[5335] in APO Printshop
Re: Print Run Successful
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Riggle)
Mon Jan 14 22:10:59 2008
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:10:50 -0500
From: "Kevin Riggle" <kevinr@MIT.EDU>
To: "Alan Meisler" <ameisler@admreo.com>
Cc: apo-printshop@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <CF58601A918BC54181C0E0FB78067A0901ADD072@mail.adminternal.com>
On Jan 14, 2008 9:37 AM, Alan Meisler <ameisler@admreo.com> wrote:
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> >> 3) Kate and I were both convinced that the first step in cleaning the
> >> roller/platten was to apply "Easy Street". We also remember
> something
> >> called "goop" which may or may not have been the same thing. The
> >> phrase "roller conditioner" also came to mind. But in searching
> >> around,
> >> we found none of this stuff, and ended up cleaning everything with
> >> blanket wash. Are those other substances no longer used, or did we
> >> just not find anything?
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> >Indeed, the general procedure these days just uses whatever's in the
> >push-push, which I believe is currently Varn Pronto blanket wash. I
> >feel like I've heard the name "Easy Street" before, but am not certain
> >what it is. I do know that we've tried multiple solvents at times; not
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> >sure what "goop" was. I'm also not sure about roller conditioner or
> >how often it used to get used, and imagine that Len will comment, but
> >something possibly relevant is that in the past decade we've had most
> >of the rollers recast from true rubber to a composition compound;
> >perhaps that deprecated the need for roller conditioner.
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> "Goop", to the best of my recollection, is a heavy-duty hand cleaner.
> (It can also be applied to stains in clothes as a pre-wash. Good to have
> around for when you get ink on your clothes. Not guaranteed to work, but
> applying some as soon as the stain is noticed gives you a chance of
> getting it out.)
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Is "Goop" perchance GoJo-brand hand cleaner? (Off-white, slightly
viscous consistency.) IIRC it behaves as you describe.
- Kevin
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Kevin Riggle (kevinr@mit.edu)
