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Location: PDX | Well, i read the advise here for using Naptha, WD40, and Mineral Oil, so i headed out for supplies.
Question, what the hell is Naptha and where do you find it? I found a bar of soap called Fels-Naptha, but it says it "contains no naphthalene". Is this the stuff you folks are using? Or is it something else i need a hazardous material handling licence for?
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Location: Keller, TX | Don't know where PDX is, but in the states you can get it at any Home Depot or Lowes. Look for the paint section, find the paint thinner, it should be sitting right next to it. |
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Location: closely held secret | Pay attention, Big Money. PDX is Portland, Oregon. The home town of my youth. |
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Location: closely held secret | Any unpleasantness which needs doing. |
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Location: Berkeley, CA | I grew up in Portland, too. Great place. |
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Location: SoCal | Well, i read the advise here for using Naptha, WD40, and Mineral Oil, so i headed out for supplies. Are you sure that wasn't NAPA - a good bottle of wine always helps. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | naphtha is a distallate somewhere between gasoline and benzene. Some people use it as lighter fluid or as fuel. Naphtha's good because it doesn't smell as bad as mineral spirits and evaporates fast.
You can buy wd-40 at Costco. You can get 5 huge cans at costco for the price of 1 little one at your local hardware store. You can give away the extra cans as presents. Your dad will love you.
Naphtha is cheap at either the local hardware store or home depot. It'll be near the mineral spirits. Don't buy the soap. It come in quart cans.
Mineral oil you get at the drug store, like walgreens. Don't confuse it with baby oil, you want mineral oil. It's a cheap. The kind you use for a chopping block or take as a laxitive. |
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Location: Omaha, NE | Naptha is easy to find...its the fluid used in Zippo lighters. Even in today's smoke-free world, you should be able to find it at any drugstore.
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Location: Keller, TX | Originally posted by Waskel:
Pay attention, Big Money. PDX is Portland, Oregon. The home town of my youth. Don't let the name fool you. I'm so broke, I can't even pay attention.
Sorry, never worked in the airline industry. Not a traveler. Never learned the airport codes.
Not sure I want to picture Waskel as a youth. :D |
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Location: Warren,Pa. | Maybe I'm just not well informed, but it doesn't sound to me like I'd want to put naptha on the fingerbd of my guitars. I can understand mineral oil, lemon oil...but someone explain to me how naptha could benefit bare wood. John <>{ |
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Location: North Idaho | Isn't it just to remove finger oil? |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I believe the sequence is 1) remove finger grime with naptha, 2) clean fret wire with wd40, 3) treat fingerboard with mineral oil. Dave
PS If you wash your hands before playing and play a fretless bass, you can skip steps 1 and 2. |
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Location: PDX | Originally posted by Tupperware:
If you wash your hands before playing and play a fretless bass, you can skip steps 1 and 2. Ok, now, just a minute -- i religously wash my hands before i pick up any of my guitars. Wipe them down with a French linen cloth between each song, and kiss the headstock in praise of the gift it has bestowed at the end of each set. But hey, i'm Mediterainian by genetics and i weep oil from my skin, and i also drool beer every once in a while. I think a good cleaning is in order every few years under that punishment, no? ;)
I just want to do it right.
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by Jacob:
I grew up in Portland, too. Great place. Don't get me wrong - I grew up in Portland because I was born there and didn't have a choice. It's run by a bunch of liberal idiots who could buy a 5 cent candy with a ten dollar bill and still wind up owing money.
I work there because that's where my job is, but I live 40 miles away... |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I use it in this order:
1)WD-40 to clean fretwire
2)naphtha to clean off the frets and to remove the wd-40
3)mineral oil. |
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Location: East Wenatchee, WA | Don't get me wrong - I grew up in Portland because I was born there and didn't have a choice. It's run by a bunch of liberal idiots who could buy a 5 cent candy with a ten dollar bill and still wind up owing money.
I work there because that's where my job is, but I live 40 miles away... Gee Waskel....didn't know you felt that way about Portland....well....SO DO I!!!.
I only have to go there every couple of months to work (I have offices in Lake Oswego, Tigard and Vancouver and a new one opening down town) and that is too much. I was invited to move there. Sure, trade my 2 stop lights to work, and $130K
new house in Hermiston for a $300K old house and an hour commute. Makes perfect sense to me...NOT. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Waskel....when he was a little Waskel....
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Location: closely held secret | Brad! Where did you find that picture from my 'island theme' birthday party? Notice I had pretty 'short' guest list.
Actually almost made me laugh and wake the rest of the house up. When I was 6 or 7, my sisters thought it was hilarious to slick my hair down (except for the cowlick), and make me look like Alfalfa. |
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| "Actually almost made me laugh and wake the rest of the house up. When I was 6 or 7, my sisters thought it was hilarious to slick my hair down (except for the cowlick), and make me look like Alfalfa."
This explains sooooooooooooooo much. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by Waskel:
When I was 6 or 7, my sisters thought it was hilarious to slick my hair down (except for the cowlick), and make me look like Alfalfa. he's kept the look however... |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | ... The saiilor suit too |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I can. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Hey...I sure as heck know what it's like. You think your having a nice exchange of life experiences with friends and the next thing you know...your in a french maids uniform! |
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Cleaning the fretboard, an iquiry
