, you never grow old

Stephen Packer wrote:

> > http://sweller.dynalias.org/images/ukrm/Chimay07-SD.jpg
>
> That's the image I remember!
>
> I think that later in the day there was a fair amount of sunburn.
>
> Was that really 2007?

Sadly, yes.

--
Simon

On 08/01/2022 18:45, Pete Fisher wrote:
> On 08/01/2022 17:56, Champ wrote:
>> On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 08:07:30 -0800 (PST), Stephen Packer
>> <stephen.packer@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> First sidecar I rode on the road.  Well, *mostly* on the road.  I'm
>>> trying
>>> to remember *when* it was and suspect it was somewhere around 2007
>>> to 2008. Ish.
>>>
>>> Collected it from somewhere north of Birmingham and on my way to
>>> the motorway braking for the first junction suddenly I'm on the wrong
>>> side
>>> of the road heading towards a van!  Correct and get my breath back,
>>> turn right, accelerate away and suddenly the sidecar wheel's mounting
>>> the pavement.
>>
>> I remember riding Platy's outfit at Chimay, with two passengers (can't
>> remember who).
>>
>> I pulled away and accelerated through the gears to a moderate 40ish
>> (iirc) - a sharp 90 deg corner was approaching, and I remember
>> thinking "I've no idea whether I'll be able to get round this".  As it
>> happened, I did, but I really didn't know what I was doing
>
> It's a whole new world.
>
> I'd still really like a go on a proper kneeler race outfit (AS PILOT!).
>
>
>

Mike (who I did the Russia/USA thing wth) is/was a sidecar pilot.

He was never eager to allow me ot get in the car.
Bastard.

--
Bruce Porter
"The internet is a huge and diverse community but mainly friendly"
http://ytc1.blogspot.co.uk/
There *is* an alternative! http://www.openoffice.org/

On Sunday, January 9, 2022 at 8:01:48 PM UTC, Salad Dodger wrote:
> On Sat, 08 Jan 2022 17:56:29 +0000, Champ <ne...@champ.org.uk> wrote:
>
>
> >I remember riding Platy's outfit at Chimay, with two passengers (can't
> >remember who).
> Ginny and TOG.
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/38219192@N00/876913127/in/album-72157600965144746/

Can't believe some cnut took a mini to Chimay, fark that was 4 cars ago..... How time does that accelerating thing when you get older.

Buzby wrote:

> We used RostOff on my FiL's deathtrap of a boat

I like to file away such recommendations, but it's a bit of a boggle trying to
understand the differences between

RostOff Plus
RostOff Special
RostOff Black
RostOff Ice
RostOff Blue Ice
RostOff Crafty

On 1/6/2022 3:39 PM, Mark Olson wrote:
> Turby <xsurf@xmail.com> wrote:
>> On 1/4/2022 1:02 AM, Pete Fisher wrote:
>>> On 04/01/2022 08:38, sweller wrote:
>>>> Pete Fisher wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Nothing acts faster (Tm. Anadin) than Plusgas IME
>>>>
>>>> It's good but I've found the graphite pentrating oil from Toolstation
>>>> to be just as effective - and a lot cheaper.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Personal recommendation is always welcome. I shall JFGI.
>>>
>> I've been collecting plastic tubs, to use for various things. I'm trying
>> to take off the labels, but the glue is stubborn. Dish soap, vinegar,
>> alcohol, WD40, peanut butter, nothing that Google suggests works.
>> What says the FOAK?
>
> Goo Gone, it actually does work.
>
OK, it's taken far more than the last 2 months, but I have a solution.
Of course, it depends on what the label is, and who put it on. The
peanut butter and cottage cheese are easy, and everything else at
Sprouts. The chocolate chip cookies from Trader Joe's has been my
biggest challenge. Round rim, octagonal body and square bottom. Soaking
in canola oil for a while (~ an hour) softens all the paper, leaving
just the glue. I pour GooGone on and rub it in with my fingers. I can
feel whether it has loosened up all the glue. Then I take an abrasive
sponge and ensure the entire tub is loose. Then I take another abrasive
sponge soaked in dish soap to get the GooGone off. Then go over again
easy to get any lapses. It takes a ridiculous amount of time, but I now
have 3 clean tubs and a mfpgw of other, unclean tubs that will stay that
way.

BTW, No, I swear I don't have OCD.

--
The erstwhile Thomas
FJR1300, R1200GS, ST1100 (in memoriam)

On 03/03/2022 23:24, Turby wrote:
> On 1/6/2022 3:39 PM, Mark Olson wrote:
>> Turby <xsurf@xmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>> I've been collecting plastic tubs, to use for various things. I'm trying
>>> to take off the labels, but the glue is stubborn. Dish soap, vinegar,
>>> alcohol, WD40, peanut butter, nothing that Google suggests works.
>>> What says the FOAK?
>>
>> Goo Gone, it actually does work.
>>
> OK, it's taken far more than the last 2 months, but I have a solution.
> Of course, it depends on what the label is, and who put it on. The
> peanut butter and cottage cheese are easy, and everything else at
> Sprouts. The chocolate chip cookies from Trader Joe's has been my
> biggest challenge. Round rim, octagonal body and square bottom. Soaking
> in canola oil for a while (~ an hour) softens all the paper, leaving
> just the glue. I pour GooGone on and rub it in with my fingers. I can
> feel whether it has loosened up all the glue. Then I take an abrasive
> sponge and ensure the entire tub is loose. Then I take another abrasive
> sponge soaked in dish soap to get the GooGone off. Then go over again
> easy to get any lapses. It takes a ridiculous amount of time, but I now
> have 3 clean tubs and a mfpgw of other, unclean tubs that will stay that
> way.
>
> BTW, No, I swear I don't have OCD.

I have also been collecting plastic tubs. Those from Indian and Chinese
takeways don't have labels. The Morrisons sad meals are no longer
properly reusable plastic tubs, but those that were, I first put through
the dishwasher to clean any spilt food off the labels so I could grip
them, then peeled the labels off, then remembered I'd left the meths,
IPA, and white spirit upstairs so I couldn't experiment and just used
them anyway (so they keep sticking together). Stage 2 is remembering to
bring the chemicals downstairs (not the acetone, I think that would be
too vicious).

I have, however, discovered that the more I put in tubs, the more I find
that can be put in tubs. Plus I've run out of shelf space for tubs so I
need to put another shelf up.