Tiki Mug Conservation - Collecting Tiki

S SilverLine Member Kansas City Joined: Mar 02, 2004 Posts: 637	S SilverLine Posted posted on Wed, Feb 16, 2005 3:13 PM By "conservation" I mean care, cleaning and maintenance. Here's the situation: I got lucky and found six Trader Vic's coconut mugs at a local thrift store for $.53 each. (Of course, I bought 'em all.) Well they were all priced with some kind of unholy grease pencil right on the brown paint/glaze and I tried just about everything I had to remove the marks without also removing the color. Plain 'ol dish soap didn't get it. Ammonia didn't get it. Pine cleaner didn't get it. I was about to give up when I decided to try Gunk carburetor cleaner. Extreme, yes, but I knew it would remove the grease. Turns out it worked great and didn't harm the paint/glaze. I'd be interested to hear what else works to clean yet conserve/preserve mugs that have been otherwise neglected and/or abused.

By "conservation" I mean care, cleaning and maintenance. Here's the situation: I got lucky and found six Trader Vic's coconut mugs at a local thrift store for $.53 each. (Of course, I bought 'em all.) Well they were all priced with some kind of unholy grease pencil right on the brown paint/glaze and I tried just about everything I had to remove the marks without also removing the color. Plain 'ol dish soap didn't get it. Ammonia didn't get it. Pine cleaner didn't get it. I was about to give up when I decided to try Gunk carburetor cleaner. Extreme, yes, but I knew it would remove the grease. Turns out it worked great and didn't harm the paint/glaze.

I'd be interested to hear what else works to clean yet conserve/preserve mugs that have been otherwise neglected and/or abused.

Post #141620 by SilverLine on Wed, Feb 16, 2005 3:13 PM