I use a hair blow dryer. Heat the sticker up for a minute and then pry up a corner, angle the dryer to blow towards where i have it started and peel it up. Works every time. Loosens that glue up good. Works on games that have had stickers on them for two decades..even three..however long lol. They come up EASY. Great for when the sticker is on a label or box and you dont want goo gone, goof off, rubbing alcohol, whatever to ruin it.
You should always heat the sticker up with a hair dryer or heat gun to loosen it up before trying to remove it. Just take your time with it. I havent run across one yet I wasnt able to get off.
You should always heat the sticker up with a hair dryer or heat gun to loosen it up before trying to remove it. Just take your time with it. I havent run across one yet I wasnt able to get off.
Some stickers seems to let some sticky residues after you remove them that way. I've seen a guy in town who removed some stickers on boxes before selling them to me, and he used goo gone and he didn't mess up the box.
But there is one kind of stickers that could not remove of boxes, it's a sticker that a local rental store that put a huge nintendo sticker on their boxes and they seems to always let some residue that seems to make one with the box.
Goo Gone works well on sealed boxes (just be sure not to let any get in those air vent holes in the plastic. In general it works fine for any glossy labels, but watch out for the "dry" finish stuff, it could leave stains. Most NES labels are ok as long as you stay away from the edges. I use a Q-tip for accuracy. Another trick to get label debris off sealed games is with a bit of packaging tape. Just stick it on and rip it off quickly. Most of the old sticker will come off on the tape. Just don't test any of these methods on your sealed Chrono Trigger
If I had any sealed games (in fact I have 3, but don't really want them though), I will let the stickers on them. They don't really affect value and are cool form a historic point of view, IMO.
Has anyone ever dealt with security stickers? Those are a pain to get off, and still seem to leave some kind of residue. Also what's the best way to remove labels from carts? Boiling water?
I was wondering what other collectors do with cibs/carts they get with stickers/tape/cello/writing on them
- do you remove it at any cost - do you remove it only if 100% sure to not damage the item - do you ignore them and leave them be?
personally i'm a remover at 99% max, I only have 1 cib that i didn't remove the stickers off because i noticed they were so "grown" into the box that they would tear it apart. Other than that i remove all stickers/residue/writing at any means possible and get away with it without harming the item 99.9% of the time
this however stops at a certain degree.. id be very tense trying to remove a sticker from a Rodland box just to say
so what do you do?
To answer your original question, I always remove them, as long as they aren't too hard to remove. If a sticker takes longer than 30 seconds to remove, or starts to hurt my thumb nails, then it generally isn't worth it, so I'll just leave it on. But otherwise, I generally always remove stickers.
Thanks, I left you a positive vote as well. I've tried regular alcohol, but gave up after it wouldn't do squat. I'll give denatured a try. Denatured alcohol will also take off permanent markers and hot glue, but you've got to really saturate the hot glue to get the alcohol under it.
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I just send them to Buk Fity and for $1.50 per cart he cleans them to as good as they were when they were new...
haha that made me rofl
anyone have a tip for getting those deteriorated sticker residues off that really eaten the box? (googone aint doing the trick)
You should always heat the sticker up with a hair dryer or heat gun to loosen it up before trying to remove it. Just take your time with it. I havent run across one yet I wasnt able to get off.
Some stickers seems to let some sticky residues after you remove them that way. I've seen a guy in town who removed some stickers on boxes before selling them to me, and he used goo gone and he didn't mess up the box.
But there is one kind of stickers that could not remove of boxes, it's a sticker that a local rental store that put a huge nintendo sticker on their boxes and they seems to always let some residue that seems to make one with the box.
Good luck!
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I was wondering what other collectors do with cibs/carts they get with stickers/tape/cello/writing on them
- do you remove it at any cost
- do you remove it only if 100% sure to not damage the item
- do you ignore them and leave them be?
personally i'm a remover at 99% max, I only have 1 cib that i didn't remove the stickers off because i noticed they were so "grown" into the box that they would tear it apart.
Other than that i remove all stickers/residue/writing at any means possible and get away with it without harming the item 99.9% of the time
this however stops at a certain degree.. id be very tense trying to remove a sticker from a Rodland box just to say
so what do you do?
To answer your original question, I always remove them, as long as they aren't too hard to remove. If a sticker takes longer than 30 seconds to remove, or starts to hurt my thumb nails, then it generally isn't worth it, so I'll just leave it on. But otherwise, I generally always remove stickers.
Jason that is a great guide, thank you so much for writing it
Thanks Nick. I really appreciate the negative vote as well. Your a swell guy.
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if i bought it too play, for get about it, if its a keeper, i try too remove it...