Question regarding cleaning bottles

[West Jersey Detecting]

I have been metal detecting for 7 years. The better I get at MDing, the more glass I recover. What are the best methods of cleaning bottles? Some have very stubborn sediment or "rust".

Also small perfume sized bottles seem to be extremely difficult to clean.

It seems like all of the bottle cleaning brushes are too large, or have metal protruding from the end.

What are the methods you use? I would like to know.

 

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[downindixie]

Try some CLR for a couple days soak.If the glass is sick(milky stain look) tumbling is the only way.

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

Try some CLR for a couple days soak.If the glass is sick(milky stain look) tumbling is the only way.

CLR?

 

[downindixie]

CLR is sold in most grocery stores.The letters stand for Calicium,Lime and Rust.Its a household cleaner used for cleaning clogged shower heads and stains in commodes.Its commercials are usually on late night T.V..It works.

 

[Rich]

the real only way to remove sickness from a bottle is to tumble it.i bought atumbler for quite a few bucks but worth it due to the bottles i have....
try the CLR,if it dosent remove the white stains then you need to tumble...

 

[laralucine]

For sediment (not "sick" glass), pour salt into the bottle, add a little bit of water (so the salt is "slushy"), and swirl. Like everyone said, if the bottles are sick and you want to display them, you need to tumble them. Here are two bottle forums w/ good info:
http://bottledigger.net/
http://www.antique-bottles.net/forum/
Lara