Relic cleaning - White Vinegar

[davejb]

Wrong film Doughnut, supercali whatsit is from MARY POPPINS bloody kids

[Whitehunter]

Times up! its been 2 hours

Note how black the sand has gone
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Quick dip in water and rubbed on towel. Couple batches and i've done all my bullets i've ever found

[davejb]

Not bad but you'll have to get rid of the sand now, with the very fine chips you can reuse it quite a few times before changing, or you can wash them, something that you cant really do with sand without causing a real mess, oh by the way I hope thats not one of the good towels or you'll be in big trouble

[Scout]

Most excellent thread.
I had only ever thought about going the electrolysis route.


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Here is a new update on my helmet cleaning. I did not have time yesterday, so it spent another 24 hrs in the vinegar, making it about 50 hrs straight. In total it has been in the bath for 3 days. Today i also scrubbed it down with a rough steel wool pad. Here is the result. Does anyone know if vinegar can eat steel???

Vinegar will eat steel. At least the carbon steel knives, I have used it on.
I used vinegar to stain some customized carbon steel knives. I made the mistake of honing the knife to the finest edge I could give it before exposing the edge to vinegar and 24 hours of immersion not only stained the blade as I wanted, it also ate the very thin edge on the knife leaving a (very) jagged edge. I was a bit surprised, but simply honed the knife again. One learns and does not repeat that particular mistake again.

[Scout]

First medroxyhydroxymethylprogesterone and then...
SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS....

Mummy, make the scary nerds go away ... !









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[davejb]

Steve, he's calling you a nerd, i'd have him for that

[Scout]

Out on the town, I was once provoked by a hooligan complete with unibrow.
With a disarming smile, I called him a nice troglodyte.
He evidently thought it a compliment, because he backed down.
Im still waiting to get jumped by him on a friday evening at the pub, as he is sure to have consulted the aforementioned dick-shun-ary in the meantime.

[LUCKYSTRIKE]

Great result Mate
I like the look of those, cleaned but still looking aged not super shiney like some clean routes achieve !
Luckystrike

[Vegard T]

Why not update this thread with my recent cleanups:
(Please note that the "before" pictures are not of the actual shells pictured in the "after" pictures, but they are pretty much exactly the same):

Before:


After:

[Steve T]

Nice Vegar Those German 20mm are just great ! Such a shame they made them out of plated steel......if they were brass they'd be as good as new

Steve T