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Some radio amateurs draw future conductors on a printed circuit board blank by gluing strips cut from adhesive tape onto it. After etching, when strips of tape are removed, areas often remain on the surface of the board covered with adhesive residue. The same thing happens when removing stickers and labels from equipment cases, boxes, audio and video cassettes, etc.

It is quite difficult to mechanically remove adhesive residues, water, alcohol, acetone-based solvents do not affect it, and are not always applicable.

I offer an easy way to remove adhesive residue without the use of solvents, which I have been using for many years. Taking a small but wide piece of new adhesive tape, I roll its sticky side with blotting movements over the contaminated surface. By changing the direction of these movements, it is always possible to quickly clean almost any surface.

As the tape becomes dirty, the cleaning ability of the tape decreases and it must be replaced with fresh one.

If you notice that some of the adhesive from the new tape remains on the treated surface, continue the process until it is completely clean. I have not yet had a case where I could not completely get rid of the remnants of the old glue.

Author: D.Sirota, Dalnerechensk, Primorsky Krai

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