How to Clean a Pennant?

[canjond]

I recently purchased the pennant below which is quite dirty. How would I go about cleaning it? Thanks guys!

[pclpads]

Dry cleaner?

[baseball tourist]

Lots of info on bleaching as an option in this thread around post # 1019 and after.

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthr...Bleach&page=13

I'd love to hear your process. I have some white pennants from the late 60's and early 70's that I want to clean up.

“Been experimenting with OxiClean (of Billy Mays fame) and thus far the results have been humorous. If you want to know how to turn a 1950's travel pennant into a completely blank pennant PM me. “

Hoping to have some time over the long weekend to experiment some more.
I use painters tape to tape off the colored border. Spray with straight bleach from a spray bottle. The pennant will be white in a matter of minutes. Then spray copiously with straight water. The one with the batter and ball also looked like hell when I got it.”

[ooo-ribay]

Originally Posted by baseball tourist

Lots of info on bleaching as an option in this thread around post # 1019 and after.


I use painters tape to tape off the colored border. Spray with straight bleach from a spray bottle. The pennant will be white in a matter of minutes. Then spray copiously with straight water. The one with the batter and ball also looked like hell when I got it.”

Thst may have been me that was quoted. I was always a huge proponent of bleaching and had many successes......until I totally ruined a pretty valuable pennant . The ruined pennant had red ink/paint that bled into everything. I will for sure never bleach another pennant that has red ink and my bad experience may have scared me off for good.

[Showdawg]

Ive used SHOUT, a tooth brush, and warm water and its worked like wonders

[CobbSpikedMe]

I'd love to hear more stories about cleaning pennants and the do's and don'ts as I have an old Saginaw Gears pennant that is filthy. I'd really like to clean it up if there are good ways to do it without harming the thing. It's supposed to be white by the way.

AndyH

[brownscollector78]

Hey guys I've been reading through some of these older posts and I've been thinking about using the bleach method on this pennant.



Do you think this would work out well? It looks like somebody else screwed it up in the past so if I could clean up that white that would be great.

[ooo-ribay]

Originally Posted by brownscollector78

Hey guys I've been reading through some of these older posts and I've been thinking about using the bleach method on this pennant.



Do you think this would work out well? It looks like somebody else screwed it up in the past so if I could clean up that white that would be great.

I’ve done my share of bleaching. My gut feeling on your pennant is that the white will get whiter but the graphics will fade even further. Oxyclean is a milder option but it only seems to work on newer, more synthetic pennants. Good luck!

[Vintagedeputy]

Has anyone ever tried the dishwasher?

[NiceDocter]

What next? Drive em through the car wash?

[ser1979]

I've bleached several white pennants with good results, the only one I've messed up had red in it and I ended up throwing the pennant away. On my older wool pennants I use Retro-clean and warm water. I've never destroyed a pennant using this method.