GUYS IN THE UK!

[baglessball]

What products do you use to make your cleaners shine?

I have stumbled upon a little black miele S5. It was covered in paint marks, so obviously scrubbing these of has

marked its plastic.

If anybody has any tips i would be extremely grateful!

The 'klear' stuff that you apply to floors hasn't done the trick. Neither has a various range of furniture polish!

 

[madabouthoovers]

I use white spirit to remove paint, and silicone spray (Back to Black car bumper shine or equivalent) to bring back the lustre to the plastics and mouldings.

This old 560 was tired and dull, but after the above treatment, really came up a treat. Cant beat the old silicone spray!


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[sebo_fan]

I use 151 "pound shop" favourite Elbow Grease spray. Its a non-toxic degreaser and I always use a microfibre cloth with that spray. Gets paint marks off and shifts surface dirt off the plastic quite easily. Followed up by using Carpride bumper and plastics wipes (again usually £1 from poundshops).

 

[uksausage]

wax

i tend to use sainsburys kitchen cleaner with bleach to remove most dirt this also gets rid of most of the paint, if used inside the vacuum it kills two birds with one stone as it cleans and kills of any nastys and gets rid of smells like dog
after all that i use turtle wax 3 in one car polish this removes the odd bits the bleach spray left behind and also enables you to buff to a good shine/.
if that fails to put a shine on i use WD40 sprayed on a microfibre cloth and wipe it over the vacuum this gives an amzing shine,almost reflective

 

[sebo_fan]

Totally off topic but.. WD40 surprise!

Last year I couldn't get my shed door open. The lock had completely worn out but I was determined to make it last a bit longer. At the time I had bought WD40 and knowing its a good lubricant gingerly sprayed a lot into the door lock and then went away and came back to find that the oil certainly worked and I could get into the shed. However, then is snowed and the temperature dropped and the shed lock wouldn't budge. I didn't know then that WD40 is a water based lubricant and thus the lock had frozen up! Even with hot water squirted through the lock made no difference.

In the end had to remove the lock from the door, take it apart, dry it out and spray it with 3 in 1 oil which is NOT water based. The lock now moves easily and even now in the snowy weather when required to take grit out of the shed or snow shovels, the lock opens and locks properly.

 

[uksausage]

sorry

im sorry ryan i had to giggle at that thats sort of thing i normally do but my excuse is im blonde
david

 

[beko1987]

I tend to strip vacs down to their component parts, wash and dry them. Then I take the plastic parts over to the garage and machine polish them with a finishing pad and low abrasive polish, normally Menzerna final finish. You do have to be careful about writing on the vac though.

Then once that's buffed off they get waxed. I find Dodo juice Banana Armour works well on them, better than it does on the car.

If I haven't been able to get all the damage out then I machine with Poor boys Black Hole, which is a filler-glaze, it hides all the swirl marks left. I then wax with G3 Paste Wax or Poor boys Nattys blue, as they sit better on the glaze.

Anything metal and uncoated gets 0000# wire wool and metal polish, finished with a light smear of oil to lubricate and protect.

Can you guess what my other hobby is?

 

[dysondestijl]

I use furniture polish, Brillo pads are excellent but don't give a lasting smooth finish, just use one to get the stubborn marks off, I also use t-cut motorcycle polish( not usually on plastic though)

 

[hoovermad]

WD40

Ive never thought of using WD40 for cleaning a Vacuum,But i swear by it at work,it's amazing at removing grease from the coaster trains,or turtle wax for the trains made of fibre glass,

But at home i use Cif wipes just to give the DC24 a once over then buff it with a dry cloth

Neil