Best way to clean cigarette nicatine off the cans?
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Best way to clean cigarette nicatine off the cans?
Anyone have good success cleaning nicotine off of cans other than using water and a paper towel?
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Re: Best way to clean cigarette nicatine off the cans?
Warm soapy water, use Dawn regular dish detergent.Sea Monkey wrote: ↑Fri Apr 07, 2017 4:44 pm Anyone have good success cleaning nicotine off of cans other than using water and a paper towel?
Ivan... RB #1078 Collector of soda cans & bottles from Canada. Looking for Canadian soada cans 12oz & 10oz From the 1950s right into the 80s.
Also Canadian Beers ,USA Orange Crush bottles And American Drewrys beer cans.
Also Canadian Beers ,USA Orange Crush bottles And American Drewrys beer cans.
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Re: Best way to clean cigarette nicatine off the cans?
I hold them in my lap for 20 hours while humming the theme to Bonanza. I get mixed results but the cans seem pleased.
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Re: Best way to clean cigarette nicatine off the cans?
Be careful w. Simple Green Scott,
Dilute, dilute, dilute.
I've torched two cans with regular household cleaners (Simple Green screwing one for me), but admittedly the cans I torched were the same. Inverted Old Style conetops, flat bottom. I think in 1935, somebody Geo. Heileman's must have thought it wise to use 'chalk-based' paint, because their paint sucked. +75 yrs. later, Simple Green caused the paint to run after very a dilute mix. Then I tried using Windex.... What possessed me to do that.....I think it was panic....yielding equally stupid results. Talk about learnin' the hard way.
If it's 50's paint, you should be ok.
Dilute, dilute, dilute.
I've torched two cans with regular household cleaners (Simple Green screwing one for me), but admittedly the cans I torched were the same. Inverted Old Style conetops, flat bottom. I think in 1935, somebody Geo. Heileman's must have thought it wise to use 'chalk-based' paint, because their paint sucked. +75 yrs. later, Simple Green caused the paint to run after very a dilute mix. Then I tried using Windex.... What possessed me to do that.....I think it was panic....yielding equally stupid results. Talk about learnin' the hard way.
If it's 50's paint, you should be ok.
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Re: Best way to clean cigarette nicatine off the cans?
Many of these cans were collected in the early to mid 70's. I'm assuming they sat in a house with smokers. And yes,I know my love of Flitz borders on annoying...but here is an example.
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