Removing stickers and adhesive from CD

[WatcherJoshua]

I have a small problem I suspect that some of you have encountered. Can anyone give advice for removing stickers and adhesives from a CD? In this case, it is specifically a set of Playstation 1 discs.

I bought a complete copy of Final Fantasy 7 the other day. It arrived today and everything looks great...except that there are large mailing labels stuck right in the middle of each disc. It looks like the labels were added to prevent the discs from falling out of the jewel case, but when I started removing one, it was obviously not going to come off clean - so I stopped.

I did a little bit of searching online and found a few options, but I wasn't sure how fragile PS1 discs tend to be. I'm sure Goo Gone will work, I'm just paranoid about destroying the disc. This was the last Final Fantasy game I needed for my set. >_>

[ShoothimNow]

Yeah... so... I had a Family Video sticker (when they did stickers for PS2 games) on Dirge Of Cerberus: Final Fantasy 7 and I VERY CAREFULLY peeled it off.  At one point in pulling the sticker off (no goo gone or anything), the STICKER was so adhered to the top of the game, that the sticker easily peeled the label.  Sucks.

Same thing with Astal for Sega Saturn.

However, I have had about 5 others that peeled off perfectly fine.

I would just be careful.

[Hesch]

Maybe lightly soak the sticker in rubbing alchohol and then take a straight razer to it?

[wiggy]

Heptane.

[Blumpkin]

Personally, I've just learned to live with rental stickers on discs. Removing them is just such a huge risk.

[wiggy]

Personally, I've just learned to live with rental stickers on discs. Removing them is just such a huge risk.

Seriously. Get some heptane. Your concerns will dissapear once you give it a try, and you'll wonder how you got along without it.

[Jeremy1976]

I get a qtip and dip it in wd40, rub the qtip on the sticker and let it sit overnight.  Usually most of it will peel off allowing you to rub the rest off with light pressure

[maximumbob54]

Go buy a cheap hair blow dryer if there isn't one in the house.  Warm up, that is WARM UP, not heat to the point of damaging the disk, warm up the sticker and many of them come right off.  I have done this to those horrid rental stickers that cover the entire disk and not yet damaged one.  I've not tried the Bestine/heptane stuff but when I'm not worried about damaging a label or cover I've had great luck with regular old lighter fluid.  That stuff gets the most stubborn old sticky no matter how dried it is.  Then clean off the residue it leaves behind with alcohol or pretty much anything and poof it's as close to new again as it will ever get. 

[Layman]

I was just dealing with removing stickers the other day from games that I purchased from Redbox a while back.   The best method I've found is to take a Q-Tip and coat the sticker with rubbing alcohol and then use a very sharp knife or razor blade and lightly (or you're going to scratch) dice the sticker.  Then you need to manually scrape the sticker off with a finger nail and reapply rubbing alcohol to remove the left over residue.  It's a time consuming process but it'll get the job done.   

[wiggy]

I can't stress enough how bad an idea that is. The data layer is directly below that sticker. One minuscule scratch can destroy the game. I wouldn't even consider taking a blade to it.