Tending bar to help put myself through grad school I dreamed of the day I would be wealthy enough to market jars of pimento stuffed olives soaked in Boodles gin to the rich and famous.
'Teeni Tots - bet you can't drink just one.
Now, years later, I can only dream of marketing jars of foamed melamine cubes soaked in grain alcohol to wealthy boomer vinylphiles. StyloPhilo - now with Scrubbing Stubbles. Get in on the ground floor for distribution - meet your quota and earn points towards a Proscenium Gold in dashing uber-pink. Dirty needles - who needs 'em?
No one hit wonder, we'll follow that up with ITG (In-The-Groove), the ultimate marriage of nano-technology and bioscience, delivering tiny enzymatic engines that literally eat the dirt right out of the grooves then, like a truck load of guys tossing gravel on potholes, miniaturized self-burnishing Spackle-Bots back-fill nasty microscopic cracks with a proprietary polycarbon blend made under ISO2000 conditions from fine shelf-ripened VG quality shaded dog retreads. A light vacumning and you're done. Don't wait, Get In-The-Groove Today.
heh.
From publicly available BASF documentation:
======== snip ===========================
To understand the astonishing capabilities of the Magic Eraser, we have to take a closer look at the special properties of Basotect®. On curing, melamine resin becomes almost as hard as glass, explains Dr. Christof Möck, responsible at BASF for the global business management of this special foam. The hardness of this material is one of the secrets of its cleaning talent: like extremely fine sandpaper, the foam eraser rubs the particles of dirt from the surface. Basotect® still manages to remain soft and supple thanks to the fine structure of the foam created by foaming the resin. Unlike rigid polystyrene-based foams such as Styropor, open-cell foams have interconnected air chambers. In the case of Basotect®, only the cell strands formed when several cavities impinge on each other remain. What looks under the electron microscope like foam on bath water is actually a finely structured three-dimensional network consisting of extremely slender and therefore flexible plastic filaments. The large, almost freely accessible surface produced by this airy structure binds the abraded particles of dirt and contributes to the eraser's astounding grime-removing capabilities.
Basotect® is used for soundproofing and insulating in music studios and cinemas but also in the construction and automotive industries. The foam has recently also been used in the manufacture of ultra flame retardant airplane seating because of its low weight, reports the specialist Möck. The magical cleaning effect was only discovered through the persistence of developers aided by a little luck.
======== snip ===========================
Me? I found the Extreme Phono goop works fine, but can leave tiny gooplets of itself on the stylus. Magic Eraser takes too many dips to do the trick and only works part of the time. ZeroDust is not perfect, but its what I use, along with StyLast, after every side. Not for hollow cantilevered cartridges, StyLast claims its good for one side only and while I have no science on its efficacy, it has not had a problem in my system for over twenty years and my carts tend to last a long time.
'Teeni Tots - bet you can't drink just one.
Now, years later, I can only dream of marketing jars of foamed melamine cubes soaked in grain alcohol to wealthy boomer vinylphiles. StyloPhilo - now with Scrubbing Stubbles. Get in on the ground floor for distribution - meet your quota and earn points towards a Proscenium Gold in dashing uber-pink. Dirty needles - who needs 'em?
No one hit wonder, we'll follow that up with ITG (In-The-Groove), the ultimate marriage of nano-technology and bioscience, delivering tiny enzymatic engines that literally eat the dirt right out of the grooves then, like a truck load of guys tossing gravel on potholes, miniaturized self-burnishing Spackle-Bots back-fill nasty microscopic cracks with a proprietary polycarbon blend made under ISO2000 conditions from fine shelf-ripened VG quality shaded dog retreads. A light vacumning and you're done. Don't wait, Get In-The-Groove Today.
heh.
From publicly available BASF documentation:
======== snip ===========================
To understand the astonishing capabilities of the Magic Eraser, we have to take a closer look at the special properties of Basotect®. On curing, melamine resin becomes almost as hard as glass, explains Dr. Christof Möck, responsible at BASF for the global business management of this special foam. The hardness of this material is one of the secrets of its cleaning talent: like extremely fine sandpaper, the foam eraser rubs the particles of dirt from the surface. Basotect® still manages to remain soft and supple thanks to the fine structure of the foam created by foaming the resin. Unlike rigid polystyrene-based foams such as Styropor, open-cell foams have interconnected air chambers. In the case of Basotect®, only the cell strands formed when several cavities impinge on each other remain. What looks under the electron microscope like foam on bath water is actually a finely structured three-dimensional network consisting of extremely slender and therefore flexible plastic filaments. The large, almost freely accessible surface produced by this airy structure binds the abraded particles of dirt and contributes to the eraser's astounding grime-removing capabilities.
Basotect® is used for soundproofing and insulating in music studios and cinemas but also in the construction and automotive industries. The foam has recently also been used in the manufacture of ultra flame retardant airplane seating because of its low weight, reports the specialist Möck. The magical cleaning effect was only discovered through the persistence of developers aided by a little luck.
======== snip ===========================
Me? I found the Extreme Phono goop works fine, but can leave tiny gooplets of itself on the stylus. Magic Eraser takes too many dips to do the trick and only works part of the time. ZeroDust is not perfect, but its what I use, along with StyLast, after every side. Not for hollow cantilevered cartridges, StyLast claims its good for one side only and while I have no science on its efficacy, it has not had a problem in my system for over twenty years and my carts tend to last a long time.