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bah, you guys don't watch enough infomercials.... CLR it!
Actually works...DIY.com said:If copper is tarnished, boil article in a pot of water with 1 tablespoon salt and 1 cup white vinegar for several hours. Wash with soap in hot water. Rinse and dry.
No aluminium in my loop - no. MCW60, Apogee, BIP, MCP pump. On a side note, when I rinsed he blocks in lemon juice the colour of the juice turned green.
Sorry I don't smoke so I really don't know where to find ciggarette ashes. Will keep this in mind though.
Was the vinegar old? Errm 2 months old. I don't remember mixing the vinegar with water the first time round. It was pure vinegar. So you're saying that after the acetic acid soak, I should make that 30-30-30 solution? What's it for if the acetic acid can remove tarnish? Would going straight into that 30-30-30 solution and leave the acetic acid aside be better?
I just soaked it in vinegar for a night and in the morning I woke up, the vinegar turned blue, the copper parts were rough, when I wiped them it gave off a yellowish-brown colour and now its stuck with this greyish copper colour. And I was so stupid that after giving them a wash I forgot to dry them it started looking like the statue of liberty.
Any suggestions how to clean this up and remove the roughness? Why did this happen?
I think he knows that And to answer the question:
Sand paper ( 400 grit - 800 grit )
And why did it happen? When copper gets wet it corrodes. This is why the statue of liberty is green, because it is outdoors and gets wet.
I just opened my apogee and found grass... like from outside lol
bah, you guys don't watch enough infomercials.... CLR it!
The light blue signals that only a little bit of copper dissolved. So I would not worry too much. And nope- if you rinsed it well, you don't need any soap.
The vinegar contains Acetic acid which should etch away the copper oxide. Was the vineagar that you used very old or did you dilute it with water?
Here is what I would do. Get a stronger version of acetic acid....
I second that we use Coke to clean copper pennies....Coke is prett yhigh in citric acid, and is actually quite the cleaner. You'll need to rinse it off well with distilled water afterwards to remove and sugar residue.