How do you clean your pony display?

Star_Flare

Star_Flare

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My ponies are getting a bit dusty and I'm wondering how people who have large collections dust them? Am I going to have to take every pony off the shelf to dust individually or is there some trick out there to do it faster? I know I have well over a hundred ponies and I'd like to clean them as efficiently as possible. Do Swiffer dusters work well for that?
 
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I take em all off the shelf, dust that, then give em a quick wipe but my collection isn't that big yet.

Swiffers are a good idea.
 
I've considered the canned air stuff but haven't tried it yet. I'm betting nothing's gonna do it as good as just dusting each one at a time though.
 
When I get a Pony Room they'll have to share it with my action figures and anime crap, but I figure Ponies are gracious and can get along with almost anyone.

Right now I have one lone shelf with about 200-250 or my faves crammed on it. There are fakies and a reindeer mixed in. They aren't rare or valuable, but of high sentimental reasons because of who gave them to me. Each Pony is special to me for an abundance of factors. I'm disgustingly nostalgic.
 
I've been spending the last year and a half slowly cleaning my entire collection (thorough, wash every pony kinda cleaning). I had realized that a lot of them had never been cleaned (G3s that I opened myself, for example, but we're looking at ten years worth of dust now!) :surprisepony: So...I guess I'm saying...try not to let it go too long? :winkpony:

Elf
 
I cleaned my childhood collection this summer, most which are fakies. All got a bath, and I conditioned their hair. There was no dust or mold, which I'm grateful for, and none had cancer. I guess our basement aren't that damp, pheuw!
Now they are displayed with my newer ponies, and I tend to dust a little when rearranging. ;)
 
Swiffer dusters are the most infinitly useful cleaning device in the universe, especially if your dust allergies are as bad as mine and when dusting with a damp rag sends you into a wheezing fit.
I'd just take them all off the shelf once a month (or more depending on your dust level) dust the shelf and wipe down the ponies and put them all back.
 
I hate dusting so all my pony shelves are covered with clear vinyl. (Most craft stores and some Walmart's and hardware stores sell clear vinyl sheets by the foot, in various thicknesses. The price per foot varies by thickness and place. Hobby lobby calls it Clear Magic Cover Vinyl Fabric.) This is what I'm talking about. http://www.joann.com/clear-vinyl--4-gauge/1151505.html?green=748537EC-E631-52D9-B0A3-43F6D8DE2C65

Most of my shelves I just used sticky backed Velcro to attach it to the front (and back) of the shelves. My main G1 shelf that I custom built I made a door and attached the vinyl to the door frame and then lined the inside of the door with weather striping. It was a bit of a project but haven't had to dust those ponies in over 6 years. :)



There is a bit of a glare if light is directed straight at it, but for the most part (and after its been hanging for a few weeks and all creases have had time to disappear) You really can't tell the plastics there. Like in this photo you can only tell its there where the camera flash hit it.

 
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