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I use Dunlop 01 fingerbord and fret cleaner and also Dunlop 02  fingerboard conditioner.I use the 65 guitar cleaner and 65 bodygloss and also65 string cleaner and conditioner.You can buy all of these in a set too. I think they are the best. and they will not harm your inlays.  BTW welcome to the forum Woody.

Thanks!

Yes, $20 is a good deal. Especially when you consider the price of a set of strings anymore. If you can decrease the frequency of string changing intervals by keeping them clean, that'll save alot of dough over the course of the year…

This thread encouraged me to pick up an extra kit this evening on the way back home.. Here's the kit posing in front of my original '83 Quiet Riot LP:

WoodyH38 said:

YEAHHHHHH! Well im an axe grinder, piledriver, mother says that i never never mind her, got no brains, im insane, teacher says that im one big pain,
Im like a laser 6-streamin razor, i got a mouth like an alligator, i want it louder more power, im gonna rock ya till it strikes the hour! Bang your Head! Metal Health'll drive you mad!! LOL. Awesome original poster!!

LOL! I wore that album out! I was considering recently to see Quiet Riot play a gig over in Jersey, but I ended up passing on it figuring it wouldn't be the same watching the band without Kevin on vocals. I dunno, maybe next time through I'll catch them.

Back in the 70's when I listened to '45s on my "Panasonic Stereo", I used coins to hold down the needle from skipping. Thankfully working summers and after school allowed me to save up enough cash to buy a decent Realistic (radio shack) stereo system when 1981 rolled around. That was an great system. But MP3 files have me spoiled and I have only a little desire to go back in time on stereo systems….

I still have that stereo and original speakers stored in a box in my shed. No rhyme or reason for some of things I kept and others I tossed.

Here's a walk back in time.

I spent alot of cash on many goodies from the 1980 Radio Shack Catalog. It's amazing tht some of the tuners alone were the price of mortgage or rent payments back then!

The system I had is the one they considered the middle level "better" system on page 14.  And I really got tossed back in time when I spotted the 40W Metered power booster on page 68 that went into my very first car, a Ford Pinto! LOL! The car was a garbage but the stereo in it was awesome! 

WoodyH38 said:

Lol i remember putting a tape deck in my 1980 buick skylark first year of the uncool body style and every time i hit the gas or let off the speakers would whine. The more gas you gave it the higher the pitch lol. That radio shack catalog makes me say, oh yeah, i remember that :)

I had a 97 C280, had the same exact thing.  When I hit the gas – I would hear a whining sound come from the speaker (almost as if the electronics were picking up the acceleration).  Brought it to the dealer several times – they 'couldn't hear it'.  I always wondered what that was?  Any thoughts?

WoodyH38 said:

Lol i remember putting a tape deck in my 1980 buick skylark first year of the uncool body style and every time i hit the gas or let off the speakers would whine. The more gas you gave it the higher the pitch lol. That radio shack catalog makes me say, oh yeah, i remember that :)

I had a 97 C280, had the same exact thing.  When I hit the gas – I would hear a whining sound come from the speaker (almost as if the electronics were picking up the acceleration).  Brought it to the dealer several times – they 'couldn't hear it'.  I always wondered what that was?  Any thoughts?

Maybe "ESP" is right Im still not sure why it did that, it got on my nerves but i was so glad to have a tape player I didnt care UNTIL it ate one of my tapes. Thats not something most kids of this era know much about, 8 Track and casette players eating tapes lol.

The Tone King said:

I still have some of my prized cassette tapes in my garage.  WASP, Dokken, etc. to name a few.  Always loved the cassettes that came w/ multi-pages of inserts, lyrics, and such.  Always felt ripped off when it was nothing more than the image on the front and blank on the back.  I'm still convinced that I'll listen to those tapes again.  :-)

Do you remember the store called "The Wiz"? I used to buy ALOT of my cassettes from there. And yes, it was a rip off when you didn't get either a lyric fold-out or photo sheet in a holder. But what really sucked was having a tape eaten up in the car's tape player! Back in those days it was common to see lengths of tape on the roadway like confetti ribbon, presumably by people who in a fit of rage tossed their eaten cassettes out the window!