Another use for Johnsons Klear

nev · August 27, 2006, 10:58:34 AM

Crazy as it may sound, earlier today my wife asked to borrow my bottle of Johnsons Klear to - get this - polish the floor!

To be fair, it didn't do a bad job either. Will the uses for this wonder product ever cease?

The Rat · August 27, 2006, 11:43:44 AM

Hmmm... Do you think it will it work on mine after I rake it and put down some fresh straw?

Captain Canada · August 27, 2006, 11:45:20 AM

Well, at least she didn't ask you to polish it !

NARSES2 · August 28, 2006, 02:00:46 AM

QuoteCrazy as it may sound, earlier today my wife asked to borrow my bottle of Johnsons Klear to - get this - polish the floor!

To be fair, it didn't do a bad job either. Will the uses for this wonder product ever cease?

Note crafty female use of the word "borrow" in reality it's "used" as you have now lost that amount of Klear

Me a mysoginist - never

retro_seventies · August 28, 2006, 03:21:25 PM

i wonder if it tastes good with gin?

nev · August 29, 2006, 02:55:02 AM

Probably

Thing is Chris, I've had that bottle for about 8 years, and its now half empty - thanks to her! Now I have to stick my paintbrush miles inside the bottle and the handle gets all sticky

lancer · August 29, 2006, 07:46:38 AM

QuoteCrazy as it may sound, earlier today my wife asked to borrow my bottle of Johnsons Klear to - get this - polish the floor!

To be fair, it didn't do a bad job either. Will the uses for this wonder product ever cease?

Good grief!!! I am totally shocked that something so valuable to modellers has been used for something so domestic.....

Radish · August 29, 2006, 08:55:33 AM

Nev....decant it dear boy into a screw top jar.
Honestly, the youth of today!

nev · August 29, 2006, 09:25:03 AM

Thats far too simple and obvious a solution, and furthermore, it denies me my righteous indignation!

SebastianP · August 29, 2006, 11:13:03 AM

I had a devil of a time getting my hands on a bottle of this stuff, and very nearly gave up before I finally found it on the shelves of a paint store of all places. I'd been asking around in all the supermarkets and minimarts across town, and none of them carried the stuff for some reason.

Then a couple of days ago, I was downstairs at the convenience store looking for plastic cups to mix paint in, and found it sitting there innocently. Wow. Guess I won't need to take the bus to get my next bottle, when the one I've got runs out (that'll be some time in the late 23rd century, at the rate I'm using it...)

I found a couple of non-model, non-floor uses for it as well. I fixed a pair of scratched-up sunglasses with it good as new last year; and I found out that it works great to waterproof paper cups with. Whenever I'm at Burger king, I swipe a small stack of their paper ketchup cups, then line them up and pour some Klear into them. Every so often, I swirl them around or brush up from the bottom to the edge, and voila - paint-proof paper mixing cups.

SP

AeroplaneDriver · August 29, 2006, 07:32:31 PM

What a bizarre concept...

She's not one of those wierdos who would use Halford's Primer on a car is she?

Still, you learn something surprising almost every day. Apparently there are also a number of other uses for plastic.

lancer · August 30, 2006, 02:38:27 AM

QuoteShe's not one of those wierdos who would use Halford's Primer on a car is she?

I know some of those people. I feel very sorry for them...