Re: cleaning out jacquard tips
Posted by Kenzi on February 17, 2000 at 23:51:57:
In Reply to: cleaning out jacquard tips posted by lisa on February 17, 2000 at 23:29:26:
: I'm having a bitch of a time cleaning all the henna out of my
: microfine jacquard tips. I'm sure there's some dried stuff lurking
: around because I keep getting lots of clogs, and this batch of
paste
: is smoother than my last one.
: Anyone have any hints on how to get every last bit of henna out of
the
: tips?
It may be too late for this now, but as soon as you finish with a
tip, just drop it in a bowl of water, preferably hot water. Even if
you might use it again in 10 minutes, it's better to get then in
water before the henna dries.
For your tips that already have dried henna in them, put them in hot
water and leave them overnight. This should at the very least loosen
any dried henna that's in there, and then you can scrape it out. For
the very tip, try using a twist-tie with the paper/plastic peeled
off...just poke it in there from either side and slide it through,
and twist it around. Then run water through the tip. For the wider
part of the tip I usually use a q-tip. Run water through it again to
get rid of any dislodged henna paste. It should be pretty clean by
now. I usually take a small mouthful of water and blow it out
through the tip and make sure that the water coming out is free of
henna. That should do it.
The best idea is prevention...always soak the tips, even if you are
only going to let it sit there for 10 minutes. And when you're done
working, don't leave the tip on the bottle, and put the plastic cap
on the bottle to make sure that the plastic tip doesn't get dried
henna in it.
If you get clogs while working, just blow into the bottle, pushing
the clog back into the paste, then shake the bottle to redistribute
the paste and get fresh, smooth stuff up near the tip.