OK, so there is some smoke to remove.

Otherwise, is the drum in "Good Nick"? Ha ha?

Imagine what the human lung looks after after years of exposure to tobacco smoke!!

Keep your lungs clean and healthy :)

Kleening

Hi,

This is what I do on yellowed wmp:

Use 800 grit wet 'n' dry paper with soapy liquid and warm water.

Rub with even pressure. You will need to rub one area at a time for 10 minutes or so, then keep doing the same evenly around the drum. Work in back and forth motion and not circular. A 16"×16" floor tom can take me two hours to rub back before polishing.

For buffing the shine back into the wrap I use 'Brasso wadding '. Again rub exactly the same as you did with the wet 'n' dry. Again this can take a further two hours. The more you rub with the wadding, the better the depth of pearl and shine. The difference is astonishing! What ever you do, do not use acetone!! It will destroy the wrap.

Hope this helps.

I would think some rubbing compound would work well too and follow up with some Novus polish.

Yes, it probably would. Thats just the way I do it, and I've had fantastic results. You do need a lot of patience though. I'm in the UK, so have never heard of Novus polish, but I presume it's similar to the metal polish (Brasso) that I use.

This is the cleaner I was thinking of. I know the name might lead to certain thoughts, but if it works to clean smoke stain from Plastic & Acrylic might be worth a go. Appears it may be perfect for cleaning wraps and Vistalites.

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Would certainly be a new marketing avenue for the company if it does.

My two cents:

Try 91% isopropyl (or grain if you can get that) on the wrap. Test on an edge but it should cut the tar and not the wrap. A wrap is not much use if you spill a scotch on it at your first gig out and the wrap melts...

Always use soft cloths because fine scratches formed with then trap and hold the gunk you got loose- and then you abrade more....

Once clean, buff with a good nitro lacquer safe compound and a power wheel. Stewart-Macdonald sells the right stuff.

Then seal with a hard carnauba wax.

Chrome I soak in CLR. Best stuff on earth. Rinse in hot water the next day, dry and hard wax. I also soak mount screws and tension screws if rusty...

Your mileage may vary! But these methods work for me.