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Question about chemically treated polishing rags

Author: Joel Clifton
Date: 2005-03-10 02:23

I recently got a chemically treated polishing rag from WWBW. I was cleaning my silver-plated flute, and it did make it amazingly bright and shiny, but something dark also rubbed onto the rag. I thought it might be just oil and dirt, but I wiped a pad that was already polished, and more dark stuff came off. Is it rubbing off the plating?

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Re: Question about chemically treated polishing rags

Author: pewd
Date: 2005-03-10 04:02

the black stuff is silver oxide.
you are removing a tiny amount of oxidixied plating every time.
try some of those anti tarnish strips inside your case to reduce the number of times you need to polish the instrument.

- Paul Dods
Dallas, Texas

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