@@ImmaculateComics Danka. and so is the rest of me. GOD BLESS.
@shepherdsknoll2 жыл бұрын
Help Rick ! I watched the tutorial. I have a X-Men 101 which I thought was in 9.0+ territory. When I started to clean I noticed a small piece oh tape on the lower left side, front cover. With the help of the tutorial I was able to get the cellophane part of the tape off. I was left with the dark, gummy , sticky part underneath. Heating and using the white sponge in your kit had minimal affect. Using the immacuclean actually started to work but I am now starting to lose some of the ink in the book, any suggestions ?
@ImmaculateComics2 жыл бұрын
I like to try a few special solvents that I blend myself, but in their absence try to find some toluene or some isopropanol at your local hardware store!
@death_kaffee3 жыл бұрын
Never knew it was possible
@ImmaculateComics3 жыл бұрын
well it isn't easy, but it is certainly possible!
@nolanmorgan79203 жыл бұрын
HELLO B R O T H E R E N
@Joeh1154 Жыл бұрын
Hello Rick. I've seen a number of your videos and I've enjoyed the information. I'm a long time reader/collector of the Marvel Silver age and my specific question has to do with trying to remove old tape residue that has browned over the years. I have two specific books I'd like to clean up. One is Tales to Astonish #54. It's a UK/Pence Variant and someone had put a price sticker over the UK price. When I bought it, the sticker had likely been long removed and it left behind some residue that has browned. I'd like to minimize color and perhaps ink loss and I wonder what I could use to help me with that. My other book is ASM #50. The same issue but it's residue from scotch tape, long removed and browned as well just not as severe as TTA #54. The minor good thing is it's on the back cover in a white edge. I'll admit I put it on a small tear back in the day, and the tape fell off after it dried up. Aside from this video, have you previously addressed the type of thing I mentioned and if so, would you refer me to the video? Thank you.
@ImmaculateComics Жыл бұрын
Hi Joe and thanks for writing. Those old cellophane tapes are tricky. That adhesive residue often contained acetate, which decomposes into acetic acid. the brownish residue left over can be removed with solvents, typically isopropanol. However sometime that residue is all that's holding the paper together beneath it. Sometime the paper where the tape was just crumbles away to small pieces when that adhesive is removed. So you can try using isopropanol but just have caution!
@Joeh1154 Жыл бұрын
@@ImmaculateComics Hi Rick and thank you for responding so promptly. The back cover looks solid and it was a small piece of tape. I appreciate the suggestion of isopropanol. Would you allow me to send a photo of each book I've referred to here? I know it's not like having it in front of you to view and touch but if you would allow it, I'd be happy to. I've also got a beautiful copy of Strange Tales #136 with a round price sticker on it I'd like to send as well. I've seen the video above and others that suggest heat guns and even hair driers! I'd like your opinion as well. Thank you again.
@ImmaculateComics Жыл бұрын
@@Joeh1154 Hi Joe! Sorry for the delay, sure thing…. email me at rick@imaculatecomics.com !!!
@HotRodakaMadMax2 жыл бұрын
What wood burner would you recommend buying?
@ImmaculateComics2 жыл бұрын
I’m actually not even sure which one this is. I just know that I got it at hobby lobby
@florianneumann94413 жыл бұрын
Hi rick - so coming back to this - as I am still excitingly waiting for my 'wet'-cleaning stuff and trying to enhance my dry cleaning skills - I got some books that have glue residues on the cover ( probably from tape ). Did I get this correct in the end - your advice is to get this hot ( I already go myself a mini soldering iron for spine-tick removal ) and then slowly rub it off with a sponge or similar... do you think it's a good idea to but a silicon-paper sheet on top of the glue when heating it - luckily I just saw you wrote 180 °F - but I think I can only heat it to ~150-180 °C? Only short heating on top of the silicon sheet? Or to big of a risk burning the book? thanks
@ImmaculateComics3 жыл бұрын
For something like adhesive hotter is always better an the book can take it up to about 200 degrees F. Its the ink that may fade or discolor about 180. Most adhesives come off much much easier when they are warm. If you are concerned try 150 degrees and see how it goes!
@florianneumann94413 жыл бұрын
@@ImmaculateComics thank you very much rick... i will give it a shot today/tomorrow. I send you a picture how it went if the house hasn't burned down ^^
@florianneumann94413 жыл бұрын
@@ImmaculateComics removed like 15price tags today... Still little bit unhappy with the glue residues... But will give them a 2nd clean. Maybe that will finish of... Little afraid the books will glue to the pressing plates if I don't get this stuff cleaned of probably first. G
@ImmaculateComics3 жыл бұрын
@@florianneumann9441 awesome progress my friend!
@b2d3273 жыл бұрын
How about heating the area on the cover from both sides? May soften the glue faster.
@ImmaculateComics3 жыл бұрын
It does soften the adhesive faster (not glue) but occasionally the ink will also dissolve into the adhesive itself when heating from that direction
@whyeff212 жыл бұрын
I have the same scenario. The price tag has already been removed but the residue of the glue stayed. The problem is, this comic cover is different from your common book where the surface is porous like the paper inside. It's a UK comic, Captain Britain 1970's issue. The glue of the price tag has left a square dark mark as though its been clear coated with a shellac. I'd like to have it removed. Any advice?
@ImmaculateComics2 жыл бұрын
that stinks, I'm sorry. Consider trying toluene if you can get it?
@florianneumann94413 жыл бұрын
Sry... in danger of sounding dumb here - so this is a heated tool (Sry none-native speaker - didn't quite get that name to translate it into german)? How hot should that be? Anyway - thx for your videos, learned a lot of things i never have found anywhere else ( and just bought a run of books from ebay that had damn prive-tags on them, I didn't see at first )...
@ImmaculateComics3 жыл бұрын
Hi there! I modified a “wood burner” which is like a soldering iron. In this case I heated it to 180°F
@hardtocomebuy23 жыл бұрын
great tool! where did you find that flat head for the wood burner?
@ImmaculateComics3 жыл бұрын
actually a colleague of mine welded it together for me. (or actually brazed it together)
@hardtocomebuy23 жыл бұрын
@@ImmaculateComics if he's willing to do it again let me know how much :)
@ImmaculateComics3 жыл бұрын
I’ll ask!
@ggli82 жыл бұрын
I’d be interested in one of these too! You should market this.
@Revtwenty3 жыл бұрын
burned the hell out of my fingers using my wifes hair dryer lol - this is way better