Cleaning & Preserving Buttons

[jeff of pa]

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[civilman1]

Thank's Jeff....I know something like this is pretty fragile....here today and gone tommorrow.I'm still lookin' for a recipe.....

[Hill City Rebel]

Regarding that article stating that you should drop your button in a solution of ammonia and water... Be careful. Ammonia will eat the copper in a button, so expose the button to it for only a short time. Something else the article left out - THROUGHLY soak and wash the button after removing it from the ammonia. Any ammonia left in or on the button will continue to do its dirty work.