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nika
Jan 8, 2004, 2:36 AM
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I'm sure this has been asked before, but I don't remember the answer. Can anybody give me any beta on what to use to clean holds? I'm organizing the Williams College comp and as I understand it, in the past the holds have just been washed in a diluted bleach solution. Does bleach actually degrease the holds, or just kill bacteria on them? Is there some other chemical we could use that would work better than bleach? We're washing them by hand in large coolers filled with our cleaning solution.
Thanks for the help!
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crushingfinger
Jan 8, 2004, 3:14 AM
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Just a brush on out door rock. For plastic Ive had good results with rubbing alcahol. but if price is no problem nothing works better than Formula 420 :troll: :troll:
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rrrADAM
Jan 8, 2004, 3:22 AM
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Gym holds should be washed in acid, they are at my gym.
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trguy
Jan 8, 2004, 3:30 AM
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We've experimented at our gym over the years. Haven't tried acid yet as rrrAdam mentioned but I've heard it works well. Had great luck simply running ours through the dish washer. The granular soap seems to work better than the liquid stuff. If there's alot of chalk built up we'll scrub the spot with a wire brush before washing. We even installed a dish washer at our gym and now wash all the holds any time a route comes down.
May be a better method but it sure does a good job and requires little effort.
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trguy
Jan 8, 2004, 3:31 AM
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We've experimented at our gym over the years. Haven't tried acid yet as rrrAdam mentioned but I've heard it works well. Had great luck simply running ours through the dish washer. The granular soap seems to work better than the liquid stuff. If there's alot of chalk built up we'll scrub the spot with a wire brush before washing. We even installed a dish washer at our gym and now wash all the holds any time a route comes down.
May be a better method but it sure does a good job and requires little effort.
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thegogirl
Jan 9, 2004, 4:07 AM
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Acid washes are good such as CLR but will kill your skin as well unless you wear glvoes. . Go with:
White vinegar ,any brand will do. Pour it in a bucket. Throw the holds in. Let soak. Scrub with a large brush, rinse with water-can hose them down or air dry and Vwalla! instant clean...
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badass
Jan 9, 2004, 4:25 AM
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You can use ten thousand types of cleaning materials but you will never get the holds even close to new because holds are made out of one kind of plastering cement or another which means they lose permanent texture sort of like real rock. my best advise is don't abuse quality holds or expensive slopers by placing them too low on the wall. if you place them higher they are less likely to be used as footholds and they will retain there rough grip much longer.
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hoofers_andy
Jan 9, 2004, 11:57 PM
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i dont think an acidic cleaner would do nearly as much as one that is more basic. as far as i know CLR is a relatively strong base as far as household products are concerened. bases will break down the fats, oils, and dead skin; and in theory, getting rid of that 'greasy' feeling.
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edge
Jan 10, 2004, 12:13 AM
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You should check the message board at www.newenglandbouldering.com. Pay especially close attention to the posts from that guy "edge". Not only is he incredibly smart, but damn near world famous in his home town. :D
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nika
Jan 12, 2004, 8:49 PM
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thanks for the advice guys. we're probably gonna end up going with dishwashing soap, since the outing club advisor isn't too crazy about having to deal with the acid. loran, you know that no matter how often i check the message boards, i'll never be able to check them half as often as you...i seriously don't know how you're always on every single one!
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grayhghost
Jan 12, 2004, 9:58 PM
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holds made out of plaster?
Just use diluted acid (almost every kind works)
experiment with the dilution to get the desired results,
then rinse in water and air-dry, works quite well
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scottcody
Jan 12, 2004, 10:29 PM
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We used soke them in TSP for aleast a couple of days, and them have some volunteers pony up and brush the hell out of them. If they did a good job we would throw down some day passes.
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littleschmee
Jan 12, 2004, 10:32 PM
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We just took ours to a carwash, they came out great.
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crotch
Jan 12, 2004, 10:37 PM
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Soak in HCl. Wash in water. Neutralize in H3CO3. No problems, clean holds, minimum effort, no scrubbing necessary.
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olderic
Jan 13, 2004, 5:49 PM
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In reply to: You should check the message board at www.newenglandbouldering.com. Pay especially close attention to the posts from that guy "edge". Not only is he incredibly smart, but damn near world famous in his home town. :D
Nika - I think Loran was tying to say "world famous in his own (old?) mind". But who knows - since he has become the poster boy on Steve's web site maybe he is world famous. I told Zeb that I was going to drag out an EB'ed, swarmi belted, painter pants version of me from 1975. Zeb was not impressed....
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roc_klimber
Jan 20, 2004, 3:33 AM
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Washing machine all the way
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