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Subject:Re: Removing Tree Sap
From:OlRivrRat
Date:Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:15:39 -0700

I park my VDubaru under Elms & the top get a BlackMoldy looking stuff

that won't wipe off but a PowerWasher with just plain cold H2O makes  
it all

White&New looking again.

                                                        ORR~DeanB

On 28 Nov , 2012, at 7:45 AM, Jim Felder wrote:

> I hear they'll keep cats off your wipers, too.
>
> Jim
>
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 1:13 AM, Aristotle Sagan
> <killer.jupiter@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Chainsaws remove tree sap as well.
>>
>> tim in san jose
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Steven Johnson <sjohnso2000@gmail.com 
>> >
>> wrote:
>>> Rubbing alcohol removes tree sap as well....
>>>
>>> Steven
>>> 91 Westy
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Roland <syncronicity1@gmail.com>  
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I keep a bottle of "stuff" from the local auto parts place --   
>>>> "bug and
>>>> tar" remover, probably on the shelf by the waxes, always had good  
>>>> luck
>> with
>>>> it to clean up the paint around wheel wells. Removes tar and  
>>>> black road
>>>> stuff very well without damaging paint, should be safe for the  
>>>> pop top.
>>>> It might work on sap also.
>>>>
>>>> Roland
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Jon Durham <jon_durham@knology.net 
>>>> >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The outside plastic of the pop top has tree sap and black mold.  
>>>>> Can I
>>>>> use bleach to remove?
>>>>>
>>>>> Jon
>>>>> --
>>>>> �All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind  
>>>>> is
>>>>> everything. What we think, we become.� Buddha
>>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Where ever you are, there you be. Unless you're driving my van, in
>> which case, you ain't got there yet.
>>

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