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Old 15th Aug 2019, 11:51 pm   #19
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Default Re: Degreaser for cigarette tar removal

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Originally Posted by paulsherwin View Post
I've always found aerosol foaming cleaner shifts cigarette tar pretty well if you leave it on for 5 minutes.
It must be 20+ years ago now when someone gave to me a rickety pair of possibly Edwardian-era dining table chairs that needed some serious restoration. The first thing to do was to get all the grime off the woodwork - underneath the grime, of course, was the traditional dark lacquer. So I though "Start with aerosol foaming cleaner to get the grime off and then see what I actually have". Much to my surprise, not only did all the muckite come off, but so did all the dark lacquer - I had pools of it, fortunately on the newspaper I had beneath the chairs' legs.There must have been a chemical reaction between the cleaner and the lacquer. After that, the refurb. was straightforward - and I still own those two chairs today.

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