How to remove dried adhesive from trowel?

[lucius]

Be carefull with the acid it can damage the trowels try soaking them in vinegar for a couple of days it should fall of just makes them go black but dosent harm the trowel

 

[Sean Kelly]

I put one of my bucket trowels into a bucket of [FONT=Open Sans, arial, sans-serif]phosphoric acid for a few days. Trowel is now too bendy to hold addy! I find it's quite therapeutic cleaning trowels and tools. The acid will work, but don't leave it soaking for too long. [/FONT]

 

[dingabell]

Right, I'll ignore the acid and try the angle grinder tomorrow. If that doesn't work it won't matter as he'll probably be asked nicely to have my old ones and get me some new ones. Good job I didn't lend him my wet cutter as well.

 

[J Sid]

I tried an angle grinder on one of mine 3 years ago, it slipped and put a 4" gash in my thigh, no blood and no pain but went down to the bone. An evening in A&E stitching up muscles and flesh. BE CAREFULL !!!! Just buy a new one only £8

 

[judge]

Im sure b n q will sell one of them plastic spreaders to replace youre trowel with .......soz, couldnt resit it :sofahide:

 

[cam_low]

Angle grinders tend to build up heat and curve up

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

I put one of my bucket trowels into a bucket of phosphoric acid for a few days. Trowel is now too bendy to hold addy! I find it's quite therapeutic cleaning trowels and tools. The acid will work, but don't leave it soaking for too long.

wrong acid ! sulphuric is best ,and the stronger you get the quicker it takes to clean them .......

 

[Michele]

Don't know if I was just lucky. I used a serving spoon to scrape old tile adhesive out of a container, and did not clean it right away. It sat for several days, at least 4. It wouldn't scrape off, so I soaked it in dish soap. After a few minutes I used the hard plastic edge of a sponge-on-a-stick, and little bits started coming off. I kept adding more soap and moisture and attacking with the plastic.

I may have benefited from the shape of the spoon being curved, but it's clean now, took maybe 20 minutes total. And I am relieved.

 

[Tile Shop]

I used to be a bit of a bugger for not cleaning up after myself. But now slowly getting in the habit of having a couple of buckets of clean water by my side with sponges and brushes for cleaning tools/tiles/joints as I'm going.

Before then I used to scrape as much adhesive back into the bucket as possible, but never cleaned off the residue. I used a hand held rubbing block to clean it up. Grinder in very extreme cases.

 

[Kyle Knowles]

A bucket with brick acid and everything comes out clean as