Thanks Jim.

On the note of spot checking cleaners......

My canvas was already pretty "mottled" and this is all kind of an
experiment so I wasn't too concerned how it would end up looking, but
whatta joke! I used strong mildew cleaner on the canvas. Didn't do
anything to the mildew spots, but sure changed the colour! Anyhow....
--- :^)

FWIW, (I'm sure there may be others with duct taped patches) by the
time I cleaned/rinsed the area around the rip, I was well away from
the duct tape gunk. I could have left that stuff alone and just
washed/rinsed with soapy water to prep for patches.

And FWIW, I used "Goo Gone" to try and clean the gunk. Kinda worked,
but hardly worth the effort.

Hand cleaner might work a lot better.

Cheers,

Neil.

On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Jim Cochran <mxsailor@gmail.com> wrote:
> You might want to try the waterless hand cleaner on a spot.

>>> On Sat, 30 Aug 2008, neil N wrote:
>>>
>>> > Hi all.
>>> >
>>> > I want to nurse my pop top canvas along for a while. I'm correcting
>>> > repairs done by the PO and myself:
>>> >
>>> > a plethora of duct tape covering big rips in the pop top canvas.
>>> >
>>> > I know there's stuff in the archives about tape residue removal,
>>> but
>>> > this is a somewhat delicate operation so.....
>>> >
>>> > What removes sticky residue, *w/o lots-o-scrubbing*, and leaves a
>>> > clean surface to bond some new canvas to?