i have switched to deionized water, don’t know if it’s going to make a difference but i figure why not go one step further and remove all minerals cause you never know how they might react with other chemicals over time. Great video, thanks for sharing.
Always love your tips and trechniques videos boss. You have helped me progress ALOT on my Clean and Press journey. Thanks for all you do to help this community.
Nice work. That's a great book! BTW, someone pointed out to me on my channel that the cover is actually not boba fett but a Mandalorian named Fenn Shysa.. who knew?
Impressive results, thanks for sharing your process! When you were treating the exterior cover in your light box, did you use anything under the book to support the spine? Or sheets of paper under the front and back covers to shield the interior pages from the peroxide spray?
Thanks! I will usually support the spine simply with books underneath. As for it I use any kind of buffers; when I mist I do not but when there is an overlay I usually do. It’s not entirely necessary but helps protect you if you oversaturated the overlay
Been watching your videos a lot. I really like the tutorials on cleaning. I am about to try it for myself. I don’t have a heat press but am going to try using an iron. Do you think it will work okay?
Technically yes but it is tricky. The heat and pressure is not evenly distributed which can cause problems. Best advice is start low on temp and practice on cheaper books.
Hi. Great content. I am curious how well the peroxide wet stacks work on golden, early silver age books with the matte type paper? Community, feel free to chime in. Thanks!!
Thanks! The overlay works fine but the older the book the more risk you run as the covers tend to be more brittle so adding moisture and heat can cause breaks
what surfactant are you using? Could you use the typical dilluted calcium hydroxide with a makeup pad to lift dirt and oily fingerprint stains off the white area?
I use a concentrate called Immacuclean from immaculate comics. Probably easier than researching best nonionic surfactants but you can try some others and may get better results.
Hmm, that’s interesting as hydrogen peroxide shouldn’t show up on black light. Possibly transferring a contaminant from something. Shoot me a dm on your exact process may be able to troubleshoot it.
Sorry, if this was mentioned in a earlier video...when you place the HP sheet on the book, and then you press the book, do you cold press the book? or heat press the book? and for how long?
Anything you do to the book could cause long term damage to a book. Hydrogen peroxide at this dilution by itself is going to do little to nothing to the book. As with anything else there are risks which is why I would not recommend jumping right in to pressing and cleaning bigger books especially older ones.
I recently came into a really nice silver age DC key (Strange Adventures 205) and it’s really high grade for how old it is but there is a date written (8/31) in pencil. Is there anything I can do to get rid of this? If I can get rid of that writing I’m sure the book would be like 8.5-9.0 range!
They don't usually subtract for dates written on old books. If it's pencil it can be removed but could remove the color underneath it as well so have to be careful
Generally with an artist eraser. Sometimes if it is really grimy then I will use a mild surfactant. The hydrogen peroxide is really only for stain discoloration; it’s not for removing dirt.
@@hobbyhero6973 Thanks! Do you have an Amazon link for the surfactant you use? I got the earasers and heavy paper suggested to try your methods out, but have never used a surfactant.
@@SuperMoleRetro I don’t. It’s sold by RU-vidr Immaculate Comics. It’s a concentrate that you dilute. Definitely practice a lot before going to a bigger book. Moisture and friction are the two biggest causes of damage and the process combines both.
@@hobbyhero6973 I don't expect you to give any trade secrets away, but assuming the only way a cover can come off is if it ripped at the staples, how would you repair that? Any videos showing that procedure? Do you risk getting purpled with that procedure?
