How do you get furniture wax off of glass

[barb162]

With windex it just keeps endlessly smearing on the glass and won't come off. It reminds me of trying to clean the inside of a windshield

[Left Is Write]

1. Try some vinegar.

[barb162]

2. straight vinegar? Not mixed with water?

Whatever... thanks.

[Left Is Write]

3. Yes, straight white vinegar. It's great for cleaning glass.

I don't know how it will do on the furniture wax, but it's something of a "miracle cleaner."

Why the "whatever"?

[barb162]

7. I would try it both ways but wanted to know if it were to be mixed

with water, what the proportion should be of vinegar to water.

Thank you, I will try the straight vinegar.

[Left Is Write]

9. For cleaning glass, go straight. For floors, dilute with water -

but I don't know the exact proportions.

[barb162]

12. I just went over to my dining room cabinet. It's working!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I tried this one pane of glass and it's really coming off. I did it three times and each time it is coming off more and more. I'll be able to tell more in the morning. But compared to the other panes of glass, it's looking almost normal. I think two more times and I can get that wax totally off. (Windex was just useless; I'd try it every few months and really rub the heck out that glass and I would just smear the wax in different patterns)
THANK YOU.
THANK YOU.
THANK YOU.
THANK YOU.
And Hallelujah

[Left Is Write]

13. You're welcome.

:)

[auntAgonist]

4. vinegar should do it!

You're right, it's like a miracle cleaner.

aA

[QMPMom]

5. If the vinegar doesn't work, there is a product called GooGone

that may work. I use it to take all manner of stuff off dishes, etc. I used it to remove those horrid stickers they put on crystal when I bought some new stemware.

I've seen it at both Michael's and Linens and Things. Maybe Home Depot, too.

[barb162]

8. okay, yeah that stuff is terrible to get off

I have this Lenox plate, "Winter Greetings" with the cardinals, and I have gotten to the point I just leave those stickers on the bottom.
Thank you!

[SPKrazy]

6. Sandblaster!

I mean some kind of cleaner like vingar that LIW suggested, or maybe even Windex?

[WhollyHeretic]

10. Paint thinner or nail polish remover

[sammythecat]

11. I build and finish furniture and

I've always found the best, easiest, and cleanest way is with naphtha. It's cheap, any hardware store or department will carry it in pints. Paint thinner will work too, but it stinks and the smell can linger. Naphtha will quickly evaporate without a trace. I love the stuff.

[barb162]

17. This is a very nice cabinet . I was waxing it and I got the wax

on the upper display case doors, which are wood and glass but mostly glass with this thin wood latticework on the glass. I at first thought, oh no big deal, until I decided to get it off the glass and found I was just smearing it around the glass no matter what I did. There have been numerous times I tried getting that wax off the glass with no luck. I had this big party yesterday and I was looking at that room and the whole place was perfectly clean except those glass doors were smeared and it looked like hell with the lights bouncing off those smears.

I think I will get some naptha. Thanks for the tip there. Would you use naptha on glass doors that have wood lattice over the glass; does it mess up the wood. The lattice wood is something like this photo
http://www.hickorychair.com/Products/Item.asp?bhjs=0&ItemID=1115

[sammythecat]

18. The wood is most likely finished with lacquer or

a polyurethane. If it's an antique it could be shellac. In any case, wiping with naphtha will do no harm.

[Generic Brad]

14. Rubbing alcohol

[some guy]

15. hammer and chisel

oh - I see the vinegar is working.

well, that's probably a better choice anyway...

:D

:hi:

[barb162]

16. Hahahahah

I was ready to do the hammer bit already or start buying Windex stock for all of it I was using