Utterly Disappointing, The Scotch 3M 30-Sheet Mini Lint Roller Fails To Remove Lint!

The Good: Easy to use, Inexpensive
The Bad: Entirely ineffective against dog hair and most lint.
The Basics: The Scotch 3M 30-Sheet Mini Lint Roller left my wife and I hairy and distressed.


My wife and I like to look good – her more than me – and she usually takes very little to look absolutely amazing. I, on the other hand, am happy to go out as a schlub. However, I have been going on many job interviews lately and as a result, I have needed my clothes to look good. Between her and I and the fact that we have a Siberian Husky and two cats, we have needed a good lint roller. Unfortunately, the Scotch 3M 30-Sheet Mini Lint Roller is not a good lint roller.

The Scotch 3M 30-Sheet Mini Lint Roller is a tiny lint roller with disposable sticky patches designed to get lint and hair off clothes. It fails.

Measuring 6 ¼” long with a drum that is 1” in diameter, the Scotch 3M 30-Sheet Mini Lint Roller is a light black plastic handle with a rotating drum for the actual lint roller. The lint roller is essentially like a roll of paper towels (though much smaller) on its own handle where the “towel” is sticky and is used to adhere lint and hair to it in order to clean up clothes. Each of the sticky sheets on the Scotch 3M 30-Sheet Mini Lint Roller is a white tape square 3” tall and 2 3/4" wide. The piece of tape is somewhat stretchy when it is off the roll.

To use the Scotch 3M 30-Sheet Mini Lint Roller, simply remove the top layer of sticky tape and grab the light plastic handle with one hand. Then press the drum with the sticky tape on the clothes that have lint, dust, or hair on them. Gently pressing the Scotch 3M 30-Sheet Mini Lint Roller on clothes while letting the drum rotate should allow the user to remove lint and hair from their clothes. Unfortunately, while the first layer of dust and a little bit of lint might come up using the Scotch 3M 30-Sheet Mini Lint Roller, it leaves quite a bit more in the way of hair and lint. I wear a lot of dark clothes. My Siberian Husky gets a lot of light hair on them and, frankly, it is obvious when a lint roller works. Sadly, this one did not.

When one has gotten as much of the lint off one’s clothes as one can with the Scotch 3M 30-Sheet Mini Lint Roller, simply remove the outer layer of the sticky tape. I’ve never gotten more than one pass with the mini lint roller. Unfortunately, that cleans off, at best, a single sleeve. And it does not clean the sleeve off well. After a pass – or more – I have found my clothes still have hair and lint. The concept works, but the execution of this product does not.

Because of how ineffective the sticky patch is on the Scotch 3M 30-Sheet Mini Lint Roller, no matter how inexpensive they are, it is not worth picking this up.

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1/10

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The Perfect Adhesive In The Perfect Size: DAP Weldwood Contact Cement!

The Good: Durable bonding power, Reasonable size, Good price, Relatively easy to clean up
The Bad: Scent is irksome
The Basics: A wonderful adhesive for professional or semiprofessional use, DAP Weldwood Contact Cement is good to its work in connecting all sorts of materials to one another!


As many of my consistent readers know, I have taken up bookbinding as I work on furthering my non-reviewing career. To that end, there were several supplies I needed and a good contact cement was a principle one. For that, I picked up a quart of DAP Weldwood Contact Cement.

The metal paintcan-style container for the Contact Cement requires a paintcan canopener or flathead screwdriver to open and a brush, roller or other tool to dispense. I, personally, use foam brushes and I have discovered this works exceptionally well. My primary use for the DAP Weldwood Contact Cement was for adhering leather to bookstock cardboard and for that, the Contact Cement worked exceptionally well.

Use of DAP Weldwood Contact Cement is as simple as using any other rubber cement-type product. Start by preparing the items you want to stick together; they should be clear of all dust, dirt and debris. After opening the can, which will expose the user to a potent, sour scent (like rubber cement, but about a thousand times stronger), brush the Contact Cement onto the surfaces you want stuck together and press the items you want adhered to one another together and keep pressure on them for at least fifteen minutes.

DAP Weldwood Contact Cement is a thick, gooey substance that looks unfortunately like the worst, heaviest mucous one could imagine. It spreads fairly smoothly, but if one has too much on a brush or roller, it will form blobs which one might need to smooth out before they squeeze together the items they are adhering. With even brushstrokes, DAP Weldwood applies evenly and has the consistency of molasses.

Because the Contact Cement is petroleum-based, tools and brushes that get Weldwood Contact Cement on them must be cleaned using mineral spirits or paint thinner. So long as tools are cleaned within half an hour of use, I found no problems with getting this product off tools. When one is done using, the container ought to be resealed by firmly pounding the lid on with a rubber mallet. This prevents the fumes from spreading and the product from drying out.

DAP Weldwood Contact Cement dries sufficiently within fifteen minutes to allow me to take items stuck together with the Contact Cement to go onto the next step in the manufacturing process. While Weldwood promises to work on all sorts of surfaces from wood, leather, glass and metal to fiberglass and cork, the bulk of my experience has been with leather to cardboard and in a year, I have never had a book I have made come apart, nor have any of my clients (most of whom are artists who buy sketchbooks, so the covers get a workout!).

Later, I used some of the Contact Cement to reattach a floppy sole to my sneaker and the Contact Cement worked wonderfully, until the temperatures dropped. For some reason, that allowed my shoe to come undone again.

Even so, this is an amazing adhesive for professional use.

10/10

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