cleaning the vintage high chair

I have a vintage red vinyl highchair that I got for free last year. I saw a posting on craigslist from a lady who was unloading everything in two garages for free, first come first serve. I got a few things from those garages, but this is one of my favorites. I had been on the look out for vintage items especially vinyl.

Please ignore the mess surrounding the high chair.

As you can see although it's in very good condition, no rips and is structurally sound it doesn't look clean to eat off of. So I took some goo gone and attempted to clean it. Here it is after the first scrubbing.

Still doesn't look like you should eat off of it.


It appeared like the goo gone wasn't spreading all over. Goo gone is a very oily substance. I wasn't thinking at the time how water and oil don't mix very well, I just thought I wanted to spread out the solution more, so I combined it in a spray bottle with some water. That was when I was reminded of how oil and water don't mix, the oily solution went straight to the top. I did the only thing I could think of, before every spray I shook the bottle and sprayed. This helped to get some solution and some water. After I sprayed it I let it sit for a while.

This is what it looks like after it sat with the solution and I then scrubbed it again. Although it looks better then it did in the beginning it still shouldn't be eaten off of.

So in the end I used a bottle of goo gone from the dollar store and I got all of this off of the highchair and it's still not clean.

I was thinking of silver polish that you use on silverware and bowls and such. My bf thinks I should look for a metal cleaner. I don't know what I should use next. I would prefer to try other solutions to get it clean before I go to the last resort for this highchair which is spray paint. I love spray paint, but in this circumstance I would rather keep it original unless I end up not having any other choice.

Any suggestions?

junk cart

I was reading back through old post I have made and I found my junk thesis theory post. I said "I am officially on the look out for an old styled grocery cart that was originally used to tote all your grocerys home, but for which I will use to tote all my junk treasures home."

I forgot that I posted that or I would have updated on it sooner. A while back there was an ad on www.craigslist.com from a lady that said she had a garage full of stuff that she wanted gone. I had my sister call her and ask her about it and it was a ton of various things, but the bottom line was she wanted it all gone. Some people had already come and gone but there was still tons left over. We got the address and went when I got off of work. There was actually two garages full of stuff. My sister and I went junking through them both and actually found some stuff to bring home. My top two prizes from this junk day was an old vinyl red high chair


and a yellow grocery buggy. So the search for the buggy is over.

signed junker