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<p>[QUOTE="Cherryhill, post: 1957225, member: 70"]OK. There are two kinds of Sickness, (at least). One is deposit. If a liquid evaporates and has left behind a deposit, this can be removed with a mild abrasive, shaking rice in it may help. </p><p><br /></p><p>Another Sickness is corrosion. Some acids will attack glass, dissolving the surface, leaving it cloudy. This can be cured in some cases, the process is similar to tumbling, polishing stones to make them shiney. One puts an exceedingly fine abrasive powder and a liquid inside the container and rolls it over and over. for like three weeks. continuous. There's a guy in the middle of Indiana farmland that has a building full of these tumblers polishing glass. Kim Carlisle by name. He ought to turn up in a Google search.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Cherryhill, post: 1957225, member: 70"]OK. There are two kinds of Sickness, (at least). One is deposit. If a liquid evaporates and has left behind a deposit, this can be removed with a mild abrasive, shaking rice in it may help. Another Sickness is corrosion. Some acids will attack glass, dissolving the surface, leaving it cloudy. This can be cured in some cases, the process is similar to tumbling, polishing stones to make them shiney. One puts an exceedingly fine abrasive powder and a liquid inside the container and rolls it over and over. for like three weeks. continuous. There's a guy in the middle of Indiana farmland that has a building full of these tumblers polishing glass. Kim Carlisle by name. He ought to turn up in a Google search.[/QUOTE]
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