Cleaning and Stain Removal - Pen ink in dryer drum

Hi,... first posting, pardon booboos. Need help ridding dryer drum of leaked out pen ink from ball point! I already used nail polish remover, which helped to a degree, but there are still long dark blue streaks inside, they do not come off on clothes, but are unsightly! Any tips?

Try denatured alcohol on a soft cloth. Keep wiping the stain until no more ink comes off. Then take a clean damp cloth and remove the alcohol. Please be careful when using any flammable liquid in a dryer. It could cause an explsion or fire. Good luck.

Cheap hairspray seems to remove any type of ink. I learned this when I worked in groceries and we got pricing ink on our clothes. Be sure to wipe afterwards with a wet (water) rag and let it air out before using dryer.

Timinindy's advice may work however I would suggest you spray it on a rag and wipe rather than spraying it in the dryer drum.

Stick with majakdragon's first post. The ingredient in hairspray that dissolves ink is alcohol, but it also contains other ingredients like lacquer which can interfere with the ink removal.

Thanks on the tips, but what is denatured alcohol? For removing pen ink from dryer drum...is it like rubbing alcohol?

Rubbing alcohol is also known as isopropryl alcohol, which is a from of butyl alcohol and has four carbons in the molecule. What you drink as liquor is ehtyl alochol, which has two carbons. Ethyl alcohol is a fantastic cleaner and disinfectant, but it's use is highly regulated and taxed, so using it as a cleaning agent has some financial drawbacks. To get around this, ingredients are added to ethyl alcohol making it undrinkable. This is denatured alcohol. Either rubbing alcohol or denatured ethyl alcohol will dissolve ink.

Always apply any cleaner used inside dryer drum to a rag first. Rubbing alcohol, which is the mildest household solvent and often quite handy, is recommended for ballpoint ink removal. Allow surface to dry and odors to dissipate. Throw in a couple old towels to assure that no ink comes off on laundry. Any remaining ink stain on dryer drum will not affect laundry and may disappear over time.

While trying every solvent based suggestion on this and other sites, and having very little luck, it occurred to me that the issue was a stained enamel painted metal surface. What was needed was to renew the paint. I used automotive rubbing compound and a brillo pad to quickly take the stain out of the very top layer of the paint. I suppose that I could have used a rag and taken a little longer if I was interested in a mirror surface on the inside of the dryer.

My dryer looks new, with absolutely no traces of the ink. In addition I did not have to worry about fumes, and any residual rubbing compound wipes off with a damp rag. The whole job took 20 minutes.