Help needed from the pennant experts here

[butchie_t]

Originally Posted by ooo-ribay

Hi Butch - I'm kind of the original "bleacher" in the pennant guys thread.

I would not use bleach on your pennant. Two reasons: red doesn't like bleach and bleach works great on the older, soft felt pennants but doesn't do much on pennants of your vintage.

I would try Oxyclean, with the caveat of watching it closely. Edit: just as bleach doesn’t seem to work well on newer pennants, Oxyclean doesn’t do much for older pennants.

The following pictures are examples of bleach on the 1962 pennant and Oxyclean on the newer one. A bunch more of my Oxycleane results are on page 111.

Thanks Rob!

I have been devouring the main pennant thread and I bow to you in awe and respect. Your collection is beyond amazing. Thanks for the advise and I will give Oxyclean a go.

But not until after I buy a burner pennant and get good on that one first. I have been looking for this Bullets pennant for a long time and that will not be the first one I experiment on just to ‘see’ how it works.

I’ll post before and after picts in the main thread once I get a level of comfort first.

Much appreciate your reply to me.

Cheers,

Butch

[ooo-ribay]

Originally Posted by butchie_t

Thanks Rob!

I have been devouring the main pennant thread and I bow to you in awe and respect. Your collection is beyond amazing. Thanks for the advise and I will give Oxyclean a go.

But not until after I buy a burner pennant and get good on that one first. I have been looking for this Bullets pennant for a long time and that will not be the first one I experiment on just to ‘see’ how it works.

I’ll post before and after picts in the main thread once I get a level of comfort first.

Much appreciate your reply to me.

Cheers,

Butch

I totally understand where you're "coming from." I have had no issues with Oxyclean (I actually used the generic brand) but none of my newer Giants pennants had red in them. If you do a burner pennant, find one with red. If not for the "red issue", I would say 100% just go for it. I think fballguy shows some Oxy results on pennants with red in the other thread.

Even with the red, I'm fairly sure you'll be fine.

[Duluth Eskimo]

Butch,
I just did one from 1981 Stanley Cup for my personal collection and soaked with Retro Clean in warm water for an extended time. Unless there’s rust stains from pinholes, the rest should come out just fine.

[Duluth Eskimo]

With the synthetic fabric you should have little to worry about with color bleed. I’m sure the oxyclean would work fine too, but this stuff is made for restoring with vintage fabric and fine clothing.

[butchie_t]

Awesome information. Making me feel more confident with each post here. Thank you so much for the retro clean info.