[Jewelry making - Article 00226] - [Orchid] Buff Rake

[Tom U.]

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Hi all!!

    I was going through the archives and found this thread.  I first
    read Neils Lovchal's post: 

    http://www.ganoksin.com/orchid/archive/200501/msg00011.htm 

>           May I offer another solution which has worked very fine for
>           me. Every now and then when my wife Betty is not around i
>           would sneak a bunch of buffs into her washing machine and
>           simply wash them at 95 degrees C with normal washing powder.
>           When washed I take them out of the machine, let them drip
>           over the sink for a quarter of an hour or so and then simply
>           spin them on the buffing machine, holding a plastic bucket
>           around it. It is not as messy as using a rake and it also
>           helps you rescue those polishing buffs that some student have
>           contaminated with coarser buffing media. It does not do any
>           harm to the washing machine, but I know Betty would hate to
>           see it :->

Niels Lovsch

    Then I read about not washing buffs in the washing machine because of
     losing metal down the drain. My wife remembered we had one of these:

    http://laundry-alternative.com/ 

    You could wash the buffs in one these washers, pour out the water
    into a  bucket and allow the water to evaporate (or strain it
    through a filter).  Thus, having the best of both worlds, clean
    buffs and not losing any metal. 

Just a thought,
~Tom~

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