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Stephen Altbacker wrote:
> I do not clean printed bricks, or bricks with labels, or other "delicate
> pieces by soaking overnight. I recommend cleaning these pieces "gently" by
> hand.
Believe me, printed bricks (other than some early ones) can absolutely
safely be soaked. I have never had a printed brick be damaged, even when
soaking for several weeks (yea, sometimes I get a bucket of LEGO soaking
and then run out of time to deal with it). Stickered pieces are best
washed by hand and immediately blotted, however, if the sticker is in
relatively good condition, I have found they soak just fine (every once
in a while as I'm sorting the newly cleaned LEGO onto a bath towel for
drying a stickered piece turns up, no worse for having had a loooong
bath. TLC uses nice high quality stickers, for current ones, the
material itself is plastic, and the glue is pretty resilient, but peels
off clean, and can usually be peeled up once or twice and be re-applied
and hold just fine.
Frank
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In lugnet.general, Frank Filz writes:
> Stephen Altbacker wrote:
> > I do not clean printed bricks, or bricks with labels, or other "delicate
> > pieces by soaking overnight. I recommend cleaning these pieces "gently" by
> > hand.
>
> Believe me, printed bricks (other than some early ones) can absolutely
> safely be soaked. • <snip>
> Frank
The only thing I've found really detrimental to printed pieces is silly
putty, which I briefly considered as a cleaning agent. Yes, it gets dust
and grime off and is really cool for recreating scenes from the blob with
your legos but it did pull all the gold off of classic space minifigure torsos.
Detergent, while not as fun, is perfectly safe.
Allen D. Carley
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