Author: Elise
Date: 2002-01-31 20:19
I've explored this matter too, and I've found that many of the above methods to cure sticky pads to be quite useful. Coffee filters I've never tried, but dollar bills are usually quite effective and as of yet I don't have any horror stories to share about them ruining my pads. I tend to use whatever I have on me and dollar bills are usually it (twenties work better than singles, by the way :P). I've heard of cigarette papers with adhesive on them getting stuck to pads so I wouldn't go near them--Yamaha and others sell cleaning paper in packets of 100 or so but there are too may other homemade-type solutions to buy them. Bathroom tissue is a silly idea--it will certainly get stuck to your pad, rip, or just your luck, both. Tissue paper, on the other hand, works fairly nicely if you get the right type with not too much sheen. Your friends might pack gifts with it--it's a great way to recycle. Doubling the paper or even tripling it will prevent rips. My recent favorite is gum wrappers. Unusual, I know. I don't even chew gum, but the couple of times that I had I just dropped the wrappers in my case because I was on the go. Little Trident wrappers work nicely--various paper wrappers, not foil ones. They've got some kind of coating on them--but once you use a wrapper it loses it's effectiveness because the coating wears off. Make sure the gum is sugarless, though--you don't need sugar and the like on your pads.
Good luck!
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