Dang..........

My wife inadvertently ran a jacket with a ball point pen in a pocket through the washer and drier.

Now the drum of the drier has spots of blue ball point ink scattered inside. I've tried all manner of household cleaners, rubbing alcohol, etc., and the only thing I can find that will cut it and clean it is lacquer thinner.

Does anyone else know of anything that will clean it up more easily? I'd like to find something that I can spray on and scrub. Oven cleaner, maybe?

(quoted from post at 09:04:19 06/19/16) My wife inadvertently ran a jacket with a ball point pen in a pocket through the washer and drier.

Now the drum of the drier has spots of blue ball point ink scattered inside. I've tried all manner of household cleaners, rubbing alcohol, etc., and the only thing I can find that will cut it and clean it is lacquer thinner.

Does anyone else know of anything that will clean it up more easily? I'd like to find something that I can spray on and scrub. Oven cleaner, maybe?

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I would try acetone for the ink marks.

I don't think you want oven cleaner (lye) in there.

I've used "OOPS" or spray carburetor cleaner. Good ventilation is a MUST!

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or toluene perhaps.

I would try Goof Off. It is common in the little cans but you can find larger containers of it in the paint department of a big box.

Hair spray

acetone is my go-to product for anything like that. Don't know if it'll work, but I'd be surprised if it didn't.

Done the same thing a few months back. I used GooGone and got it all off.

Be careful of the fumes and the possability of fire! That said I use carb cleaner a lot to clean stuff. Now that will burn !!

i'd think twice about the oops, stinkinest stuff this side of he??

A fellow at Home Depot recommended that to my wife this afternoon. We bought some, but haven't tried it yet.

Blue windshield washer solvent. One time I has a ink pen leak inside of the pocket of a new real expensive white dress shirt and I tried everything, and nothing worked. The washer and drier were out in the garage and on the shelf above it was a jug of blue windshield washer solvent, and I don't know what made me try it, but I did. I poured some over the shirt pocket and the ink started running immediately. What the heck, a jug was only 99 cents so I poured the whole jug in the wash water, thankfully all whites. Pulled the shirt out after wash cycle, not one hint of ink in the pocket. I tried it a couple more times over the years, it works. BE CAREFUL THOUGH. Say you have a white shirt or something of the sort and it has any colors what so ever, a logo or something. You use washer fluid on it and when you pull it out, it WILL be white...no colors what so ever. Logos, everything of color gone. Trust me, I've done it just before a NASCAR race I was working at. The track had given me a nice white shirt with a colored NASCAR logo on it. It had hung in the closet from the last years race, so when I washed it, I wanted it real white...jug of windshield washer fluid. When I pulled it our after washing, it was white, white, white...and so was the NASCAR logo. The stitching was still there, logo bleached completely white.

Take a rag, soak it in windshield washer solvent, give the drier a good wipe. In the washer, fill the washer with water, dump in a jug of washer solvent and soap, run it through it cycle, empty it, fill it full of water and run it through its rinse cycle, should be good. $1.00, $2.00, $3.00 for a jug of washer solvent, what do you have to lose?

Mark