Re: Cleaning up nasty Apples

[Liam Busey <liam1@ix.netcom.com>]

Stingray wrote:
> 
> 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.

I've never tried windshield fluid but I've had excellent results with
whitening toothpaste. It'll take off most dirt, marker, and smoke stains
while leaving the textured plastic intact and minty fresh! Just don't
use it on paint (it'll come right off).

Liam Busey