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| wiggy:
--- Quote from: Blumpkin on August 05, 2017, 09:35:09 AM ---Personally, I've just learned to live with rental stickers on discs. Removing them is just such a huge risk. --- End quote --- 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. |
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