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how do I get tar out? - 1/14/2010 2:48:44 PM   
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Status: offline 		I dug a bottle full of a tar like substance and it wont dissolve in lighter fluid, paint thinner or peroxide, hot water softens it, but I don't want to boil the bottle for fear of breaking it... any suggestions?
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RE: how do I get tar out? - 1/14/2010 2:55:27 PM   
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RE: how do I get tar out? - 1/14/2010 4:37:24 PM   
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RE: how do I get tar out? - 1/14/2010 6:47:37 PM   
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Status: offline 		I know for sure this worked for a friend. Buy paint remover in gel form. Put the gel in the bottle filling haft of bottle that is tar free and then allow it to stand for two weeks. After two weeks take a wooden dowel rod and stir the gel and weakened tar together then pour out all content the will come out and fill with new clean gel. Repeat process ever two week till tar is completely gone. In my friend case it took eight week to get the whole bottle tar free. Hope this will help you. Let us know how it goes.

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RE: how do I get tar out? - 1/14/2010 6:54:59 PM   
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Status: online 		That resembles the Drano™ technique I used last summer on a gunked-up Hostetters.. I also used a wooden dowel to excite the action and pull semi-dissolved gunk out.. took about a month, but it did work.. 

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RE: how do I get tar out? - 1/14/2010 7:17:52 PM   
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Status: offline 		I'd try acetone. It might take some time, but I'll bet it would work.

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RE: how do I get tar out? - 1/14/2010 9:07:46 PM   
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Status: offline 		I never tired it but ive wanted to give goo-gone a chance. If you end up tryin that stuff let us know how it works out

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RE: how do I get tar out? - 1/14/2010 9:13:57 PM   
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RE: how do I get tar out? - 1/14/2010 10:06:55 PM   
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RE: how do I get tar out? - 1/14/2010 11:23:18 PM   
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Status: offline 		Yep gasoline and a stick. Try to stir the stuff with the gas in the bottle. It will take some time but it worked for me. Good luck

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RE: how do I get tar out? - 1/15/2010 12:51:24 AM   
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RE: how do I get tar out? - 1/15/2010 10:30:56 AM   
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Status: offline 		I had a bottle with thick ink.Try soaking it with nail polish remover. Put foil or plastic over the top so it doesn`t evaporate too fast.Let it sit overnite and it should start to loosen it.You have to break it up with a stick or dowel.I think I used rubbing alcohol also.Patience is Key.Good luck.

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RE: how do I get tar out? - 1/15/2010 10:49:50 PM   
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I had a bottle with thick ink.Try soaking it with nail polish remover. Put foil or plastic over the top so it doesn`t evaporate too fast.Let it sit overnite and it should start to loosen it.You have to break it up with a stick or dowel.I think I used rubbing alcohol also.Patience is Key.Good luck.


Nail polish uses acetone for the solvent. Better and cheaper to just use acetone. Acetone disolves most plastic, so I'd use foil. And yes, acetone does evaporate very quickly.
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RE: how do I get tar out? - 1/16/2010 5:00:03 PM   
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Status: offline 		I have used gasoline before and it worked great!

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RE: how do I get tar out? - 1/16/2010 5:09:25 PM   
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Status: offline 		WD-40 will disolve tar and asphalt.

Muratic acid will melt about anything too, but be careful.

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RE: how do I get tar out? - 1/22/2010 6:24:36 PM   
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Status: offline 		I've found Plate Maratex to be the best cleaner for tar,pine sap, dried paint etc..

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RE: how do I get tar out? - 1/22/2010 7:50:49 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hello. If water softens it, then don't bother with any petroleum based solvents...remember the old saying, like dissolves like. Because water softens it, it's not tar. I've had very good luck with the ammonia washing solution you can get at the grocery store, and its cheap. You do need patience though. Fill the bottle with the ammonia solution, put a cover of some type on it, and let it sit for a week...or two...or three. Check on it and stir occasionally, as you may need to change the solution as it dissolves the gunk.

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RE: how do I get tar out? - 1/23/2010 1:09:27 AM   
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Status: offline 		Yep, like Richard said...WD40 will get it out. It will also get tar, bugs, glue and water spots of your car without hurting your paint. 

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RE: how do I get tar out? - 1/23/2010 5:28:28 PM   
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Status: offline 		For ancient tar, I have used Carbo-Sol (Trichloroethylene) with great success. I had a small glue cauldron with a wrought handle that had lots of tar, as well as an ancient end of a broken paintbrush stuck in the bottom. I heated it to melt what I could, scraped that out, then swirled some carbosol in there and the transformation was amazing. Within seconds the tar was gone, including the hardened 100 year old tar near the top edge of the cauldron, leaving a clean metal surface behind. No scrubbing necessary; mere contact was enough to dissolve it almost instantly. Carbo-Sol may be hard to find now due to environmental restrictions, but if you can obtain it it would be the best.

No solvent I have used before works through hydrocarbons with such speed and efficacy.

2nd suggestion would be Acetone, Gasoline, or other volitile mineral spirits.


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RE: how do I get tar out? - 1/26/2010 5:13:34 PM   
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Status: offline 		as previously mentioned, I use petrol too.

it is quite excellent at dissolving tar.

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