Tip for cleaning headlining - and cheap!

Gunfleet

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I discovered this by accident. If you have grubby looking vynil headlining you know that if you scrub it the dirt goes into the leather-type embossing on the vynil, so you end up unable ever to get it properly clean. However, an ordinary artists' rubber will get the grey out of the leather-type embossing, leaving your headlining like new. This is especially uselful if you have a paraffin stove along the lines of a Taylors and sometimes switch it on before it's sufficiently heated (who, me?). Even more useful (but costing three quid) is a bookbinder's cleaner, a sort of muslin pad filled with soft rubber-type granules. That lets you clean large areas at a time. Hewits of Edinburgh among others supply them.
 
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