SPOILER!!: Tobias
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Originally Posted by
Felixir 
Ooooh, that was the Gryffindor kid that Toby had found himself getting all annoyed with. Thinking back to those lessons, especially now he was around his beloved brooms which always had a super calming effect on Toby, the boy felt super bad. Incredibly guilty. He resolved to make it up to the boy, even though he'd never said anything out loud about anything.
Soooooooo Tobias put on his friendly grin and raised a hand in greeting. "'Sup."
He didn't know why he kept saying that word. He'd literally never said it before today. But apparently Toby was trying to be cool now.
And then Sander was speaking and Toby looked back. This seemed as good a place as any to sit, after all. Tobias looked around and found a stool nearby. He hooked his foot around it a dragged it a little closer so he could sit with Sander. As he lowered himself to sit, Tobias felt another twinged in his lower back, and made a mental note of himself to use more of that awesome pain relief stuff there as well. Though at this rate, he'd be running out very soon.
But for now, brooms.
"Technically, we can do either first. The only time order really matters is when dealing with the tail twigs, after all, 'cause you gotta soak or clean them clipping," Tobias said laying the broom over his knees and unzipping his jacket, as it had gone all bunched up. He loosened his scarf to take it off, and set it down beside him. "We can do the broom handles first, I always have a tendency to start with the tail twigs."
But yes. Polish. Sander had already picked up some polish, so Tobias reached back to the broom servicing stuff with a little wince as he stretched, and picked up two rags for polishing. One to put the polish on, one to take it back off.
Wax on, wax off.
He turned back to Sander and smiled, as was his custom. The older Hufflepuff had retrieved the polish to Toby would wait until he'd used it before asking to share.
SPOILER!!: West
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Originally Posted by
Tegz "Alright sure." West responded to Tyner agreeably and began half-filling a couple of buckets with warm water, and then he measured a cleaning solution into the buckets too. Was that Toby kid going to join him then? Based on his question.. yeah? No? Whichever.
"Okay anyone who wants to help out over here, make sure you follow the steps right, okay? We can start a chain, pass the clean ones down to the clippers and polishers." He took a seat with a bucket in front of him between his feet, and two towels over his knee. West picked a broom up and submerged the twigs in the solution.
"Let it soak for a minute and then gently stir the broom in the solution clockwise ten times." He said. "Dirt effects how brooms fly. Its the first thing you should do if you're cleaning or maintaining your own broom too." Even before clipping or polishing. "Try not to slosh it too much either." He started stirring gently, counting in his head to ten times.
"Then we let it sit another minute and stir counter-clockwise ten times. Then we lift it out and let the solution drip back into the bucket. Once that is done we wrap the towels around the twigs. We do that so that the liquid remaining gets soaked up from the twigs, and also to keep outside gunk off the twigs while they dry. Then we can give them to polish people, and they can do the handles."
HOPEFULLY people doing polish knew what they were doing and all. West would just focus on this side of things.
Good they would be polishing the brooms handles after all. Sander picked up a rag and was going to stick in in the container before he realized that the younger
boy was waiting for something. He looked enquiringly at the boy before he realized that Toby was most likely waiting politely to start using the wax first. Sander returned his smile and moved the tin of polish closer to Toby.
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Here dig in," Sander encouraged the boy as he removed the lid of the tin, scooped up a Knut's size glob of polish and waited for the boy to do the same before quickly closing the lid. Then he began working the polish into the rag for about a minute or two to allow the polish to warm up, which would make it easier to apply. this action will warm up the polish and make it easier to apply.
Then he gently rubbed the polish onto the broom handle in a small circular pattern, making sure that he overlapped the areas as he moved along. Sander took his time,as he rubbed the polish in. He even began to hum a song. Once he was sure he had completely polished all over the handle, he paused and waited for five minutes. As he waited, he could see the polish beginning to dry and leaving a hazy finish on the wood. He then grabbed a clean towel and began gently buffing off the dried polish in a small circular pattern. He worked all the way up and down the handle.
Then he repeated the polishing steps again. When he had finished, he started another round of buffing the broom handle after the second polish application. This time he continued buffing until he began to see a fuzzing reflection of himself on it. Sander could have stopped but he had promised the Professor that he would make it so shiny that she could see her face in it, so he continued to buff and buff until his reflection in the broom handle became clearer and clearer.
Satisfied with his work, he placed the broom leaning against the wall where he was seated.
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How's it going at your end, Toby?" Sander asked his friend as he waited for the Slytherin Captain to hand him the next cleaned broom.