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Getting Hot Glue off shell?
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 9:09 am
by bellag33
After my hermit crabs dumped their painted shells, I removed them from the tank, boiled them, and began getting the paint off so I could re-offer them to the hermies. However, one of the shells has some hot glue at the bottom. Does anyone know how to get this off?
Owner of three hermies: Athena, Bungie, and Charlie!
Getting Hot Glue off shell?
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 10:11 am
by Allyb01
I have an idea! Whenever I am working on a project using hot glue, if I press the tip of the hot glue gun (with glue not coming out it) it melts the already hard glue. Then while it is all melty, quickly scrape it off. You could try doing that. Hopefully it works.
Proud owner of 6 PPs,Twinkie, Tweedles, Tiny, Nugget, Squidgy, and Bumbie!
Re: Getting Hot Glue off shell?
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 10:51 am
by bellag33
Allyb01 wrote:I have an idea! Whenever I am working on a project using hot glue, if I press the tip of the hot glue gun (with glue not coming out it) it melts the already hard glue. Then while it is all melty, quickly scrape it off. You could try doing that. Hopefully it works.
Proud owner of 6 PPs,Twinkie, Tweedles, Tiny, Nugget, Squidgy, and Bumbie!
Thank you so much! I will try that.
Owner of three hermies: Athena, Bungie, and Charlie!
Re: Getting Hot Glue off shell?
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 4:32 pm
by KellyCrabbieLove
I pop it off with a butter knife.
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Re: Getting Hot Glue off shell?
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 6:17 pm
by bellag33
KellyCrabbieLove wrote:I pop it off with a butter knife.
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I will try that!
Owner of three hermies: Athena, Bungie, and Charlie!
Re: Getting Hot Glue off shell?
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 8:32 pm
by KellyCrabbieLove
Any luck?
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Re: Getting Hot Glue off shell?
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 8:40 pm
by bellag33
KellyCrabbieLove wrote:Any luck?
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Yes! I was able to get most of the glue off.
Owner of three hermies: Athena, Bungie, and Charlie!
Re: Getting Hot Glue off shell?
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 9:15 pm
by KellyCrabbieLove
Yay!
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Re: Getting Hot Glue off shell?
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 10:05 pm
by TheLocalCrabber
How do you remove the paint?
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Re: Getting Hot Glue off shell?
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 10:17 pm
by soilentgringa
TheLocalCrabber wrote:How do you remove the paint?
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Sometimes you can peel it off and boil the shell. If it is acrylic paint is generally peels away. Sometimes it is not possible to remove all traces of the paint.
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Re: Getting Hot Glue off shell?
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 10:28 pm
by TheLocalCrabber
Thanks!
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