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Cleaning mirrors !!!
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any one got a whizzo tip for cleaning large mirrors (e.g wardrobe doors) ? I have tried vinegar, washing up liquid, milton, glass cleaner (tried that 1st actually :-)) .... regards |
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Jethro_uk wrote:
Hi all any one got a whizzo tip for cleaning large mirrors (e.g wardrobe doors) ? I have tried vinegar, washing up liquid, milton, glass cleaner (tried that 1st actually :-)) .... regards Chalk board duster and then a wipe with a dustfree cloth. :-) ahem! I hear they are going missing in schools. -- Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite |
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Jethro_uk wrote:
Hi all any one got a whizzo tip for cleaning large mirrors (e.g wardrobe doors) ? I have tried vinegar, washing up liquid, milton, glass cleaner (tried that 1st actually :-)) .... IME it's not so much what chemical you use to clean them as the absorbency of the wiper material. Kitchen roll works a treat - the objective is to use something that absorbs the cleaner before it dries on the mirror surface. Dave |
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I use Mr Muscle window cleaner and kitchen towel
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purple pete wrote:
I use Mr Muscle window cleaner and kitchen towel Do wear a vest as well. ;-) -- Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite |
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On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 22:50:55 GMT, The3rd Earl Of Derby wrote:
ahem! I hear they are going missing in schools. Haven't been in school for a while have you. The only chalk in our local primary is in the art box. All active white boards and computer projectors now. As for cleaning mirrors, elbow grease. IMHO you can't do it properly in one pass, clean with what ever gets the muck off, then clean the cleaner off, then polish. Kitchen roll is good for the polishing, just ever so slighly damp, start dry it'll pick up more than enough moisture from the glass. -- Cheers Dave. pam is missing e-mail |
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On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 23:08:27 GMT, "david lang"
wrote: Kitchen roll works a treat Kitchen roll isn't dust free. Blue paper garage roll is better. If you're a mirror salesman, you start to notice this. Newsprint (no coloured ink) is great for _cleaning_ them, but if you want to leave them spotless, you need something really dust free. Either meths or about 25% isopropanol works as a cleaner. |
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Andy Dingley wrote: On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 23:08:27 GMT, "david lang" wrote: Kitchen roll works a treat Kitchen roll isn't dust free. Blue paper garage roll is better. If you're a mirror salesman, you start to notice this. Newsprint (no coloured ink) is great for _cleaning_ them, but if you want to leave them spotless, you need something really dust free. Either meths or about 25% isopropanol works as a cleaner. |
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Meths really is an amazingly good solvent - and cheap. I use a bit of
kitchen roll soaked in meths to clean glass in the windows I make. |
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"david lang" wrote in message k... Jethro_uk wrote: Hi all any one got a whizzo tip for cleaning large mirrors (e.g wardrobe doors) ? I have tried vinegar, washing up liquid, milton, glass cleaner (tried that 1st actually :-)) .... IME it's not so much what chemical you use to clean them as the absorbency of the wiper material. Kitchen roll works a treat - the objective is to use something that absorbs the cleaner before it dries on the mirror surface. During recruit-training in the RAF we cleaned a lot of glass ... hut's windows and mirrors. What worked ... or stopped the DI screaming at us ... was ... newspaper! Scrunch newspaper into balls and, vigorously, polish off the water-vinegar cleaning solution. Discard used paper and scrunch up another pair of pages as necessary. IMHO, broadsheets work best ... . One theory advanced was that the black newsprint was actually deposited into microscopic scratches/imperfections on the glass surface and produced a more perfect (shiny) surface. -- Brian |
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in 453927 20051004 084641 Stuart Noble wrote:
wrote: Meths really is an amazingly good solvent - and cheap. I use a bit of kitchen roll soaked in meths to clean glass in the windows I make. Try fine wire wool. No liquid required. Shaving foam and a towel works great! |
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On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 07:38:42 GMT, "Brian Sharrock"
wrote: [snip] During recruit-training in the RAF we cleaned a lot of glass ... hut's windows and mirrors. What worked ... or stopped the DI screaming at us ... was ... newspaper! Scrunch newspaper into balls and, vigorously, polish off the water-vinegar cleaning solution. Discard used paper and scrunch up another pair of pages as necessary. IMHO, broadsheets work best ... . One theory advanced was that the black newsprint was actually deposited into microscopic scratches/imperfections on the glass surface and produced a more perfect (shiny) surface. I'll second that. Works a treat but be careful of rubbing any surrounding edges with it as it can mark light coloured surfaces. I use it all the time and it can be better than kitchen paper towels are they tend to disintegrate and be dusty. Rob Replace 'spam' with 'org' to reply |
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"Jethro_uk" wrote in message . uk... Hi all any one got a whizzo tip for cleaning large mirrors (e.g wardrobe doors) ? I have tried vinegar, washing up liquid, milton, glass cleaner (tried that 1st actually :-)) .... regards We use microfibre cloths - no liquid required. They work a treat and can be used to clean car windows too. Give a great clean with no smears. All the best, Jo |
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