Cool, I’ll add clean and wax hinge to my to do list.  

Who would have thought! 

Eric 

> On Jul 7, 2021, at 9:51 AM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
> Thomas,
> 
> Aluminum dust? The hinges are steel, with electroplated galvanized coating ( zinc) . The hinge bolts steel too.
> But I do agree that the dust is from the mechanism rubbing.  If you don’t want to paint the hinges, try some hard car wax.
> 
> Alistair 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Jul 6, 2021, at 2:26 PM, Thomas Casal <thomas.casal@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> That’s what I thought it was but it looks so black. Anyway to stop creating
>> the aluminum powder?
>> 
>>> On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 1:25 PM <stuartmacm@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> That's mostly aluminum powder from the hinge wearing, and likely can't be
>>> cleaned off, since it's so fine and embedded in the fibers.  No way for
>>> much "dirt" to get up there.
>>> Stuart
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com> On Behalf Of
>>> Thomas Casal
>>> Sent: Tuesday, July 6, 2021 7:23 AM
>>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>>> Subject: Pop top canvas hinge dirt
>>> Hey volks,
>>> What do you guys do to prevent the hinge dust from soiling your pop top
>>> canvas? I have a few year old canvas and it looks terrible with that hinge
>>> dirt on it. I don’t even know if an upholstery cleaner will clean it. Peace
>>> Tom