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<p>[QUOTE="BMRT, post: 650558, member: 10892"]Progress from yesterday. I submerged the ring in olive oil and gave it a light cleaning with my nylon bristled paint brush.</p><p><br /></p><p>I saw some videos online and there is no reason chunks of this stuff should have started coming off already but it did. Slightly surprised but curious, I put it back in the olive oil and ran it over with a cloth off and on for several hours. [ATTACH=full]184207[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]184208[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]184209[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]184211[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Around 1030 PM after the little ones had scuttled off to bed, I showed Mr. BMRT what was going on and he suggested if I was going to “go for broke” anyway to use a stronger cleaner. His suggestion was either lemon or vinegar.</p><p><br /></p><p>So into lemon juice it went. And here we are today after being buffed by a toothbrush & the lemon: [ATTACH=full]184217[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]184218[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]184219[/ATTACH] I didn’t want to jump to vinegar. My mother used to clean her copper and bronze kitchen things with a Valentina hot sauce solution. I’m going to try that next and see what happens.</p><p><br /></p><p>At this point the original look was much more attractive but I still feel it was “helped” by whoever found this ring. Some of the design I’m seeing does not match what was on the patina. I’m thinking it was lightly etched in to make it look nicer based on the best guess on what was clearly visible on the top of the crust.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="BMRT, post: 650558, member: 10892"]Progress from yesterday. I submerged the ring in olive oil and gave it a light cleaning with my nylon bristled paint brush. I saw some videos online and there is no reason chunks of this stuff should have started coming off already but it did. Slightly surprised but curious, I put it back in the olive oil and ran it over with a cloth off and on for several hours. [ATTACH=full]184207[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]184208[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]184209[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]184211[/ATTACH] Around 1030 PM after the little ones had scuttled off to bed, I showed Mr. BMRT what was going on and he suggested if I was going to “go for broke” anyway to use a stronger cleaner. His suggestion was either lemon or vinegar. So into lemon juice it went. And here we are today after being buffed by a toothbrush & the lemon: [ATTACH=full]184217[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]184218[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]184219[/ATTACH] I didn’t want to jump to vinegar. My mother used to clean her copper and bronze kitchen things with a Valentina hot sauce solution. I’m going to try that next and see what happens. At this point the original look was much more attractive but I still feel it was “helped” by whoever found this ring. Some of the design I’m seeing does not match what was on the patina. I’m thinking it was lightly etched in to make it look nicer based on the best guess on what was clearly visible on the top of the crust.[/QUOTE]
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