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Re: Car cleaning idea

To: npenney@mde.state.md.us, spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Car cleaning idea
From: "Lyta Byron" <lytabyron@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 18:50:20 PDT



Nolan,
What a wonderful idea!
I have always found Murphy's Oil Soap a wonderful cleaner for wood products 
but would never had thought to use it on a car's exterior.You should think 
about writing a Dear Heloise column on using mundane things in interesting 
ways. Congrats!
Kristi

My Spifire is a bit faded.  The paint is far from optimal.  While trying to 
clean/restore/improve
the paint I kept getting it worse and worse.  Old dry paint sucks up 
everything.  Giving it that
oh so pretty streaky gunky look.  The more things I pulled out of my car 
care arsonal, the
worse it was looking.

Then I had an idea (hey, it happens sometimes).  Murphy's Oil Soap.  The 
stuff works great on
wood floors.  It claims to have oils and such in it...  Put two and two 
together, get fifteen, and
go was the car.  Hey! This got all the stuff out of the paint!  The areas I 
did wash are looking
good.  The soaked in waxes and such are all gone.  The oils in the soap 
really do seem to have
soaked into the paint, and done a nice job of revitalizing them.  It's been 
a couple of days now,
and I don't see any problems so far.  As I've pondered on this, it seems 
like a pretty reasonable
result, and probably a good notion to use Murphys Oil Soap to was faded old 
cars with.


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