Audios S6
11-10-2013, 08:38 PM
I decided to clean up our silver service today. This is silver plate, not sterling, so you have to be very careful not to 'burn through' the plating, which requires very fine abrasives. The knife handles are hollow which does not allow for chemical dips. As such, I used a smat product, M205.
Just rubbed on with a MF towel and buffed off. Needless to say, this is for food, so a thorough IPA wipedown was also done. This silverware is around 100 years old; so lots of swirls, RIDS and oxidation/tarnish. The tarnish came off with minimal effort, I've learned to live with the swirls and RIDS. I will be looking into the safest means to restore the luster, probably use a jeweller's rouge or something similar, I tried some chromium oxide crayon, but it wasn't doing the trick.
Before:
http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/picture.php?albumid=507&pictureid=3842
After:
http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/picture.php?albumid=507&pictureid=3843
Next, I need to find a food safe LSP (probably camelia oil) :hungry:
Just rubbed on with a MF towel and buffed off. Needless to say, this is for food, so a thorough IPA wipedown was also done. This silverware is around 100 years old; so lots of swirls, RIDS and oxidation/tarnish. The tarnish came off with minimal effort, I've learned to live with the swirls and RIDS. I will be looking into the safest means to restore the luster, probably use a jeweller's rouge or something similar, I tried some chromium oxide crayon, but it wasn't doing the trick.
Before:
http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/picture.php?albumid=507&pictureid=3842
After:
http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/picture.php?albumid=507&pictureid=3843
Next, I need to find a food safe LSP (probably camelia oil) :hungry: