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The idiots at our local DIY store found a solution to their barcode stickers getting damaged on the PVC piping, they wrapped it around the end; with most of it stuck to the INSIDE of the pipe.

If you hate those stickers on the surface, just try to get all remnants off of the interior of a dozen or so lengths of plumbing pipe.

Just remember, Edison also wanted to know "How come?" in the early days, he felt the installed systems were safe.

Thomas Edison wrote a letter to the New York Board of Fire Underwriters stating: "I beg to say that the system of electric lighting of the Edison Electric Light Company is absolutely free from any possible danger from fire, even in connection with inflamable material."

When you say "How Come" it all started, with the meeting of 1896 to draft up the first Electrical Codes.

Put in a nutshell, Insurance companies were paying out too much. Insurance companies pushed the development of codes, not as believed by many as something developed by the goverment, today goverment agencies embrace the standards, and use it, as a guiding legal document.

While shopping tonight at one of the big box office supply stores I came across this in the glue isle.

The Elmer's glue people now make a product called "Elmer's Sticky Out Adhesive Remover".

Here is a expanded picture off of a website of what the label says it removes. http://www.dickblick.com/zz249/15/

For the longest time at home I had used Athletic Tape remover but I ran out and have not found a well stocked drug store to buy more at. I may have to buy some of this stuff and give it a try.

ROFL!

..."a classroom must have"..."not suitable for use by children!"

How come glue don't stick to the inside of the bottle?

There have been requests for new Forum areas in the past.
I asked Bill (Our Webmaster) for an off-topic area, some time ago.
Look, I think that the current Forum list is perfectly adequate for our needs.
But that does not mean you cannot put an OT: (Off Topic thread) in the General Area.
Why make things more difficult?.

I think this should be a case of adding an area only if there is a clear need or distinction for topics which cannot be covered adequately elsewhere.

I've seen some forums which have so many different areas that in my opinion the overlap in coverage is so great that deciding which area is the right one becomes an almost impossible task.

goo-gone will remove any adhesive residue

Ghost307:
How about the idiots at the local big chain - hardware store that used to put the price stickers and bar code labels on the ends of cartridge fuses and around the threads of plug fuses when they used to sell them individually like that instead of on those bubble packs like they sell them now... Do you know how many times people would not bother or not think to peel the labels off and tried popping the fuses in with "little or hot results"? LOL

A.D

Alan, I think they are talking about the maintenance staff or the teacher needs this crayon remover. The kids are the crayon installers.