cleaning your rods

[Batty]

Ok ladies and Gents
how do you do yours?
just got an order of glass, normally they come with elastic bands but this time they have tape. Do I just wash and scrub them?
or use some chemical?

Cheers Batty

ps, still haven't got my new Minor up and running, waiting on DH to get his tools out! oh dear, did I really say that? I need a big whole in the wall and these days I'm not quite as strong as I used to be. so big power tools are crossed right off my "aloud", list.

[Margram]

I use window glass cleaner wipes, some people wash them or even put them in the dishwasher! Good luck with getting your big hole in the wall done

[Fruddy]

I chuck all mine in a sinkful of hot, soapy water, wash each one individually and then rinse and dry.

[tinker]

Ditto Fruddy's method 

[awrylemming]

Yep.  Fruddys.  Although sometimes with the sticky stuff, a little glass cleaner doesn't go amiss.   

[♥♥Tan♥♥]

Unpack them, stick them on the shelf then lick them and wipe them in my armpit just before I melt.

There is a bottle of glass spray by the glass rods but I may well scare it to death if I actually used to to clean glass.

[ScarletLeonard]

I'm the same as Tan, I don't lick it though I have a pot of water to dunk them in. 3 wipes under the arm and (one to clean, one to dry and one for luck.)

no point cleaning them all at once, it's like ironing, soon as they have been in storage for a day they are dirty again.

[Donna@Rockin' Beads]

Blimey! All I do is give them a quick wipe on my apron!!!

[Helen G]

I use a lens cloth just before I use each new rod 

[Lyn G]

I always wash clear in hot soapy water, but everything else just gets a wipe on my leather apron before use.   

[Madam Steph]

Mine are washed in soapy water and dried soon as they arrive, then I'm onto the PC here to make and print out labels and everyone is labelled individually.
I force myself to do that before I allow myself to use any new stuff, otherwise I will be working in the usually mess that I do everything else in 

Lindax

(I keep the glass spray to buff up the beads before despatch)

[Princess Peggy (Priscilla McGirr)]

It's the underarm method for me too I'm afraid...everything gets dusty anyway, so just a quick swipe before I use it has to do!

[awrylemming]

Can I just say I'm not coming round your houses for a cup of tea    Gawd only knows where the teaspoon has been! 

[Pegasus]

A quick wipe with an oven glove!

[ScarletLeonard]

don't worry Sue teaspoons don't go in the armpit...they get wiped on trousers.