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Impossible Restoration Techniques
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Curt A
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Impossible Restoration Techniques
"The phonograph is not of any commercial value."
Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
My Wife
Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
My Wife
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JerryVan
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Re: Impossible Restoration Techniques
You just wanted us to see he uses WD-40, didn't you? 
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Curt A
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Re: Impossible Restoration Techniques
"The phonograph is not of any commercial value."
Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
My Wife
Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
My Wife
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VanEpsFan1914
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Re: Impossible Restoration Techniques
WD 40. Don't tell anyone but I attempt to keep a bicycle from the sixties alive with it. I also use it to ungum old oil before replacing it with the only slightly less controversial 3-in-One Electric Motor Oil which is SAE 20 weight. I use that even on my treadle sewing machine, and plenty of it, and it still hasn't spontaneously combusted or anything else that would force me to join a sewing machine group and apologize to a bunch of old ladies with electric Berninas.
My favorite forbidden restoration technique is scraping old finishes with glass or razors instead of using sandpaper.
My favorite forbidden restoration technique is scraping old finishes with glass or razors instead of using sandpaper.