Apple Lisa 1 - restoration project

[Chuck Guzis]

Vinegar! Vinegar! Vinegar! The common household type!

>From a US cook's standpoint, if "vinegar" is specified with no 
qualifiers, the type is determined by the application. 

If I'm making a salad, a flavored vinegar, such as wine or malt or 
even apple cider vinegar is used.  Balsamic vinegar has lots of gunk 
in it and is used for a more complex, somewhat sweet flavor in 
marinades and salad dressings.  I'd never think of using it to clean 
a PCB. Rice wine vinegar is often used in oriental cooking--somewhat 
sticky when the water evaporates.

If I'm pickling (e.g. dill pickles or making sauerkraut), I'll use 
distilled white vinegar (usually about a 5% solution) as it's the 
least expensive (commonly sold in gallon jugs).  The same vinegar is 
used for removing lime deposits from a steam iron or coffee maker and 
for washing windows (if lime stains are present).  Just plain old 
dilute acetic acid, source not important. 

Brass musical instrument players soak their instrument's valves and 
tubing in white vinegar to remove deposits left from saliva.  Doesn't 
hurt the brass at all and leaves little smell behind.

Sulfamic acid (dry crystals obtained from a paint store) is often 
used when cleaning masonry indoors where the fumes of muriatic acid 
would be objectionable.  It's stronger-acting than vinegar, but less 
than muriatic acid and conveniently mixed from the crystals and water 
as needed.

Cheers,
Chuck