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Jimbob Global Moderator Admin Team Offline Third nipple removal completed succesfuly Posts: 20462 Chester / Flintshire Gender: Drives: 52 3.2 MV6 Estate & 98 3.0 MV6 Manual Estate	Cleaning Coal 02. Apr 2011 at 16:02 Having a bit of a tidy, and want to clean some coal as daft as that sounds.. We have one of these electric fire, with a pile of real coal for decoration in front of it, which is dusty as hell. Anyone ever cleaned it up before? Is water gonna leave it looking grey Any hints and tips? Anyone?
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Jimbob Global Moderator Admin Team Offline Third nipple removal completed succesfuly Posts: 20462 Chester / Flintshire Gender: Drives: 52 3.2 MV6 Estate & 98 3.0 MV6 Manual Estate	Re: Cleaning Coal Reply #1 - 02. Apr 2011 at 16:07 Ideas so far... Water Hoover Airline old rag
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hotel21 Administrator Offline Posts: 12766 Doghouse Gender: Drives: into lamposts	Re: Cleaning Coal Reply #2 - 02. Apr 2011 at 16:34 Airline, worked with a dry brush to get into the nooks and crannies, then olive oil wiped sparingly to bring up a shine.
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Debs. Omega Lord Offline A denizen of The Wirral peninsula Posts: 7386 Gender: Drives: 2.5 V6 CDX Estate (1999)	Re: Cleaning Coal Reply #3 - 02. Apr 2011 at 16:45 I`ve got one here at the new "Deb`s Towers".......It has real-anthracite as the coal "effect": I tipped the coals into a washing up bowl with a hot solution of 'Stardrops', then rinsed and dried them off on a clean tea-towel....afterwards, they shone like new (well, as well as any 50,000 year old item could!)
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Jimbob Global Moderator Admin Team Offline Third nipple removal completed succesfuly Posts: 20462 Chester / Flintshire Gender: Drives: 52 3.2 MV6 Estate & 98 3.0 MV6 Manual Estate	Re: Cleaning Coal Reply #4 - 02. Apr 2011 at 16:58 Cheers all, Airlines done the trick nicely
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Varche Omega Baron Offline Posts: 3860 Andalucia, Spain Gender: Drives: 97 pre mini facelift 3 litre auto RHD Elite saloon and a 2000 Ford Ka !	Re: Cleaning Coal Reply #5 - 02. Apr 2011 at 17:01 My brother would know, he used to be in the army.
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Jimbob Global Moderator Admin Team Offline Third nipple removal completed succesfuly Posts: 20462 Chester / Flintshire Gender: Drives: 52 3.2 MV6 Estate & 98 3.0 MV6 Manual Estate	Re: Cleaning Coal Reply #6 - 02. Apr 2011 at 17:07 Varche wrote on 02. Apr 2011 at 17:01: My brother would know, he used to be in the army. wouldnt that be a tiny paint brush and white paint
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Re: Cleaning Coal
Reply #7 - 02. Apr 2011 at 21:44

Jimbob wrote on 02. Apr 2011 at 16:02:

Having a bit of a tidy, and want to clean some coal Grin

as daft as that sounds..

We have one of these electric fire, with a pile of real coal for decoration in front of it, which is dusty as hell.

Anyone ever cleaned it up before?

Is water gonna leave it looking grey Undecided

Any hints and tips? Anyone?

Thumbs Up!

Are you one sad bugger or what? not only do you have the bad taste to have an electric fire with a pile of coal in front of it for 'decoration' you havent got the wit to rinse the dust off it under the tap like any 5 year old would do faced with the same situation. If that were not bad enough, you also feel the need to broadcast your ineptitude and seek advice on how to remove the dust of coal from a bunch of car enthuisasts Roll Eyes

Please tell me this is some sort of April fool joke, or if it isnt please delete my account or ban me or whatever Thumbs Up!

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Re: Cleaning Coal
Reply #8 - 02. Apr 2011 at 21:59

Bent valve wrote on 02. Apr 2011 at 21:44:

Jimbob wrote on 02. Apr 2011 at 16:02:

Having a bit of a tidy, and want to clean some coal Grin

as daft as that sounds..

We have one of these electric fire, with a pile of real coal for decoration in front of it, which is dusty as hell.

Anyone ever cleaned it up before?

Is water gonna leave it looking grey Undecided

Any hints and tips? Anyone?

Thumbs Up!

Are you one sad bugger or what? not only do you have the bad taste to have an electric fire with a pile of coal in front of it for 'decoration' you havent got the wit to rinse the dust off it under the tap like any 5 year old would do faced with the same situation. If that were not bad enough, you also feel the need to broadcast your ineptitude and seek advice on how to remove the dust of coal from a bunch of car enthuisasts Roll Eyes

Please tell me this is some sort of April fool joke, or if it isnt please delete my account or ban me or whatever Thumbs Up!

And breathe .... wrong time of the month ??? or just had a bad day ??

or just inherently rude and obnoxious ?? (as thats how that rant comes across)

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Re: Cleaning Coal
Reply #9 - 02. Apr 2011 at 22:01

Bent valve wrote on 02. Apr 2011 at 21:44:

Jimbob wrote on 02. Apr 2011 at 16:02:

Having a bit of a tidy, and want to clean some coal Grin

as daft as that sounds..

