I hope youn are wearing gloves when using toluene...............It can be absorbed through the skin and can do serious nerve damage. It has been outlawed here in Canada in food packagng uses.
Yes to the gloves part , sorry to leave that out figured everyone would know about that. Toluene poisoning is a nasty one for sure. What did they use it for in food packaging?
We used to use it to help adhere a polyehelene coating to the printed material on a cheese package.......none of it touched the food......that was 20 years ago, they have changed it now.
For really tough stains like ballpoint pen ink and oil use Zippo lighter fluid. For a overall good cleaning use softscrub cleanser. If you can't get the vinyl clean with these 2 products it will not come clean. After you get it clean make sure you put on some armorall to protect it.
Stupid question but does it matter what color the vinyl is or it makes no difference. Mine's green with 50+ years of wear.
I note that this is an ancient thread, but I thought I'd add my 2 cents. I have a junkyard white interior in my '56, and have been using Fantastic to clean it -- not very effectively. I recently tried the Magic Erasers, and they do a vastly better job -- especially the heavy duty ones.
I'll add to the necroposting here and add my hat to the Simple Green ring. I used it for my whitewalls...and my white vinyl interior. Loved the smell, too!
Simple Green straight out of the bottle. Sometimes a finger nail brush is needed to dig into the grain. You need to remember to do a clean water rinse afterward, as Simple Green leaves a sticky film. (The sticky film won't hurt anything but it will attract dirt.)
------------------------------------------------------- absolutly.....best thing in the world for white walls. Mr. Clean--Magic erasers
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