Cleaning up nasty Apples

[Stingray <stingray@webzone.net>]

Here's an unsolicited tip that might come in handy: I've been picking up
quite a bit of extremely cheap A2 stuff at the local thrift stores
lately, someone must be dumping their old equiptment, and most of it is
extra nasty looking. Now, I've always prided myself on being able to
clean up this stuff pretty well, I used to use a polishing compound,
followed by soap and water, and finally straight water to rinse it all
off. Of course I did this with the unit completely disassembled, working
on only the plastic exterior parts. This process is pretty time
consuming. However, I recently got a very disgusting looking IIe, and
figured I had nothing to lose by experimenting, since I already have
several of these old troopers. Playing around with different things I
have around the house, I stumbled onto a pretty unlikely cleaning
solution for my grungy Apples: windshield washing fluid! It takes off
all that ground-in unidentifiable black stuff that gets into the texture
on a computer case, no problem, and very little elbow grease. Also it
doesn't affect the plastic in any way that I can tell, like some
solvents do. Give it a try next time you have a real cruddy one to clean
up, a gallon only cost about three bucks. Pretty neat stuff.

Stingray

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OK, anyone who read my suggestion for removing monitor sratches probably
thinks I have some kind of windshield fixation, I assure you that the
windshield and I are just friends :-)