Eucalyptus oil for speed glue?

Hi All,

Here is my experience with Eucalyptus oil so far. I was REALLY excited about its potential after reading this thread yesterday and decided to try it out for myself. I went and bought 2 1-fl bottles of pure Eucalyptus oil made by NOW foods for $7.50 at GNC last night. I came home and peeled off my Stiga Optimum MP rubber from one of my blade and tried to clean up the glue at first. I used Orange Goo Gone spray and it worked pretty well in terms of breaking up the glue. Just make sure to not have the Goo Gone get onto the top sheet. Some Goo Gone got on the top sheet of my Optimum MP rubber and caused some "bubbling" effects (however that seems to go away after I washed it off with dishwashing detergent). Anyhow, after washing the rubber with dishwashing detergent to remove the Goo Gone and to cleaned off the remaing glue, I dried the rubber with paper towels and proceeded to brush on the Eucalyptus oil (straight from the bottle - no dilution). I really did not see any doming occur after waiting for about 10 minutes. I tried to dry up the sponge even more with paper towels thinking that it was still wet from being washed earlier. I then applied the 2nd layer of E-oil, waited a little while with no doming effect seen, applied the 3rd layer, I saw just a little doming on the rubber and was being hopeful that it would dome more overnight. I woke up and checked on the rubber at 6:00 am this morning and I was disappointed to see that the rubber was completely FLAT. I decided to rub some E-oil on the topsheet to see what happen. It did get dried up (not sure through absorption or evaporation) quickly and the rubber shows just a tad of doming around the edge. I then decided to give the sponge another application of E-oil. To my disappointment, it seemed to have no effect on the rubber. No doming effect what so ever. So� after 4 layers of Eucalyptus-oil on the sponge and 1 layer on the topsheet, my Stiga Optimum MP rubber is FLAT like a tortilla just came off of the press at Don Pablo's Restaurant. :((

Sorry for the long post but my experience with Eucalyptus oil so far has been rather disappointing. I am not sure if it was because I washed the rubber before I treated it with E-oil and some of the water soaked into the sponge and that caused the E-oil treatment to have no effect. I thought if there was any water left in the sponge it would have dried up and evaporate overnight and I would see some effect from the E-oil when I applied the 4th layer this morning. Anyhow, I will try the E-oil experiment again on my previously-EE2 treated STAG rubbers tonight after my practice to see what happen. I will not be washing the rubbers this time to rule out that factor. I will share with you the results. Cheers to all.