Best way to clean cigarette nicatine off the cans?

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Best way to clean cigarette nicatine off the cans?

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Anyone have good success cleaning nicotine off of cans other than using water and a paper towel?


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Sea Monkey wrote: Fri Apr 07, 2017 4:44 pm Anyone have good success cleaning nicotine off of cans other than using water and a paper towel?
Warm soapy water, use Dawn regular dish detergent.
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SIMPLE GREEN WORKS WELL TOO
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I hold them in my lap for 20 hours while humming the theme to Bonanza. I get mixed results but the cans seem pleased.
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Be careful w. Simple Green Scott,

Dilute, dilute, dilute.

I've torched two cans with regular household cleaners (Simple Green screwing one for me), but admittedly the cans I torched were the same. Inverted Old Style conetops, flat bottom. I think in 1935, somebody Geo. Heileman's must have thought it wise to use 'chalk-based' paint, because their paint sucked. +75 yrs. later, Simple Green caused the paint to run after very a dilute mix. Then I tried using Windex.... What possessed me to do that.....I think it was panic....yielding equally stupid results. Talk about learnin' the hard way.

If it's 50's paint, you should be ok.
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Re: Best way to clean cigarette nicatine off the cans?

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Many of these cans were collected in the early to mid 70's. I'm assuming they sat in a house with smokers. And yes,I know my love of Flitz borders on annoying...but here is an example.
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