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| Thread ID: 106345 | 2010-01-05 07:32:00 | Vacuum for cleaning books | Thomas01 (317) | PC World Chat |
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| 846033 | 2010-01-05 17:38:00 | I use a ShopVac that looks like R2D2 and it both inhales as well as it exhales. It looks kinda cute in a Star-Wars way. On wooden floors it is a must as the typical upright vacuum with it's brushes just tosses debris in front of it and out of the vacuum effective zone. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 846034 | 2010-01-05 19:29:00 | We have hundreds of books and the only way to clean books properly is by "blowing" not sucking with a vacuum. Really? I take them off the shelf, dust the shelf and dust the book. I have a frieend who has thousands, he dusts them too. However, if you like the vacuum idea, why not ust buy an old one on TM? Until fairly recently I owned an old electrolux, blew just fine. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 846035 | 2010-01-05 21:34:00 | Really? I take them off the shelf, dust the shelf and dust the book. I have a frieend who has thousands, he dusts them too. However, if you like the vacuum idea, why not ust buy an old one on TM? Until fairly recently I owned an old electrolux, blew just fine. Well for a start I'm too darn lazy to remove each and every book to dust it, which is not effective anyway. I did consider second hand, but the ones I looked at were far too expensive for their age and condition. And we did own an Electrolux, which because a wheel had broken I handed on to a family member - its still going great guns - I should have kept it! Tom |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 846036 | 2010-01-05 21:47:00 | My advice is to keep the dust on the books. It makes them look old and therefore worth more. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 846037 | 2010-01-05 22:47:00 | I've always disliked blowing for cleaning purposes, the dust just gets re-distributed. I use vacuum with a soft brush adapter for books, and for computer cleaning. Same with compressed air guns, widely used, ok maybe in some cases, but the dirt gets blown into nooks crannies and places where it shouldn't be. It is an absolute no-no for "cleaning" rolling element bearings. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
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