Hey Jelly Fingers! I haven't done any MS on the material but mostly because I don't suspect I would see anything. that's because I would just be looking for a loss of hydrogens if it were just the electron impact MS. If I were spraying it with MeOH or something then *maybe*..... but remember paper is a polymer so that would just be a huge mess in the quadripole. NMR might reveal a little but its FTIR that reveals the most. The yellowing is mostly conjugation, so it's making C=C double bonds that give the color and a complementary loss in ductility of the paper itself.

You’re welcome, brother!

More to come! I appreciate your kind words Patrica, and I have dozens of ideas. My home ozone chamber and home comic book washing machines are near the top of the list but its very difficult to store and ship them and I am not sure of the market size so I don't want to buy and build 1000 of them to only get stuck with 950 lol!!!! -Rick.

Awesome! You’ve taken the first step into a larger world!

Well I made that from a sheet of lucite and a heat gun. I basically just got the lucite hot and wrapped it around a piece of metal pipe. I people are interested I could probably make them to sell? If I get another laser cutter they will be a lot easier to fabricate!

Well I have reverse osmosis canisters so thats what I use. Although I suspect strongly that it has a minimal benefit over regular distilled water.

Distilled is probably fine. Deionized is just easier for me to get. everyone does do not as good of a job as he does with it. There are definitely different levels of expertise, as you’ve noticed! I have a few people that are nearly as good as I am or possible even better than me. But it takes time and patience.

@@ImmaculateComics Rick, how do you dry the comic after the deionized water bath? Especially each of the pages?

@@richwujek3250 I put a series of wooden chopsticks between each page and allow it to air dry

It’s a lot worse when you didn’t know how it’s going to end up!

Hi CaZeek, I am actually developing a special fixture for this very process right now! Stay tuned!

I will make a video showing you how to do it!

@@ImmaculateComics Awesome, cant wait to see!

Yes and yes. I often will put some long q tips or chopsticks between the cover and the splash page to help it dry faster!

No the burner finger was from a different book, it just still hurt! I repeaters that about 8 times to get the desired effect. I remove paint marker for silver age books often but the results are unpredictable. Thanks for the kind words!

oh yeah. It was absolutely very wavy and wrinkled. Your insight serves you well!

You can, but I prefer DI water

Hey, welcome to the channel. I hope you like it. In the solution is DI water and a proprietary surfactant that I intend to start selling next week! immaculatecomics.com

@@ImmaculateComics awesome , will it be on website brother ?

@@bobarrow124 yeah I think as soon as this week!

Hi Raul, I dont clean and press book for money any longer. I do, however, accept books that I will do for free. I am very slow and I only accept interesting or challenging books. you can email me at rick@immaculatecomics.com

Probably......

@@ImmaculateComics I've tested and had some degree of success so I can confirm that it works for the type of stain I described as long as the spots are miniscule( barely visible to begin with). Btw love this channel.

You are too kind

lol, I'm glad you like the colorful euphemisms!

It depends on how.you do it. If you only remove material it's just cleaning (subtractive restoration). If you add anything, even fluorescent dyes to make paper look whiter, then its additive restoration (green label)

Well that’s a good question. The safe answer is that you have to disassemble the book and clean it one wrap at a time in a slant board. No fun!

@@ImmaculateComics Thank you

Hello Rick found an alternative then taking the comic apart. What I did is use the plastic on the comic book bags and protected it from getting deionized water. It worked and cleared the watermarks!

in this case, I thought it was DI water but it was actually DI water with 0.5% of my proprietary surfactant in it. But DI water would also work you just have to use a lot more of it.

This is "subtractive" restoration so it only removes material from the comic book and does not add anything therefore is does not get a purple label.

@@ImmaculateComics Thank you. Great videos!...:)

I have a nice Conan 23 myself. I love that book. I could probably clean it but the larger the stain the more of a risk that either the stain wont come out or of a risk that the book could be damaged in the process. I would need to see photos, of course.

@@ImmaculateComics be happy to send photos. The stain is oddly limited to only the cover and does not appear on interior pages. Send photos to what address?

Rick@immaculatecomics.com

Hi Christopher. Its not something I do just yet but you can most likely do color touch yourself. Try just plain old water to start

I need somebody, Help. Not just anybody Help, you know I need someone!

Thats Type II water in this application.

@@ImmaculateComics Where do you get this water?Walmart, Home Depot?

@@imadnakhleh Well if you want to know where I got it, I have a reverse osmosis system and I make it from city water. If you actually wanted to know where you can get it, you can buy at almost any grocery store in 1-gallon bottles, Walmart has it!

@@ImmaculateComics Is Alkaline vapour distilled ionized water good?

@@ImmaculateComics For tougher stains, do people send you their comics?And how much you charge?

thats my grandpas saying!