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andersonengineering
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 Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 11:04 am Post subject: Can you polish/buff mouthpieces |
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Can you clean and or buff a dirty mouthpiece? What can/should I do l/use?
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Turkle
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| Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 11:20 am Post subject: Re: Can you polish/buff mouthpieces |
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| andersonengineering wrote: | | Can you clean and or buff a dirty mouthpiece? What can/should I do l/use? |
Are you sure it's not just tarnished?
Toothpaste is a mild abrasive and will take the tarnish right off your silver-plated mouthpieces.
If, on the other hand, the plating is worn or corroded off and you're looking at pitted raw brass, there's likely not much you can do.
Good luck.
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cheiden
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| Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 11:22 am Post subject: |
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I've never needed any more than a standard brush for the inside and a regular silver polishing cloth for the exterior.
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lipshurt
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| Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 1:20 pm Post subject: |
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silver polishing liquid or cream and a soft cloth. Nothing else.
Haggerty;s, tarni-shield, wright's ect
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kevin_soda
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| lipshurt wrote: | silver polishing liquid or cream and a soft cloth. Nothing else.
Haggerty;s, tarni-shield, wright's ect |
+1, assuming it's silver plated...
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As a matter of course, I start by a soak in our ultrasonic followed by silver clean dip, final polish on a steel arbor on my 6" Atlas lathe with 3M Tarnishield. If there's any scratches I hand blend them with my "teflon" coated steel knife burnisher. Oftentimes making them look good as new!
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| James Becker wrote: | | As a matter of course, I start by a soak in our ultrasonic followed by silver clean dip, final polish on a steel arbor on my 6" Atlas lathe with 3M Tarnishield. If there's any scratches I hand blend them with my "teflon" coated steel knife burnisher. Oftentimes making them look good as new! |
Yup, I soak in half CLR and water, brush in and out to clean....polish with tarnishield then inspect for fine marks/scratches. Burnish to like new!
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