We have one of these electric fire, with a pile of real coal for decoration in front of it, which is dusty as hell.

Anyone ever cleaned it up before?

Is water gonna leave it looking grey Undecided

Any hints and tips? Anyone?

Thumbs Up!

Are you one sad bugger or what? not only do you have the bad taste to have an electric fire with a pile of coal in front of it for 'decoration' you havent got the wit to rinse the dust off it under the tap like any 5 year old would do faced with the same situation. If that were not bad enough, you also feel the need to broadcast your ineptitude and seek advice on how to remove the dust of coal from a bunch of car enthuisasts Roll Eyes

Please tell me this is some sort of April fool joke, or if it isnt please delete my account or ban me or whatever Thumbs Up!

And the same to you with knobs on!
Hope someone helps you someday! Thumbs Up!

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Jimbob

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Re: Cleaning Coal
Reply #10 - 02. Apr 2011 at 22:01

Bent valve wrote on 02. Apr 2011 at 21:44:

Jimbob wrote on 02. Apr 2011 at 16:02:

Having a bit of a tidy, and want to clean some coal Grin

as daft as that sounds..

We have one of these electric fire, with a pile of real coal for decoration in front of it, which is dusty as hell.

Anyone ever cleaned it up before?

Is water gonna leave it looking grey Undecided

Any hints and tips? Anyone?

Thumbs Up!

Are you one sad bugger or what? not only do you have the bad taste to have an electric fire with a pile of coal in front of it for 'decoration' you havent got the wit to rinse the dust off it under the tap like any 5 year old would do faced with the same situation. If that were not bad enough, you also feel the need to broadcast your ineptitude and seek advice on how to remove the dust of coal from a bunch of car enthuisasts Roll Eyes

Please tell me this is some sort of April fool joke, or if it isnt please delete my account or ban me or whatever Thumbs Up!

Take this as your one and only public warning, future abusive rants like that WILL get you a ban.

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Re: Cleaning Coal
Reply #11 - 02. Apr 2011 at 22:06

Bent valve wrote on 02. Apr 2011 at 21:44:

Jimbob wrote on 02. Apr 2011 at 16:02:

Having a bit of a tidy, and want to clean some coal Grin

as daft as that sounds..

We have one of these electric fire, with a pile of real coal for decoration in front of it, which is dusty as hell.

Anyone ever cleaned it up before?

Is water gonna leave it looking grey Undecided

Any hints and tips? Anyone?

Thumbs Up!

Are you one sad bugger or what? not only do you have the bad taste to have an electric fire with a pile of coal in front of it for 'decoration' you havent got the wit to rinse the dust off it under the tap like any 5 year old would do faced with the same situation. If that were not bad enough, you also feel the need to broadcast your ineptitude and seek advice on how to remove the dust of coal from a bunch of car enthuisasts Roll Eyes

Please tell me this is some sort of April fool joke, or if it isnt please delete my account or ban me or whatever Thumbs Up!

Jesus h corbett, pig ignorant or what. Apart from anything else, Jimbob happens to be someone who works tirelessly in the background making a big contribution to this forum. If he,s posh enough to want clean coal - Roll Eyes

- dont get on your high horse about it, just read something that you find more interesting - or leave. Roll Eyes

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Mart280 Junior Member Offline Posts: 55 East Sussex Gender: Drives: 2.6 v6 CD Auto	Re: Cleaning Coal Reply #12 - 02. Apr 2011 at 23:35 How about baby oil I read about it on here being used to shine up all of the black plastic bits under the bonnet so I tried it and it works
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Bent valve

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Re: Cleaning Coal
Reply #13 - 03. Apr 2011 at 07:44

Jimbob wrote on 02. Apr 2011 at 22:01:

Bent valve wrote on 02. Apr 2011 at 21:44:

Jimbob wrote on 02. Apr 2011 at 16:02:

Having a bit of a tidy, and want to clean some coal Grin

as daft as that sounds..

We have one of these electric fire, with a pile of real coal for decoration in front of it, which is dusty as hell.

Anyone ever cleaned it up before?

Is water gonna leave it looking grey Undecided

Any hints and tips? Anyone?

Thumbs Up!

Are you one sad bugger or what? not only do you have the bad taste to have an electric fire with a pile of coal in front of it for 'decoration' you havent got the wit to rinse the dust off it under the tap like any 5 year old would do faced with the same situation. If that were not bad enough, you also feel the need to broadcast your ineptitude and seek advice on how to remove the dust of coal from a bunch of car enthuisasts Roll Eyes

Please tell me this is some sort of April fool joke, or if it isnt please delete my account or ban me or whatever Thumbs Up!

Take this as your one and only public warning, future abusive rants like that WILL get you a ban.

Sorry mate Embarrassed

in the cold, sober light of day it does seem a bit over the top{understatement}I'm sure your fire looks very nice really. I do apologise Embarrassed

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Desperate Den Omega King Offline Posts: 11881	Re: Cleaning Coal Reply #14 - 03. Apr 2011 at 08:43 Bent valve wrote on 03. Apr 2011 at 07:44: Sorry mate in the cold, sober light of day it does seem a bit over the top{understatement}I'm sure your fire looks very nice really. I do apologise Well said Valve.
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