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It doesn't work for backpacks that might have the company name embroidered on, but for cheaper print-on-demand items like hats and water bottles, acetone will cause the logo to dissolve or shift.
That says, I have personally removed embroidered logos from clothes before, when the product itself is excellent but aesthetically ruined by a logo. It's very finnicky work with a seam ripper, and has gained me a lot of nice thrift store finds.
i like doing this to pretty much everything i own that can have the logo removed.
hate the coarse plastic they use now, where the acetone will sort of "polish" it and it will look ugly as fuck.
Yep, sometimes acetone will do that. But other times, another solvent like gasoline might do the trick. Or maybe a heat gun.
I see it as an engineering challenge, how to best remove intrusive logos from stuff. IMO, all this is part-and-parcel to the second part of: reduce, reuse, recycle. Also, sometimes certain logos can be clipped in very creative ways haha