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Cleaning a heavily tarnished fireplace fender

wait4me · 2012-12-01 17:50:02

A friend of mine has a heavily tarnished brass fireplace fender. Brasso does not seem to have worked (don't know how much effort was put into it). Anybody have any ideas? Thanks

01-12-2012 6:50pm

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A friend of mine has a heavily tarnished brass fireplace fender. Brasso does not seem to have worked (don't know how much effort was put into it).

Anybody have any ideas? Thanks

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#2 01-12-2012 8:40pm

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"Barkeepers Friend" does a good job on heavily tarnished copper and brass, failing that try Autosol (available from motor factors). Either way a certain amount of elbow grease is required.

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#3 02-12-2012 1:11am

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Forgot about "Barkeepers Friend" which is great stuff - will try that first and see how we get on - thanks!

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#4 02-12-2012 1:16am

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Vinegar.

Us fishkeeping folk use it to get rid of scale and salt build up on fishtank equipement.

Milton fluid is also a very handy trick to do aswell.

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