Removing salmon egg goo.

[Keta]

I was sent 14 spinning reels to clean and service and they were covered in salmon egg goo, clear down to the drag washers.  This stuff should be used for glue.  I tried everything and warm Corrosion X and a stiff brush sort of worked.  I use canola oil for cutting oil when drilling stainless and decided to give it a try...wow!  It disolves the tar like egg goo and cut the clean up time by an hour per reel.

[RiverAngler]

Good to know, Lee. I use roe for sturgeon bait, and yeah. It's a PITA to remove after it's dry, I'll give that a try.

[steelhead_killer]

Good to know!  have a bunch of rods that have that funky Roe Patina, I think that was a song...

[Bryan Young]

Good to know!  have a bunch of rods that have that funky Roe Patina, I think that was a song...

Andy, you're killing me.  hahahahahahahaha.

Thanks Lee.  Good to know. 

[theswimmer]

Canola is also good for removing the sticky goo left by some labels on rods etc.

[MarkT]

I use wd40 to get off sticky residue.  Never would've tried Canola Oil.

[Keta]

It laughed at W-40.

[RiverAngler]

And in my case, so did the roe goo. 

[Keta]

It is some of the most tenacious stuff I have ever had to deal with.

[Bill B]

In the early 70's my mom used to vegetable oil to remove tar from our feet after a day at the beach in Oxnard.  Tar was a hassle seeping from all the oil derricks in the Santa Barbara Channel.... Bill

[hurt locker]

I have always contended that NASA used it to glue the tiles on the Space Shuttles!!!

[David Hall]

Pretty sure I still have some clothes from my teenage years that have been washed 2000 times and still have salmon egg goo on them.