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<p>[QUOTE="MrNate, post: 4407562, member: 5515"]I will tell on myself and say I did experiment with it. Let me start my saying I don’t recommend what I tried. I had a particularly challenging tarnish on a set of flatware. So what I tried was to stick q-tips cut at the center and put them on the end of a dremel with silver polish. Here’s what I figured out after just one spoon:</p><p><br /></p><p>-It was unavoidable that every now and then the metal part of the dremel would come in contact with the silver, leaving a scrape. </p><p><br /></p><p>-I also found the speed of the rotation heated up the polish and the silver, I got some pretty unimpressive swirl marks that were permanent.</p><p><br /></p><p>I concluded that the technique may speed up the process but not the quality of the work, so I abandoned the technique quickly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="MrNate, post: 4407562, member: 5515"]I will tell on myself and say I did experiment with it. Let me start my saying I don’t recommend what I tried. I had a particularly challenging tarnish on a set of flatware. So what I tried was to stick q-tips cut at the center and put them on the end of a dremel with silver polish. Here’s what I figured out after just one spoon: -It was unavoidable that every now and then the metal part of the dremel would come in contact with the silver, leaving a scrape. -I also found the speed of the rotation heated up the polish and the silver, I got some pretty unimpressive swirl marks that were permanent. I concluded that the technique may speed up the process but not the quality of the work, so I abandoned the technique quickly.[/QUOTE]
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