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I want to clean/refurbish my Sillicon Mallet playing surface. It is
made of the rubber material as the vintage pads, and with time has
become dull and grey.
I was thinking of something like Baby oil or Paste wax.......does
anyone have any suggestions as to what I can use to shine the surface
up with-out making it too brittle or damaging it.

I think paint would seal the surface, making it brittle and cause it to crack.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Derrick

hi
cleaning with water and some kind of soap will keep the dirt away.
In car shops they have rubberpolish/protector, that will do

Berk
PS is your Mallet working allready??




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>To: Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com
>From: derrick simpson <atmospherics4@...>
>Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 08:44:05 -0600
>Subject: [Simmons Drums] Rubber pad finnish
>Reply-To: Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com
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>I want to clean/refurbish my Sillicon Mallet playing surface. It is
>made of the rubber material as the vintage pads, and with time has
>become dull and grey.
>I was thinking of something like Baby oil or Paste wax.......does
>anyone have any suggestions as to what I can use to shine the surface
>up with-out making it too brittle or damaging it.
>
>I think paint would seal the surface, making it brittle and cause it to
crack.

>
>Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
>Derrick

Thanks to kind members of this group, I got schems emailed to me which
I forwarded to my keyboard tech...he is working on it as we write

I expect to have it back on tuesday.......a case is being made fir it
now and I leave next Friday with it.

Derrick

On 4/4/09, Berk Aarts <B.E.R.K@...> wrote:
> hi
> cleaning with water and some kind of soap will keep the dirt away.
> In car shops they have rubberpolish/protector, that will do
>
> Berk
> PS is your Mallet working allready??
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>>To: Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com
>>From: derrick simpson <atmospherics4@...>
>>Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 08:44:05 -0600
>>Subject: [Simmons Drums] Rubber pad finnish
>>Reply-To: Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com
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>>I want to clean/refurbish my Sillicon Mallet playing surface. It is
>>made of the rubber material as the vintage pads, and with time has
>>become dull and grey.
>>I was thinking of something like Baby oil or Paste wax.......does
>>anyone have any suggestions as to what I can use to shine the surface
>>up with-out making it too brittle or damaging it.
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>>I think paint would seal the surface, making it brittle and cause it to
> crack.
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>>Any ideas would be appreciated.
>>
>>Derrick
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Berk Aarts skrev:
> hi
> cleaning with water and some kind of soap will keep the dirt away.
> In car shops they have rubberpolish/protector, that will do

"Armor All" is great on most surfaces. intended for car panels but great 
on old synths. :)

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Jesper,
Thanks for the tip about Armorall......I hadnt thought of that product
for this application.

I was wooried about petroleum products that might erode the rubber
finnish material..

This product you mentioed should do well and we willl try it this
week...I"ll keep you posted


Derrick

On 4/5/09, jesper <jesper@...> wrote:
> Berk Aarts skrev:
>> hi
>> cleaning with water and some kind of soap will keep the dirt away.
>> In car shops they have rubberpolish/protector, that will do
>
> "Armor All" is great on most surfaces. intended for car panels but great
> on old synths. :)
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derrick simpson skrev:
> 
> 
> Jesper,
> Thanks for the tip about Armorall......I hadnt thought of that product
> for this application.
> 
> I was wooried about petroleum products that might erode the rubber
> finnish material..
> 
> This product you mentioed should do well and we willl try it this
> week...I"ll keep you posted

As with all such tips, please check on a small space first before going 
over the entire piece. But I've used it on rubber, wood, metal etc with 
success. It's just the rubberish end cheeks of the OSCar that doesn't 
seem to accept anything.

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electronically yours, jesper
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www.electronic-obsession.se
www.myspace.com/machinepop
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"Spotify is fully legal and so should our content be too."

Gotti!!

I remember the Oscar synth......i think we had a bad one cause would
not hold tuning....early 80,s i thnk it was.
Ill post re: the mallet's finnish soon as i can

Derrick

On 4/5/09, jesper <jesper@...> wrote:
> derrick simpson skrev:
>>
>>
>> Jesper,
>> Thanks for the tip about Armorall......I hadnt thought of that product
>> for this application.
>>
>> I was wooried about petroleum products that might erode the rubber
>> finnish material..
>>
>> This product you mentioed should do well and we willl try it this
>> week...I"ll keep you posted
>
> As with all such tips, please check on a small space first before going
> over the entire piece. But I've used it on rubber, wood, metal etc with
> success. It's just the rubberish end cheeks of the OSCar that doesn't
> seem to accept anything.
>
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> electronically yours, jesper
> - -- --- ---- ----- ---- --- -- -
> www.electronic-obsession.se
> www.myspace.com/machinepop
> - -- --- ---- ----- ---- --- -- -
>
> "Spotify is fully legal and so should our content be too."
>

derrick simpson skrev:
> Gotti!!
> 
> I remember the Oscar synth......i think we had a bad one cause would
> not hold tuning....early 80,s i thnk it was.

Not earlier than 1983 at least... and tuning. It has DCO's so I don't 
think it was tuning. There's a lot that can go wrong because of bad 
sockets though.

> Ill post re: the mallet's finnish soon as i can

Looking forward to that. AND... don't get the stuff on hard floors. 
They'll get slippery indeed. I remember touching up my PS-3200 before 
selling and damn was that floor slippery for weeks afterwards. :)

OT, I know... back to Simmons. Get that mallet working and good-looking! :D

-- 
electronically yours, jesper
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Quote"I want to clean/refurbish my Sillicon Mallet playing surface. It is
made of the rubber material as the vintage pads, and with time has
become dull and grey.
I was thinking of something like Baby oil or Paste wax.......does
anyone have any suggestions as to what I can use to shine the surface
up with-out making it too brittle or damaging it."

I have a multimallet that has the same rubber pads, first wash with soapy water then goto a supermarket and get a Kiwi shoe shine triangular polish widget they cost about £2.00 the shine lasts about a year

Pete

Pete,
Another great suggestion to try.
We're going to try all the methods suggested by memebers....thanks
Derrick

On 4/7/09, Pete Daniels <p_k_daniels@...> wrote:
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> Quote"I want to clean/refurbish my Sillicon Mallet playing surface. It is
> made of the rubber material as the vintage pads, and with time has
> become dull and grey.
> I was thinking of something like Baby oil or Paste wax.......does
> anyone have any suggestions as to what I can use to shine the surface
> up with-out making it too brittle or damaging it."
>
> I have a multimallet that has the same rubber pads, first wash with soapy
> water then goto a supermarket and get a Kiwi shoe shine triangular polish
> widget they cost about £2.00 the shine lasts about a year
>
> Pete
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