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ok, so on the looooong shot that someone finds themselves in this situation heres what not to do.

scenario;
i have a mouse situation in my home, ive just about completed the rodent genocide but still have about 6 glue traps in my kitchen to ensure complet destruction of these horrid lil bastards.
got a late night invite to do some early morning jumps with the boys so got my gear out to pack up and try to get some sleep. (you know where this is going im sure)
yup you guessed it! lay the canopy out right into a fucking glue trap! if anyone has dealt with these things you know it must be the most adhesive material known to man. i tried to pull a dead mouse of one and his skin and leg came off before he did.
anyways.... the sight of this trap in my canopy was pretty much as bad as seeing your wife getting gang fucked by homeless people. imo.
so after a loud "MOTHERFUCKER COCK SUCKER!" i began the task at hand. it was like something out of jerry lewis movie. the more i pulled the more my hands got stuck in the fray. at last i managed to get it just about free pulling with everything i had and my grip slipped off punching myself in the mouth and the glue trap now finding a new home in another part of the canopy! "FUCKING COCK SUCKIN WHORE!"
lets speed this up... 30 mins later....
trapp is canopy free and ive diligently removed all the adhesive with careful technique while fantasizing how much the next mouse is going to suffer for my stupidity.
ahhhh! freedom at last.... finaly...

or so i thought.....walk up the lines

yep, found another one.

goddammit.

Vegetable oil, lots of it.

lol... my dog was running around with one of those things stuck to his neck for about a week.
blow guns are ideal for inside rodent elimination...
great fun.

DUDE. blowguns solve and create infinate problems.

I lived in denver burbs for a year with the crew, neighbors never figured out why their ANNOYING USELESS DOGS stopped liking the backyard. fucking dogs.

holy shit... i think i hit a nerve. what's not to like about dogs? were you attacked when you were a wee one??

blanks or projectiles with that stick?

they were barking all day and all night. so, we made them associate barking with pain. it actually solved the problem for the most part. they stayed away from our fence. we did try and do the neighborly things by asking them to control their dogs, did not work.

no darts, but we did shoot slugs at them. (non-lethal, like a paintball)

fuck man...if that happens again gimme a call that's the kind of thing you can call me at 2am about. Good move not to use anything wierd on the canopy, if it's not punctured or pierced f111 is amazingly reziliant to what it can take **see emergency duct-tape repair in the field @Kjerag lasting 10 jumps.** Canopy still shows no signs of adhesive ever being on it -because it never came in contact with any wierd-ass "removing agent or aide" NEVER EVER EVER use any WD-40 type product or your canopy material -nothing that comes in a metal can or makes you high when you huff it.

the sight of this trap in my canopy was pretty much as bad
as seeing your wife getting gang fucked by homeless people

Fucking Hilarious Dude!!!

Sorry for your troubles but thanks for the laughs.

Oh, and I love dogs but hate Jerry Lewis' acting.

Poynter's parachute manual describes what solvents are fine with the canopy. There are some very appropriate strong solvents that remarkably won't hurt nylon. Gasoline used to be fine years ago before they started putting corrosive additives in it. I think rubbing alcohol may work fine but consult the manual or knowledgable (master) rigger for advice. If it comes down to it, as you know, it may require amputation followed by patch repair.

yourwelcome. i agree jerry lewis is pretty fucking retarded and not in a good way. perfect example of the generational gap.

thanks mr diveout i will call next time. since i didnt know what to use i used nothing but effort. i took a cotton dish towel and rubbed the adhesive until it was full of the fibers from the towel. it then could be rolled into little snot like balls and picked off the canopy. it seemed to have left a slight oily trace in the heavier spots but at least it was my ragged out flik and not my brand new blackjack!

dude.

i havent laughed like that on the board since magot was around.

thanks for that.
-b

Damn... only a master rigger huh? Guess people like Kelly Farrington are out of the question .

Naptha, 3M General Purpose Adhesive Cleaner, all work well to clean parachuting components. None of those products harm the material. Rubbing alcohol won't hurt it but I've never tried it with adhesives. Believe it or not, lighter fluid is used quite a bit as well.

Naptha and 3M General Purpose Adhesive Cleaner can be bought at Ace Hardware or equivalent. Auto Parts or paint shops will have it.

Carbo-Sol was discontinued in January of 2006. Too bad it was a high polluter because it worked great.