[Jukebox-list] Original Keys

[Jackie]

Bob,
oops, do you think the toothpaste is the wrong solution?
Jackie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob E." <bobe at halted.com>
To: "Jukebox mailing list" <jukebox-list at lists.netlojix.com>
Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 7:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Jukebox-list] Original Keys


> At 02:47 PM 9/4/06 -0500, you wrote:
>>Hello Everyone,
>>
>>I was wondering if anyone had any good tips for cleaning and restoring
>>original letter/number keys back to their clean and white state.  The
>>original ones I have are dulled and yellowed, and the repros that I
>>purchased just don't fit or feel as nice.  I would like to clean up and 
>>use
>>the real thing if possible.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> A fellow wrote into Always Jukin' a while back about his procedure for
> cleaning and polishing wallbox buttons, I will have to look and see if
> I can find it.  It may not work for the DS keys, since they have a "bend"
> in the middle, but for the flat fronts of the wallbox keys (double-shot
> molding with white plastic surrounding a translucent letter or number)
> you basically put 600 (maybe even finer, like 800 or so) wet-or-dry sand
> paper down on a very flat surface and carefully wet-sand them -- hold the
> keys in your fingers and rub the face carefully on that (without rocking
> them side to side).  You don't want to round off the keys, you want the
> fronts to remain flat.  After getting down to new, white material, he used
> rubbing compound and plastic polish (like Novus) to gradually bring up
> a smooth shine.  He said you had to push down really hard, and it was
> fatiguing to the fingers!  I think he said that the result was very nice,
> and that there were no magic cleaners or bleaches that would give the
> same result.  Still, you may want to look around for a spare set of DS
> keys on eBay (they're the unusual blue ones!) just in case you find a
> wrong solution!
>
> --Bob
>
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