| SILVER POLISH
Cover the bottom of a glass or plastic pan with aluminum foil. Pour
in about 1 cup boiling water and add 2 teaspoons of baking soda, and 1
teaspoon salt. Stir to dissolve.
Drop the silver pieces into the liquid and make sure each piece of silverware
is touching. The tarnish will slowly disappear before your eyes. Rinse
and buff dry.
For severely tarnished silver, more than one treatment may be necessary.
POLISHING CLOTH
2 pounds Whiting (white, powdery substance, prepared by grinding chalk
or some other source of calcium carbonate. When mixed with linseed oil
it forms putty, and with water and several other substances it constitutes
whitewash. It is used as a pigment, called Spanish white, as a filler
in paints, for polishing metalware, and for various other purposes.
2 ounces Oleic Acid
1 gallon Gasoline (untreated or use Benzine)
Mix thoroughly.
Soak cloths, wring out, let dry. Use cutting flannel for clothes. Do
not use gasoline containing lead. This cloth is for silverware and other
metal surfaces.
METAL POLISH
3/4 gallon Water
1/2 pound Whiting
1 pound Tripoli (brown buffing compound)
1/2 pound Silica
3 ounces Oxalic Acid
PROCESS: Mix well in a 10 quart pail. Cleans all metals, prevents rust.
Put in coloring, if desired (use water soluble acid proof color).
NOTE: The oxalic acid renders this poisonous. If desired non-poisonous,
substitute Citric Acid for the oxalic. Use finest powdered tripoli and
powdered silica possible to avoid scratching of surface being polished.
KEEP YOUR SILVER SHINY LONGER After cleaning and polishing
silver, spray with a light coat of common hair spray. This is for the
outside of tea services, silver collectibles, etc., not on silverware
or serving utinsels that will touch food. |
