No use crying over spilt milk, unless....

Walter Bowden · From: Wilmington, North Carolina, USA

I have a small, self made pedal board with 3 stompboxes and a power supply box I use with my guitar or steel.

Other night at home, I was playing my guitar in my lounge chair drinking some milk to relax and get ready for bed.

I reached out for a capo and knocked the glass of milk on my pedal board and the floor. I cleaned up the floor and set the pedal board aside for the next day and off to bed.

2 days later, duh, when I looked at my pedal board I discovered milk had "cured" on my stompboxes, patch cables, power supply wires and pedal board. I learned dried milk is a really pesky substance to clean and has ways of getting into all the nooks and crannies it can.

I had to pull the boxes off the board, unscrew/pull off the control knobs, undo the DC supply wiring and patch cables and wipe them down with warm water and damp cloth several times as well as using contact cleaner when hooking it all back up.

I suppose I should be grateful I wasn't playing my steel; I can't imagine the PITA cleaning dried milk out of a changer or other sensitive area of a steel must be. BTW, over the years I have had all kinds of liquids, man made and natural, spill on my pedals but I never thought milk could be this pesky.

Anyone have any stories or experiences with such as this? I've hear of "milking the phrase" but I don't think it meant this.
Best wishes, Walter
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Dave Hopping · From: Aurora, Colorado

The horse is already stolen. Winking

Lane Gray · From: Topeka, KS

One fact from reading my grandfather's patents (chemist in food, adhesives and oil in the early 20th century): wallpaper adhesive is casein based.
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Carl Kilmer · From: East Central, Illinois

Always have a cat close by. They'll remove it real quick. Laughing

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Walter Bowden · From: Wilmington, North Carolina, USA

Good suggestion Carl.
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Clete Ritta · From: San Antonio, Texas

I once had a rather large amount of birthday cake land right on my pedalboard many years ago. Just like peanut butter on bread, it always seems to land sticky side down. Confused

The frosting got into everything and took a similar amount of detailing to get cleaned. Later, my keyboardist jokingly recommended making a pedalboard condom out of saran wrap for future events which may involve any liquid or dessert toppings. Razz

Mark van Allen · From: Watkinsville, Ga. USA

Walter, many of us have similar stories about the difficulty of getting beer out of pedals and such. All I can contribute is that a good single malt is superior in every way. including "clean up".
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Walter Bowden · From: Wilmington, North Carolina, USA

Hey Mark. I've heard the same about vodka.
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Clyde Mattocks · From: Kinston, North Carolina, USA

Why do the drunks always puke on the P.A. cables? That be the worst!
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Dave Mudgett · From: Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee

Believe me, Clyde - it's worse if they throw up on your guitar or steel. Been there, done that, shoulda' got a t-shirt, but all you get is a bunch of loud, annoying drunks. That's why I essentially never play football weekends and definitely never play St. Patrick's Day here at the in-town student bars. Too many amateurs out there drinking way too much.

Guys - when you get milk, beer, or probably the worst, soda, pop, tonic, or whatever you wanna call it - on your sensitive electronic gear or guitars, you need to get it off immediately. If some idiot spills stuff on my gear at a gig, unless the band wants to pay for my gear, I just go deal with it right then and there, no waiting. If we're playing some dive with idiots who spill stuff or throw up onto a stage, we can bloody well take a break.

Willie Sims · From: PADUCAH, KY, USA

Have you ever tried removing someone butt off of the top of your guitar? I had a drunken lady stagger onstage in a nightclub and was trying to sing on the microphone when she stepped backwards sat down on my guitar. Turned into a butt lifting job, and another time in a holy roller church, one of the good sisters got and the spirit and fellover the guardrail on the top of my guitar. No damage to the guitar funny in a way but not necessarylyAt the same time.

Don Griffiths · From: Steelville, MO

Well.. I had a new dog that wasn't quite house broken yet, with a bad case of diarrhea decide to squat over my Line 6 delay pedal. I cleaned it off thoroughly with some of that pet odor neutraliZer stuff. It worked fine and I forgot all about it until about 2 years later it quit working .I took it in to get fixed and when I went to pick it up I had to inquire the tech about the cause of the malfunction. He said " it looks like something really corrosive got spilled on it and dripped inside" . "Oh" is all I said. Embarassed

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George Rout · From: St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada

Back in the '50's, I learned qickly not to stand a cold beer on an amplifier with hot tubes!!!!

Geo
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Bud Angelotti · From: Larryville, NJ, USA

Time to revisit "Milk Cow Blues"
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