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Cleaning Glass

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For years, my chosen method of cleaning glass was two cotton cloths, one for cleaning with a squirt of whatever glass cleaner, then a second squirt and polish with the other dry cloth.
All very well, except when the cloth gets too wet and all fouled up.
Now I've discovered that a scrunched-up roll of newspaper, with one squirt of cleaner will give instant and much better, really sparkling results.

Bit pathetic but thought I might pass it on.
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I use disposable kitchen towel roll and every so often, I chuck it into the bin and get another. I seems to work fine for me!
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Thanks for sharing that tip Vintage Frames - do you find that works as well on coated glass such as AR or UV?
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No, I don't have any coated glass at the moment. I would expect it to be OK but can appreciate how nervous anyone would be testing it on speciality glass.
Maybe someone else can give it a go on an off-cut.

What else is one to do with all the read copies of the Sun and Daily Sport?
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That is an old trick I learned many many years ago; however, I do not think that I have had a newspaper delivery to my home in almost 20 years.
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Newspaper? Where do you get that from?

I use Regina kitchen towel, one to put it on, and one to polish it off. Spread them out to dry, and re-use until they start to fall apart.

This works well on Artglass which is my go to
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Kitchen paper. :wink:
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I use Panther and Tiger anti-static cloths from Lions. I'm New School! :lol:
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I did for a while try some lint free cleaning cloths from Asda and they were quite good , but I sort of drifted back to using dispoable kitchen towel rolls. I don't really know why, I don't think it was a concisous decision, it just happened. For glass cleaner I have a big container of Nilglass and a refillable spray bottle, it's o.k., but it does not wet the surface of coated glasses very well and you have to rely of rubbing it around a bit more while cleanind the glass. I have not tried other types of glass cleaner, so I don't know how they compare. Nilglass seems to work, but it is perhaps not the most ideal.
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Doesn't nobody not read newspapers no more?
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vintage frames wrote: Tue 21 Jun, 2022 10:30 am Doesn't nobody not read newspapers no more?
What is this "newspapers" you speak of??
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Newspaper paper is much used in the sublimation printing world, should anyone want to try some you can buy reams of it unprinted cheap as from eBay, Amazon et al.
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You can also buy sheets of unprinted newsprint paper from packaging suppliers. It is commonly used when screwed up as loose fill packaging to fill spaces around items packaged in cardboard boxes. It is supposed to be cheaper than bubblewrap. It also requires very much less storage space than bubblewrap for businesses while storage space is really limited. Quite a lot of standard of the self cardboard boxes are not particularly durable and my packaging supplier buys in cardboard boxes for customers who normally use two boxes, one inside the other, with addition screwed up newsprint paper betwee the two boxes.

Lots of businesses down here in Devon are quite small family businesses and run their business from small premises and do their packaging like this. I'm told that this is a very economical way of doing things, it is also quite eco friendly as well.
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