Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 17:26:12 -0600
Reply-To: Marshall <mjruskin@SHAW.CA>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Marshall <mjruskin@SHAW.CA>
Subject: Re: New Vanagon Owner - 82 Diesel - Saying Hi, Questions
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Hi Volks:
I think what works just incredibly well for cleaning carpets and upholstery
is that category of products used to clean dog stains. You know, poop
stains. You get it at pet stores.
The cleaner is as fluid as water, and you really squirt it on. Then you take
a brush or spoon edge and work the carpet, and it generates an incredible
amount of foam that lifts up all the deeply embedded dirt, which you can
scoop off.
Get a diaper, lay it absorbant side down, and step on it, and it pulls the
cleaner away into the diaper - works way better than blotting. Rinse with
water and do the diaper trick again.
Try this technique - it's amazingly effective and easy.
Marshall Ruskin
84 Westy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Donald Baxter" <onanov@MINDSPRING.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 12:54 PM
Subject: Re: New Vanagon Owner - 82 Diesel - Saying Hi, Questions
> Congrats.
>
> When I got my '85 GL it was pretty filthy. The best stuff to clean
> upholstery and carpet that worked for me is a product that comes in a
> spray can called Tuff Stuff made by First Brands. I've bought it in
> auto parts stores, discounts stores both in Atlanta and where I live now
> in Iowa City, IA. Using this together with a steam cleaner that I
> borrowed (not filling the cleaner with detergent, just spraying the Tuff
> Stuff on, scrubbing, then using the steam cleaner to rinse) worked
> incredibly well. The water coming into the cleaner was filthy, and I
> just kept cleaning until it was somewhat less filthy. It never ran
> entirely clear, but clean enough.
> __________
>
> Donald Baxter 724 Westgate Street #1 Iowa City, IA 52246
> (319) 337-0494
> onanov@mindspring.com
> donald-baxter@uiowa.edu
>
> www.mindspring.com/~onanov
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
> Of Jon Sykes
> Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 12:44 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: New Vanagon Owner - 82 Diesel - Saying Hi, Questions
>
> Just saying hey!
>
> I just purchased a 1982 Diesel Vanagon camper:
> http://www.pbase.com/js3150/82_diesel_vanagon.
>
> This is my first Vanagon, first VW, first camper so I have lots of
> questions!
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