[Jewelry making - Article 00657] - Re: [Orchid] Copper plated silver

[Tony]

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    To remove the copper plating from silver due to iron contaminated
    pickle. 

    Empty and clean out your pot and make up a new batch of pickle and
    heat it. Drop in the item and add a little hydrogen peroxide. The
    peroxide degrades very quickly to water and oxygen (it's monovalent
    oxygen in solution to begin with which is what will turn the copper
    into copper oxides that are easily dissolved in the pickle)and the
    pickle is immediately reusable in the normal way. 

Tony Konrath
Gold and Stone
http://www.goldandstone.com

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