Grapeshot and sturrip cleaning with distilled white vinegar

[treblehunter]

Okay, here are the "before" pix.











And here are the "after" pix. These were in distilled white vinegar for seven days. I had much better results than my electrolysis set up and did it right here in my office.









Thanks Tnmountain and Q
Brad

 

[Jpro]

Looks good. I use the vinegar method also. Never has been a problem getting all things iron to clean up.
Good job!!!

 

[mariposagold]

Nice results.

 

[MT_Joe]

Nice improvement!

 

[Old Dude]

Are the "after" pics the result of only soaking in vinegar or did you wire brush it too? Very good results treb.

 

[Davers]

Nice Relics & Great cleaning results .
Davers

 

[treblehunter]

Are the "after" pics the result of only soaking in vinegar or did you wire brush it too? Very good results treb.

I forgot to add that, I knocked the crust/heavy stuff off first, and then I wire brushed it with a stainless steel wire brush once a day. I only changed the vinegar once during the seven days.

Thanks everyone for looking and commenting on my thread. I was given the idea from Q who got it from Tnmountain, thank's guys!

 

[slowwevo]

good info..and great save

 

[sweetrelease]

they cleaned up very nice,good job!

 

[ModernMiner]

Those came out great Brad. I tried the vinegar method too on an old padlock and it came out great.
Thanks for the post,
Doug

 

[Sawyer]

Still looks old to me!

 

[creade]

Man that cleaned up great I've gotta try that with my items now