A worker was setting up to tar some roof cracks on my bench on the garage today. My VOM was nearby, and later I noticed 3 spots of tar. Each less than 1 mm. Maybe 0.3 mm. I tried using my finger nail to get the biggest one off, but no effect. Paint thinner? ?? Forget it?
Tar remover, from an auto parts dealer.
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It may attack the plastic. To OP:Put the unit in the freezer and then try to pick it off.
Leave at room temperature.
Well Isolated From Sparks or Open Flame, Snap on some rubber gloves.
Grab some scrap terry cloth (Not paper) towels. Work outside or with excellent ventilation. Open your trusty can of naphtha and put a little on the corner of your towel. Rub tar off, occasionally changing the towel surface.
Naphtha (Coleman camping fuel) works better than magic and does not harm plastic, though it will suck the oil right out of your fingers if you allow personal contact. See note about gloves.
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That could work. I'm wondering whether warming the area might soften the tar enough to let you get at it...
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flux remover
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WD-40
....or Ronson lighter fluid.
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Try thin machine oil ("3-in-1"), that won't damage the (probably acrylic) window. If that doesn't work, try gasoline. Don't use benzene, acetone, paint thinner, etc, as that *will* damage.
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Yup. Expensive by the gallon that way, though.
Charcoal lighter fluid will probably work as well:
'Stuff is extremely volatile and flammable. Use outdoors with adequate personal protection and safeguards.
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I thought he had 3 specks on an LCD screen, not gonna de-asphalt his driveway. ;)
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Naphtha is an amazing cleaner.
I took three dried eggs off my car door in only a few minutes using naphtha a few weeks ago. It left the finish untouched.
'Would have been difficult to do with anything less.
Once you discover naphtha, you find all kinds of uses for it.
:)
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I'll give it a shot in the freezer. Yep, "attack" is likely the outcome.
Who threw the eggs at you?
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My car was the target, not me.
I don't know who decorated my car.
I assume it is just kids enjoying a few harmless, innocent 'youthful indiscretions'.
My neighbor across the street got her car door egg'd the same way a month earlier, so I don't think it's personal.
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Mineral spirits, then maybe Windex.
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You don't dump the meter into it. :) He didn't say WHERE the tar is on the meter. If it's on the soft plastic over the display, the tar remover should be fine. If not, denatured alcohol and a Q-tip may work, but slowly.
Everyone else was suggesting Naphtha, which is a petroleum distillate like the tar remover.
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I thought it was a coal distillate, coke oven byproduct.
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It works a treat!
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