Left a stick of gum in shirt pocket, washed the shirt, and ran it
through dryer.
As expected, the shirt was a bit of a mess, but the gum also left
a dark residue in small blotches scattered all over the inside of the
white dryer drum.
Any idea how to get this sticky and now hard residue off the
inside of the drum before m g/f discovers my goof?

On Sep 10, 9:51*pm, wrote:
* * *Left a stick of gum in shirt pocket, washed the shirt, and ran it
through dryer.
* * * As expected, the shirt was a bit of a mess, but the gum also left
a dark residue in small blotches scattered all over the inside of the
white dryer drum.
* * * *Any idea how to get this sticky and now hard residue off the
inside of the drum before m g/f discovers my goof?



Gum usually responds well to an ice cube. That makes it brittle & more
easily removed.

GOOGLE "remove gum"

Any idea how to get this sticky and now hard residue off the
inside of the drum before m g/f discovers my goof?

On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:51:51 -0400, wrote:

Left a stick of gum in shirt pocket, washed the shirt, and ran it
through dryer.
As expected, the shirt was a bit of a mess, but the gum also left
a dark residue in small blotches scattered all over the inside of the
white dryer drum.
Any idea how to get this sticky and now hard residue off the
inside of the drum before m g/f discovers my goof?

At the risk of making this a 500 post thread-- I'd use WD-40- then
dry a old towel in there if I didn't like the smell of WD-40.

Jim
[odorless turpentine would work, too-- but I'd have to go the store
for that]

On Sep 11, 5:41*am, Jim Elbrecht wrote:
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:51:51 -0400, wrote:
* * Left a stick of gum in shirt pocket, washed the shirt, and ran it
through dryer.
* * *As expected, the shirt was a bit of a mess, but the gum also left
a dark residue in small blotches scattered all over the inside of the
white dryer drum.
* * * Any idea how to get this sticky and now hard residue off the
inside of the drum before m g/f discovers my goof?

At the risk of making this a 500 post thread-- * I'd use WD-40- then
dry a old towel in there if I didn't like the smell of WD-40.

Jim
[odorless turpentine would work, too-- but I'd have to go the store
for that]


Did you consider that it might be a gas dryer, maybe even with a
pilot? That stuff could all go boom.

"Eric in North TX" wrote in message
...
On Sep 11, 5:41 am, Jim Elbrecht wrote:
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:51:51 -0400, wrote:
Left a stick of gum in shirt pocket, washed the shirt, and ran it
through dryer.
As expected, the shirt was a bit of a mess, but the gum also left
a dark residue in small blotches scattered all over the inside of the
white dryer drum.
Any idea how to get this sticky and now hard residue off the
inside of the drum before m g/f discovers my goof?

At the risk of making this a 500 post thread-- I'd use WD-40- then
dry a old towel in there if I didn't like the smell of WD-40.

Jim
[odorless turpentine would work, too-- but I'd have to go the store
for that]


Did you consider that it might be a gas dryer, maybe even with a
pilot? That stuff could all go boom.

4 posts and counting . . .

Peanut butter eats gum.


--
Dymphna
Message origin: www.TRAVEL.com

On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:57:22 -0700 (PDT), Eric in North TX
wrote:

On Sep 11, 5:41*am, Jim Elbrecht wrote:
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:51:51 -0400, wrote:
* * Left a stick of gum in shirt pocket, washed the shirt, and ran it
through dryer.
* * *As expected, the shirt was a bit of a mess, but the gum also left
a dark residue in small blotches scattered all over the inside of the
white dryer drum.
* * * Any idea how to get this sticky and now hard residue off the
inside of the drum before m g/f discovers my goof?

At the risk of making this a 500 post thread-- * I'd use WD-40- then
dry a old towel in there if I didn't like the smell of WD-40.

Jim
[odorless turpentine would work, too-- but I'd have to go the store
for that]


Did you consider that it might be a gas dryer, maybe even with a
pilot? That stuff could all go boom.

I doubt you'd get much of a boom. Worst case, a tiny, 'pfoof'.

Actually, my dryer is gas- and I think there is a pilot. I said
"I'd use. . ." - and I would. And I wouldn't concern myself in the
least about a couple spritz's of WD-40- a couple feet from, and
protected by a layer of steel, a small pilot light.

If I felt the need to spray the pilot assembly itself I might blow it
out first-- or maybe I'd try a spritz first for the hell of it.

If this was the most dangerous thing I'd done in my life I would have
died of boredom 50 yrs ago.

Jim

Wayne Boatwright wrote:
On Thu 10 Sep 2009 07:51:51p, told us...

Left a stick of gum in shirt pocket, washed the shirt, and ran it
through dryer.
As expected, the shirt was a bit of a mess, but the gum also left
a dark residue in small blotches scattered all over the inside of the
white dryer drum.
Any idea how to get this sticky and now hard residue off the
inside of the drum before m g/f discovers my goof?

This happened to us when my partner's son left a partial pack of gum in his
pants pocket when he did his laundry. I told him that he made the mess and
he would clean it up. I gave him a bottle of Goo Gone and a box of Mr. Clean
Magic Eraser Sponges. Worked like a charm.

Nice to see specific advice and a good outcome. Thanks.

FWIW, I put a blue ballpoint pen through the dryer years ago, in the
pocket of white nurse uniform. The uniforms had blue blotches all over,
but all came out without a trace with normal commercial dry cleaning.