[78-L] Cleaning lacquers

[Michael Biel]

maceo wrote:
> It's wabbit season!
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> I made up a blend from the old Library of Congress formula, a wetting 
> agent in distilled water, if you need the formula I can try and find it?
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> Cheers.
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> Gary
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Could that be Kodak Lens Cleaner, aluminum somethingorother, as Chris 
Payton in Georgia wrote about in the ARSC Journal?

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  
> Cary Ginell wrote:
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>> I'll be vewy, vewy qwiet. 
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>> Cawy Ginell
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>>> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:22:54 -0400
>>> From: dlennick at sympatico.ca
>>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Cleaning lacquers
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>>> I'm going to say this very softly, knowing that Dr. Duane will scream, but 
>>> believe me, this works very well on the white stuff that appears on lacquer 
>>> discs (palmitic acid) as long as you give it another cleaning with distilled 
>>> water....
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>>> Windex.
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>>> The original blue formula, not the supermarket generic, not the extra strength.
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>>> Shhhh.
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>>> Cary Ginell wrote:
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>>>> How does one clean lacquers? I have a collection of them and some have what looks like mold on the grooves. 
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>>>> These date from the late '40s to the early '60s.
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>>>> Cary Ginell
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