Glad you liked it!

Glad it was helpful!

its tough on the nerves, certainly.

It hurts me to watch it too, but I think it’s important to show!

@@ImmaculateComics I would say showing failures is even more important than successes! As It will help make everyone conscious of the dangers and not just seek easy rewards!

It Came From The Nerd Cave . That fire sounds heartbreaking. It’s my biggest fear! I hope you didn’t have too many keys in there. Your instincts are correct about the cleaners and I particular the Ammonia. High pH solutions are terror in the cellulose fibers. I always use nonionic surfactants so the are not polar and don’t dissolve much or any ink. It limits their cleaning power but it’s much safer. Water is polar enough anyway. I make up my own solutions and I can sell you some for $10 if you like. It would only be about 50ml of solution but it will mix to make about a liter of cleaner.

@@ImmaculateComics That would be great! Are you on Instagram? If so, do you want to DM me (I'm under the same name--just posted an Iron Man sculpture this AM so you know it's me) your paypal and I can send you the $. As far as the fire...I can't really describe the feeling of losing my collection. It was 10,000 or so books that I'd been collecting since 1978 and I was INTO the hobby. I had a few Silver and Bronze keys but I took a huge hit for my early 90's keys. I would get 10-20 copies of big books during that time frame with an eye towards 30 years ahead. People said I was crazy. There were ALOT of 9.8s in there that would be nice to help with kids' college but what can you do? I really lost my passion for comics because thinking of them was a reminder of what I lost. IG and YT has really gotten me back into it this year and it feels like a missing piece of me is back.

@@itcamefromthenerdcave1669 Man my gut hurts just thinking about lost all those books. I recently bought an AF15 and Fedex lost it. Only covered the first $1000 because it was perishable collectible. I learned my lesson that the declared value does NOT mean its covered by insurance even if you buy it! I sent you a DM in instagram!

that makes sense. they don't reveal any tide lines from the cleaning process with these particular chemicals

The "adiabatic load duration" (as I like to call it) depends on the age of the book and the amount of wet vs dry cleaning you've done to it (longer for older/wetter books). But for a general rule I let the temperature return to ambient in the press itself, then I will remove the book and place it under a sheet of about 1/16" aluminum with a 2lb weight on top of it for 8 hours. This liberates the heat press for other work. I'll show that process in a future video if you like. I get my sheets of metal at onlinemetals.com and I have them custom cut to the size of my heat press.

@@ImmaculateComics Oh good idea about using weights outside of the press after heat. You're addressing my main issue which is my heat-press is occupied while paper is relaxing. Although I really wonder if that's needed at all... i'm dealing with mostly Bronze age books 70, 80s some 90s. I just started pressing and at first I was leaving the books in there for 12 hours after heat shutoff. Now i'm down to 4 hours and I'm not noticing much difference in paper flatness

Deep Cuts For me about 1/3 of my books will require a lengthy adiabatic load after pressing, depending on where you live, the climate , and the condition of the book. You may not know if you actually needed a post pressing load for a couple of days to a couple of weeks later. The paper will get kind of wavy again after a few days especially in high humidity

Well thanks for helping me to do that I was going to re-edit or remove any old videos that no longer make any sense!

actually I do pretty much the same thing now too. Only instead of the baking paper use a special silicone laminated paper. I only use it because of durability. If the baking paper gets a wrinkle or a tear in it, its done-for and I press hundreds of comic books so they have to last for me!

David Barnhill he is very happy to know that you noticed that!

I'll consider it. Thats certainly a good idea but its a lot of time and effort to watch the all to see if they are current. But I'll definitely think about it.

@@ImmaculateComics thanks !

Hi Camin, Thanks for writing from Chile! I have no idea if that will work properly or not. However, I am hoping you will try it out and let us know!

I really don't know, but I suspect not. In my experience only additive techniques count as restoration, not subtractive!

My LCS guy claims that it would but then I have to ask, how would a grader know?

Sodium lauryl sulfonate for making soap about the same?

@@jasonchaney1133 Sodium Lauryl Sulfate would lower the surface tension a lot and may help but what you really need is a nonionic surfactant, a detergent, and an emulsifying agent. I typically either make them myself from palm oil or coconut oil or I buy them from Dow, Stepan, or PCC-Chemax. The problem is that you have to buy them in large quantities that would cost around $5,000. In this video I used a combination of Bioterge PAS-8s (0.25%) from Stepan and LFE-35B (1%) from PCC-Chemax in DI Water. You wouldn't want to use laundry detergent because they use cationic surfactants so that they don't foam up, which is what you want in a washing machine but would also most likely remove some of your ink and also damage your paper. Most laundry detergent add components to make your whites look whiter because they fluoresce and that would either dissolve or alter the color of your inks so it would be ill-advised to use a laundry detergent. If you want to use any household-type cleaning agents at all, I would use a car wash from chemical guys, maguires, or adam but in about a 10% solution with water. maybe add a few drops of isopropanol to lower the surface tension. -Rick

Hi lino! Go to immaculatecomics.Com

Hi Stephen. I sell the solution and give detailed instructions for its use at immaculatecomics.com

Actually it’s exactly the right amount of time!

My failure rate was initially around 40%, it dropped to 8% after about two years of practice. now it's around 3-5%. I am wet cleaning a high-grade Hulk 181 today. Wet cleaning is not impossible but it's also not for the faint of heart. I have several dozen followers who are submitting photos of great success after some initial failures. It's fraught with hazards but also quite possible for the skilled person.