A nice long soaking

[brob28]

Guys, thank you for all the advice. I'm going to start with a 61 Koufax that has tape residue down the left and right borders. It's not in great condition anyway, so no real risk of trashing a high dollar card. If my results are worthwhile I'll share some pics. Thanks again for all the great information shared on this awesome site.

[Mikehealer]

Bill I wouldn't soak a Topps card. I wouldn't think they would do very well in water. Try a t206 beater if you are looking to do a test run.

[FrankWakefield]

A 1961 Topps will not soak. The card will separate apart. Don't soak it.

[rhettyeakley]

Bill, you are not going to have success soaking in water to get rid of a tape stain. Water is a solvent, but not everything is soluble in water--tape adhesive is generally not water soluble...there are other solvents out there that may result in a decent removal of tape adhesive and/or residue but I don't know that you will have much success if the card itself is stained from the adhesive.

Soaking starts getting much trickier when you start looking at 1930/40's to the present. With the introduction of industrial adhesives you will begin to have much less luck with simple water soaking. For example if anything is put in with rubber cement soaking will not do you any good.
-Rhett

Here is the Koesters Brown cleaned up

[BleedinBlue]

Any thoughts, tips or concerns with soaking 1941 Goudey cards?

[Ease]

Looks like that turned out nicely. Good job Andrew!

[FrankWakefield]

If that was your first soak, I don't doubt that you worried quite a bit... needlessly. Thanks for posting the visual proof of the good results, so others will see the wisdom of it (for cards that will safely soak).