cleaning planer rollers

[brdmkr]

What is a safe solvent for removing pine sap from planer rollers?  I have been planing some heart pine and the resin is giving my rollers fits.  Will alcohol hurt the rollers?  They seem like some sort of rubber.

[Kevin_H.]

I have been using simple green to clean my blades on the gangsaw it seems to work real well, you might try that.

[VT]

I use citrol  Here:
http://www.schaefferoil.com/specialty/266_citrol.html

I put a  small spray amount on the rollers while running , and then cheap sponges under the rollers to run on while cleaning with more orange / citrol on them also, after i feel there clean , wash the sponges and then run the rollers on the sponges to clean the residue and leave the rollers clean. the odd Sponge gets planed , but no real damage.

I never would use any harsh solvent,alcohol or caustic on an unknown rubber / neoprene material . But if i found old rolllers that were just plain hard and no longer able to do there job , i would experiment with a neoprene renew chemical .

Here::  http://www.wytekdirect.com/rubber-renew-and-lable-remover.htm

VT.

Thats more like my style Jeff