cleaning brass

totalsolutions

Use Brasso cleaner, have you tried that?
They may have been laquered and thats why you cannot clean them up. I would unscrew them form the seat as any cleaner marks the wood and I think cleaning them would be easier.

stilernin

Does anyone know how to clean brass please?

I have just acquired a glass topped coffee table, which has brass edging. It is a right angled strip holding the glass, which is over a print, onto the wooden frame of the table.

Not sure if the brass is lacquered so I don't want to attack it too severely to begin with. It is quite grubby and has a couple of green spots.

Does anyone else have a table like this and know how to clean the brass?

Psykicpup

Brasso ...http://www.wilkinsonplus.com/invt/0042549

zcrat41

Hi there,
I recently moved house and unpacked some brass ornaments from my granny. Thing is I was unpacking them after 20 years of storage. They are bird things that hang on the wall (sound horrific when I describe them like that!!). After hours of polishing them REALLY REALLY hard with brasso I seem to only be getting the dirt off the main bodies of the bird and not touching the dirt in the crevices.
Does anyone have any advice about how I can get them clean, I'd really appreciate it,

ZC

allydowd

Use a toothbrush for the crevices.

Either use Barkeepers Friend (available from Tesco etc) or put salt on half a lemon and use that. Buff with a clean cloth.

Or use Ketchup and Worcestershire sauce (Lea and Perrins, for example). Use a clean, damp cloth to rub the sauce of your choice into your brass piece, and then wipe it clean.

greenbee

I use yogurt on brass. Paint it on, ignore it for a while, then rinse and polish. Use a toothbrush or paintbrush (clean) to deal with any detail.

coxy07

Peek metal cleaner (available at Halfords and on line) is the best brass cleaner. Quite expensive but you only need a little and the brass seems to stay clean longer. Reccommended to me by a fireplace showroom.

chalkysoil

I just discovered by accident that Astonish descaling liquid from 99p stores etc cleans brass! It was leaking in the carrier bag so I quickly dumped it in a huge brass bowl I have - and behold! The bowl is about 18" across and has never been clean since I bought it at a jumble sale, now it's mirror clean. I only used less than a quarter of the bottle and did this bowl, a plate and a candle stick in ten minutes. Loads of black stuff appeared the same as with Brasso, so good job I was at the kitchen sink.