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.
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.
Good to know! have a bunch of rods that have that funky Roe Patina, I think that was a song...
Quote from: steelhead_killer on January 09, 2017, 04:36:12 PM
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.
Canola is also good for removing the sticky goo left by some labels on rods etc.
I use wd40 to get off sticky residue. Never would've tried Canola Oil.
It laughed at W-40.
And in my case, so did the roe goo.
It is some of the most tenacious stuff I have ever had to deal with.
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
I have always contended that NASA used it to glue the tiles on the Space Shuttles!!!
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.