Cleaning cardboard backgrounds.

[Larry]

Hey does anyone have a great way of cleaning the cardboard backings in arcade games?  Example: a forest background in a jungle gun game.  They would have trees and grass pictured on a cardboard backing.

I'm thinking of a mild warm Simple Green solution.  How about something with a quick evaporation rate like rubbing alcohol.  Any ideas?  Any success stories?

Thanks,

Larry.

[Eric]

Bestine... I think that is the way it's spelt a solvent a friend uses to clean some of his signs.... like an alcohol evaporates fast good for getting light dust/dirt off
 use in a small place first....

[aspbear]

I have used white bread. Just press the bread and it will turn into a dough like substance non abrasive and cleans colored cardboard very well.  I have used it on some of the old self framing signs,  just remember not wheat bread or any of the fancy breads just plain old white bread...

[rayg]

I agree with aspbear, the bread trick worked on the cardboard background of my Space Invaders Deluxe

[collecture]

I have used white bread. Just press the bread and it will turn into a dough like substance non abrasive and cleans colored cardboard very well.  I have used it on some of the old self framing signs,  just remember not wheat bread or any of the fancy breads just plain old white bread...

Interesting.....Is it Wonderbread? J/K
Neat idea that I will have to remember. Thanks for posting!

[Larry]

Sounds like a winner to me.  I'll try it this weekend.  So that's where the Mr. Clean white erasers came from. 

[tkaz]

This might be one of the weirdest cleaning tricks I have heard of...but now I have to try it!

[jholmgren]

Using bread or bread dough is an old wallpaper cleaning trick that's been around forever.

 

Jim  <--- used to work at a wallpaper store

[aspbear]

I agree with Jim it is an old time method,  I remember my mother using it to clean spots off of wallpaper.  She did that right after spanking me for getting the spots on the wall paper in the first place.

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