Re: Cleaning up nasty Apples

[Dave McIntyre <davemci@ameritech.net>]

 Any suggestions for getting rid of the yellowing?  I've been tempted
to try my sandblaster. Don't laugh, it could work..


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.
> 
> 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 :-)