Silver cleaning disaster need help

[ffordre4]

I have about 30 pieces of silver all marked 925, that was badly tarnished all which was found on the beach, a fellow MD'r buddy mentioned he cleaned his rings in his tumbler and the rings came out clean. I proceeded to try this and when I opened the tumbler all my rings were a light pink color. It was done with the blue rocks to clean silver and clad coins. Did I ruin all my silver? I thought maybe it was cheap silver rings but not every single piece. Any suggestions??

 

[HISPAN]

Hello, It happened to me a similar thing but with a little treasure of Spanish silver coins and citric acid technique of putting the coins in lemon juice ..... . Well I tell you what happened:
The treasure consisted of more than 30 pieces of silver from the last 300 years of circulation from Philip V to the Queen Elizabeth II, and was buried during the monetary reform of the latter Reina in the 18th century, all these coins were rejected for being worn or not be good. It turned out that half were good and others not .... then the citric acid coated broke a counterfeit coin silver and copper made in other currencies esuciar all that was good.
I think one of your silver jewelry and silver was tarnishing the rest, I hope I've been able to allude ..... sure someone will tell you exactly happened to her jewelry.
greetings!

 

[Nick A]

Definitely fixable. Could be one bad piece in the bunch, or your rocks were contaminated from a previous batch of copper coins. No worries, just tumble again with a clean tumbler and new rocks for a short time. If you think one (or more) of the rings is the culprit, you should be able to pick it out pretty easily. A quick acid bath would probably remove the pink too, but then the rings wouldn't be so bright. I'm sure others will have ideas as well but that's what first popped into my mind.

 

[Curious The George]

Go to the jewelry counter in a WalMart and purchase the silver cleaning cloth that they sell. I use one on all the common silver items that I find. Cleans stuff up nicely.

 

[Kieth-Tx]

You can also go to most jewelers and they sell a bottle silver cleaner that you simply drop into the solution for 10-15 seconds and it will remove all tarnish...then use a soft clothe...works great. Have tumbled quite a bit and if you miss just 1 copper penny and it tumbles with your silver...it ALL comes out pink like you described!

 

[maddog]

Try using baking soda - it cleans silver real well. Put a little water in a bowl and add the baking soda. Use your fingers and rub it - rinse and dry off. Hope it helps.

 

[Kanyontreasures]

use car polish

 

[Texasgopher]

Try using baking soda - it cleans silver real well. Put a little water in a bowl and add the baking soda. Use your fingers and rub it - rinse and dry off. Hope it helps.

This is what I do as well. Works great!

TG

 

[HCW]

If that was plated silver you may have damaged the plating. If it's solid silver just use silver polish .Toothepaste also works well. Personally, I would never put something made of a precious metal in a tumbler.

 

[SkyPirate]

Tarn-X

 

[goldnugget]

Re: Try this Method

I would try one Piece and put it in some clean water-The put in a piece of Aluminum foil and some Baking Soda. The chemical reaction usually takes off Dark Spots in Coins.

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

Hello

Lots of way's to clean sterling silver. I would not suggest using Tarnex it smells bad and makes your silver re-tarnish easy. Toothpaste works great and smells good too. Baking Soda, Salt, Warm water and Aluminum works good also.

Here are some links:







This is one of my Favorite.



Do a search for Cleaning Silver on Youtube lots of videos to watch and learn how to clean your sterling silver. To prevent your silver from tarnishing again, you can put it in Lemon Juice for a min.

Hope this helps !!

Keep @ It and HH !!

 

[cillosis]

Go to the jewelry counter in a WalMart and purchase the silver cleaning cloth that they sell. I use one on all the common silver items that I find. Cleans stuff up nicely.

LOL, they don't have a Walmart over here in Japan.

 

[Curious The George]

Go to the jewelry counter in a WalMart and purchase the silver cleaning cloth that they sell. I use one on all the common silver items that I find. Cleans stuff up nicely.

LOL, they don't have a Walmart over here in Japan.

Perhaps not, but I bet they have silver cleaning cloths at jewelry counters or stores.

 

[ringsandthings]

Be glad you don't have Wal-mart in Japan!

 

[TejasDigger]

Tarn-X

I agree with Skypirate, that stuff works great! You can get it at Walgreens.