Update on cleaning beads

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Cleaning these beads has been an experience. Dawn followed by a long soak in baking soda worked on a couple of hand-fulls. Adding a wash in dilute white vinegar cleaned up about another third. The rest of the beads still had a distressing musty basement smell until I soaked them in one of the denture cleaners!
Now, on to sorting them all out!