Post #632538 by tikijackalope on Mon, Apr 16, 2012 1:21 AM

So, how did your cleaning project work out?

After several years of being very busy in other areas, I'm unboxing a bunch of ex-restaurant OoH lamps I bought a few years back and installing them in my home this Spring. Many have tapa cloth that is discolored with cigarette smoke. Others bits of tapa on these have a light coating of formerly airborne restaurant smoke and grease that had trapped dust and lint. Fortunately, the latter is usually confined to the tapa on the top of the lamps so would not be visible once they are hung.

Unless I hear of a real success story from someone, I'm inclined to leave my lamps alone and accept the discoloration as part of their provenance.