In a message dated 7/14/99 6:35:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
<< I have had no trouble staining my Formica (20ppm LVDC). I have no end of trouble getting the stains out. Might have something to do with type of Formica, its age, etc? Ivan >> I have watched this debate for some time now wondering is I should tell you all about my, ah, mistakes. I prefer to call them my moments of education. Anyhow, I too have stained Formica with cs made with LVDC. I'll tell you how to get rid of the stains too. But I can't tell you how to rid yourself of the stains and still have the same perfect Formica when you are through with the removal. The following is methods are, trust me, reproducible if you really want to test them for your self. Method 1: I work with herbs a lot and so I make a number of tinctures. That has nothing to do with the stains from cs but it is my only excuse. You see, one evening while my wife was off visiting a friend of hers I was making a gal. batch of cs. I use room temperature distilled water and, as you likely know, it requires about 3 hours to complete. Well, there I was, bored and alone, so I set up my 28 VDC cs maker and the water and turned it on. Now what to do? So I decided to shake the 4 batches of tinctures I was making. This too is not very exciting and so I decided to sample some of the main ingredient in making my tinctures, Vodka. Good stuff, so I shuck a bottle of tincture and sampled some vodka and I shuck the next and samples some more. Well, by the time I had shaken all the batches I was in pore form. But remember I had a batch of cs going. I make a habit of keeping my silver rods very clean during the whole process and so I removed them, with great care :-), and cleaned them and put them back in the water. I was bored, watching gunk form on silver rods isn't really very exciting so I samples some more vodka. After an hour of this cleaning and sampling I discovered how to stain Formica. I dropped the + rod on my wife's nice, white and clean Formica counter top. That was mistake number one. Mistake number two was not cleaning it up right away. Infact I allowed to stay there until my other, and better, half came home. Trust me, she was not impressed. She rubbed and scrubbed and could not get that black out. Not a happy camper at all. Method 2: Same batch, same night, but on our bathroom counter. You see I figured it was to my advantage to leave her to her cleaning task and move my filtering step to another location. I was not in good mental shape, but I was not stupid just unsteady. Anyhow, I took the batch to the bathroom to pored the cs through coffee filters to remove the sludge. I succeeded on getting most of it through the filter, but not all of it. When I was through I put my stuff away, apologized to my wife for staining her counter and went to bed. Another not so wise plan, I should have made sure the counter top was wiped dry but seeing I was doing good walking, I didn't. By the next morning there was a well defined stain on the counter top in the bathroom. And my normally jolly wife was less of a happy camper than she was the night before. My wife, with great loving care :-), woke me early in the morning and showed me the mess I had made. Didn't look that bad to me, but what does a man know. Not much according to her. Anyhow my brain had not forgiven me any more than my wife had and so in desperation I suggested rubbing compound (the stuff you use on a bad paint job) as the thing to use. She went to got some, I went back to bed. When I got up the stains were gone and my loving wife was well on the way to forgiving me. So, there you are. Two tested and proven ways to stain and one to remove. Try them if you must, but remember I have gone there before you and it isn't a pretty picture. The counters have never looked perfect sense. Then there was the time I set a very very hot glass pan on my wife's Formica counter top - but that is another story. Larry -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
