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Unread 01/08/2019, 09:43 AM   #10128
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Originally Posted by fit View Post
I recommend you brush that slime thouraly with a toothbrush.
I would not use a toothbrush actually. There are very very few times when you should ever scrub a screen with a brush. That is about 3rd or 4th down the line of troubleshooting steps.

You might swipe over the screen with a soft toothbrush, holding it loosely in your fingers and making a single pass across each section of the screen, but not "scrubbing" as in holding it firmly and applying pressure and scrubbing back and forth. This type of cleaning should be reserved for undesireable growth that won't come off with scarping and rubbing & rinsing.

Think of the "toothbrush swipe" as a step above the fingertup rub & rinse. It's a slightly more aggressive cleaning, and shouldn't be used unless your screen is past a certain stage of maturation - maybe only past the 2 month point, so you should have plenty of well-established and "anchored" growth that would be able to withstand a toothbrush pass. Otherwise, that can easily wipe off a majority of the growth and your screen could be too clean, and your growth could revert temporarily because there's too much light post-cleaning

When in doubt, clean less aggressively. Once growth kicks in strong, it'll withstand most any cleaning short of a hard scrub with a stiff brush.


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