Show Us Your Stickers

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Petrol is good for the rough stuff, a wooden scraper to scrape off stickers and finally polish the surface with an old handkerchief and lighter fluid.
This works great on aluminum, but also with plastic CD cases.
All ugly stickers and adhesive traces can be removed completely without damaging the surface.

I have a Lenovo that Goo be Gone not only took off the goo from a Windows sticker, it took off the color.

It will dull a shiny finish but some polishing compound should bring back the shine

Shine shmine, what about the color? It went from black to a dirty white.

[absque fenestris]

This is due to the coloring quality of the plastic used and is a botch-up by the manufacturer.
Last year, I refurbished an Acer laptop that was about 13 years old and heavily defaced with stickers. The base color was a very dark gray.
After the petroleum treatment, the lid looked a bit worn out, but the stickers had left surprisingly few traces (no discoloration) which speaks for the plastic quality. A post-treatment with beeswax brought the whole thing back to an acceptable condition.
Bad luck if the surface has a rubbery coating.

[majpooper]

I tried all manner of things from tips on the Internet to include letting the sticker residue soak in mayo. I have not tried anything like paint thinner however. Goo be Gone has been my go to - even for removing some of the emblems on the last few cars I bought (got that from the Internet as well) - no damage to the paint. I never had it actually remove the color pigment from the few laptops I used it on though. The old MacBook was so bad that I used a very mild sand paper on it and like I said polished it back not unlike plastic models -that's where I got the idea from.

[MurphCID]

I have had good luck using a hairdryer and then just regular isopropyl rubbing alcohol.

[Michael_Hathaway]

I created this sticker in Photoshop, running in Linux Mint.

[Lady Fitzgerald]

I created this sticker in Photoshop, running in Linux Mint.

OK! Creating one's own sticker; that's just cool!

[MurphCID]

I created this sticker in Photoshop, running in Linux Mint.

OK! Creating one's own sticker; that's just cool!

I agree, very cool. I find stickers give me an unquantifiable minor quantum speed and attractiveness increase...

[Lady Fitzgerald]

...I find stickers give me an unquantifiable minor quantum speed and attractiveness increase...

I love how you worded that!

[MurphCID]

...I find stickers give me an unquantifiable minor quantum speed and attractiveness increase...

I love how you worded that!

It’s true, all true.

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Time to give this thread a jump start. While technically not a sticker, I just put an iron-on applique onto my Laptop bag.

I'll eventually need to stitch down the edges but, right now, I have a bad case of Ancient Chinese Disease ("Dragon" Arse)

In an effort to catch up with MurphCID, I added another sticker to my laptop lid. I still have a ways to go.

[MurphCID]

Nice, no one else? What a shame.

[MurphCID]

Any new sticker photos?

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Any new sticker photos?

Yes (albeit belatedly).

After getting Mint 19.3 "installed" on my "new" laptop (LT 2) and fixing most of the minor issues it has, it's time to improve performance (not to mention appearance) by sticker bombing it. I had only a few stickers on hand so I'll have to order some more but, for now, here are the ones I've installed for now.

This is the unadorned laptop.

These are the only stickers that came with LT 2. They had to go. This and the previous pictures were taken while I was updating the last data drive (actually, partition) from LT1's backup drives.

After peeling off those stickers (I have no idea what the one under the HDMI sticker was), it was time to deal with the potential privacy issue from the webcam and microphones. This label tape should do the job.

[Lady Fitzgerald]

I've installed the few stickers I had and the label tapes with my "cheat sheets" on the laptop. Note how I dealt with the unwanted Windows key.

That's all for now until I order some more stickers.

[MurphCID]

Stickers just make it look cool and give an undefinable quantum increase in speed.....

[MurphCID]

I've installed the few stickers I had and the label tapes with my "cheat sheets" on the laptop. Note how I dealt with the unwanted Windows key.


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That's all for now until I order some more stickers.

LOL, Just saw that sticker on the windows key!

[Termy]

I'm a firm believer in never putting stickers on a guitar, so that extends to my computers, or basically anything I own. I cannot stand stickers on things. Glad y'all enjoy them, but to me they sort of completly ruin the aesthetic of something. I guess I'm just boring like that. That being said, it's nice to see the Linux love, with all these penguin stickers.

[Lady Fitzgerald]

I'm a firm believer in never putting stickers on a guitar, so that extends to my computers, or basically anything I own. I cannot stand stickers on things. Glad y'all enjoy them, but to me they sort of completly ruin the aesthetic of something. I guess I'm just boring like that. That being said, it's nice to see the Linux love, with all these penguin stickers.

Hey, it's your stuff so do whatever you want with it; you'll get no grief from me. Using stickers isn't mandatory for everyone.

[majpooper]

I'm a firm believer in never putting stickers on a guitar, so that extends to my computers, or basically anything I own. I cannot stand stickers on things. Glad y'all enjoy them, but to me they sort of completly ruin the aesthetic of something. I guess I'm just boring like that. That being said, it's nice to see the Linux love, with all these penguin stickers.

Termy I with you but as they say "beauty is in the eye of the beholder"
I blacked out the chrome badges on my car because I think it looks bad a$$.
My wife's response; "you are not going to crap up my car like you do yours."

[antikythera]

I just removed all the stickers from my laptop, it looks more stealthy without the AMD and NVIDIA badges and the QR link for the user manual was just begging to go. I should have done it sooner though because the adhesive had cured and they were bugging me because they were slightly crooked. I ended up using one of the stickers that came off cleaner to pull the remaining adhesive that was left behind by the other stickers. The laptop is alloy so after I just wiped it with a very slightly damp microfibre cloth and it looks pristine.

On my old laptop I had a huge white tux (inverted line drawing outline version) and some logos from a few linux distributions and programs on the lid all sourced from stickermule.

Conversely on the rear of our cars, there is now a red vinyl welsh dragon since we got the current cars after it became illegal in the UK have that, a country code or any other graphic on the left of the numberplate like before.

Nice car maj, there was version of the Outback with the engine from the Impreza WRX but I don't know if they still make that.