Re: [VAL] Cleaning the interior

[Daisy Welch <jtdjtd@xxxxxxxx>]

Um er, that should be 1/4 cup to 1 gal for light cleaning 
and 1/2 cup per gal for heavy.

Lemon oil. Hmmm. It has been my experience that furniture 
oil leaves a film of oil that fills up tiny cracks and 
scratches so the furniture looks better. But. Wood is dead, 
it does not need to be fed. What the surface needs is to be 
smoothed out somehow or refinished. And the film of oil left 
behind by that type of polish eventually attracts all sorts 
of gunk and dust. This of course makes you reach for the 
bottle again, to the delight of the manufacturer.

As a sometime antique dealer, oil is a good quick fix, but 
in a trailer where cooking and breathing are in a confined 
space, you need a surface that will not grab dirt, but shed 
it. Wax is better but you may need to resurface the wood 
before it will give you a good shine. Tung oil, and danish 
oil and a rubbed gunstock finish are finishes that actually 
get hard enough to be a good surface, although very elbow 
grease intensive.

Daisy