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I don't recall if I ever mentioned this before, if I have, just chalk it up to galloping senility.
Over the years I have tried a number of waxes for tubes etc and found that I could find nothing that works better than the originally recommended Johnson's paste wax...
There is one exception to that. On aluminum table surfaces some time ago I found something slicker (and you especially want the extension tables to be slick). Walk into the house and tell your wife that her favorite rose bush looks to be in distress... When she runs screaming from the house to check on it you run to where she keeps cleaning supplies and snitch her can of Lemon Pledge. Be careful when you spray it around as it can make a smooth floor almost dangerously slick. :eek: Our oldest daughter once sprayed a dust mop with it and the front hall was like an ice rink.:D
I still use Johnson's paste wax on about everything else.
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robinson46176 wrote:I don't recall if I ever mentioned this before, if I have, just chalk it up to galloping senility.
Over the years I have tried a number of waxes for tubes etc and found that I could find nothing that works better than the originally recommended Johnson's paste wax...
There is one exception to that. On aluminum table surfaces some time ago I found something slicker (and you especially want the extension tables to be slick). Walk into the house and tell your wife that her favorite rose bush looks to be in distress... When she runs screaming from the house to check on it you run to where she keeps cleaning supplies and snitch her can of Lemon Pledge. Be careful when you spray it around as it can make a smooth floor almost dangerously slick. :eek: Our oldest daughter once sprayed a dust mop with it and the front hall was like an ice rink.:D
I still use Johnson's paste wax on about everything else.
Interesting...I believe that lemon juice is knot that good for aluminum. The combination of lemon juice and aluminum creates hydrogen gas, an indicator that the metal is being dissolved. See here.
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I doubt that pledge actually has lemon juice in it. Lemon scent - yes.
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I didn't say to put lemon juice on them, I said Lemon Pledge.I have done this for years and none of the surfaces have crumbled into a pile of dust... I wouldn't recommend anything that I have not had personal experience over time doing.
Pledge smells way too much like lemon to have any real lemon in it... :)
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a note of interest
I was able to pull up a MSDS for Pledge on the S. C. Johnson products page.
http://www.scjohnson.com/msds_us_ca/PDF ... Polish.PDF
This shows no Citric acid or any other acids in lemon pledge. The lubricant seams to be called dimethicone and is one of several types of silicone oil.

They do have light alkyate listed in the ingredients so that wood seem to make the compound slightly base in nature, not acidic.
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mikelst wrote:a note of interest
I was able to pull up a MSDS for Pledge on the S. C. Johnson products page.
http://www.scjohnson.com/msds_us_ca/PDF ... Polish.PDF
This shows no Citric acid or any other acids in lemon pledge. The lubricant seams to be called dimethicone and is one of several types of silicone oil.

They do have light alkyate listed in the ingredients so that wood seem to make the compound slightly base in nature, not acidic.

SILICONE:eek: Don't get me started on what SILICONE :eek: can do when you try to finish wood that has be contaminated with SILICONE:eek:
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Ed in Tampa wrote:SILICONE:eek: Don't get me started on what SILICONE :eek: can do when you try to finish wood that has be contaminated with SILICONE:eek:

Then you add FEE just like the body shops do :)
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I read somewhere, can't remember where,(darned oldtimers disease!) that one of the leading brands of spray furniture polish/wax contained NO silicone. Can't remember which brand either!:eek: :eek:
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Does it have to be paste wax? I use liquid wax for the rails and table?
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Gene Howe wrote:I read somewhere, can't remember where,(darned oldtimers disease!) that one of the leading brands of spray furniture polish/wax contained NO silicone. Can't remember which brand either!:eek: :eek:


Maybe you read it here.

http://en.allexperts.com/q/Collectibles ... LY-OLD.htm
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