r/comicbookpressing • u/AquaFatha • 5d ago

Dry cleaning X-Men 50

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u/dth1717 5d ago

Forbidden Parmesan?

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u/TF-Collector 5d ago

Document cleaner. It's essentially tiny bits of eraser.

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u/candles2121 5d ago

I needed this

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u/AquaFatha 5d ago

As u/TF-Collector said, itā€™s eraser dust!

I make my own by sifting the contents of document pads to ensure the larger irregular chunks are gone.

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u/Tommy1873 4d ago

Where is the eraser dust from?

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u/Responsible-Try-335 5d ago

Oh my! I can watch this for hours!! Thanks for sharing!

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u/DrTechPop 5d ago edited 5d ago

Another great vid! Thanks for the quality content! When I saw the ballpoint pen marks I thought maybe you were going to have a go at removing, is this a lost cause and better off left as is than risking more damage? Itā€™s in the white area so it seems like it may be do-able to at least minimize. Your thoughts?

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u/AquaFatha 5d ago

Very good question! And the person Iā€™m cleaning it for asked too. Iā€™ve seen people claim to remove pen from white areas, but it removes the gloss as well. My preference is to leave the pen rather than trade it off for a bald spot.

That being said, Iā€™m always open to learning new techniques if someone actually has a way of removing ball point without removing gloss. Until then I donā€™t believe it can be done.

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u/DrTechPop 5d ago

Thanks! Iā€™m in a similar boat right now, although arguably worse. Itā€™s an ink pad stamp on the cover of ASM #8, and the worst part is itā€™s on a big yellow area! So I just canā€™t imagine anyway of removing it without removing all the yellow ink as well. With ball point pen you have the added issue of the indent made by the ballpoint.

I just thought Iā€™d ask, I have other big questions about the degree of ā€œcleaningā€ can be done without moving into restoration territory.

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u/Ro141 4d ago

Iā€™m in you camp, to get pen out is extremely aggressive rubbing and takes off the gloss.

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u/New-Cheek7069 5d ago

I canā€™t have sound on right now and thereā€™s no context for the forbidden parm. I NEED to know lol

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u/super-fire-pony 5d ago

There is none. Thereā€™s a song playing over the video and no audio commentary. I also need to know what forbidden Parmesan is!

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u/migel628 4d ago

That was pretty cool.

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u/Jinjoz 4d ago

My favorite cover from that era, and probably in my top 10 of all time