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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ZeeFinds, post: 4152987, member: 16546&quot;]I&#039;m not a metal or jewelry expert. However, I once found a cool silver ring with a 18k gold heart locket attached to a loop on top of the ring. The heart piece had tiny diamonds. I paid a $1 for it at a flea market. It had the purity stamps for both gold and silver and a teeny maker&#039;s mark but I could never figure out who made it. </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, cool story segway into how I cleaned the silver because there was no way to get into all the spaces because of the design. I found this technique online where you use a boiling pot of water, some baking soda, and a piece of aluminum foil. It&#039;s a safe chemical reaction method for cleaning the silver–no fumes, safe to touch without gloves (besides the boiling part <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />. You might have to double check the ingredients list, pretty sure that was all it took. Something about the electrons make an exchange and presto! silver is bright and shiny after a couple minutes of gently swishing it around in the soup with an everyday utensil. It really worked. Felt like I was on an episode of Mr. Wizard if you know that 80s show from Nickelodeon?</p><p><br /></p><p>Double-check those three ingredients and search to see if there&#039;s a method for other metals or if that mixture will work on this. I&#039;m not sure what metal you are dealing with?</p><p><br /></p><p>...so I looked it up already <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie76" alt=":pompous:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> there&#039;s salt and vinegar too in some of the silver cleaning recipes. Good Luck![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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