[Jewelry making - Article 00837] - [Orchid] Argentium Sterling Contamination

[Marya DeBlasi]

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Trevor

    I hope you don't mind that I am sending this e-mail to yourself & to
    our friends on Orchid simultaneously. 

    I asked you several weeks ago about what kind of provisions need to
    be made in a shared studio so that Argentium Sterling is not
    contaminated. You told me that the only thing I really must concern
    myself with is a separate set of buffing wheels. Well, we haven't
    had a chance to make a studio order yet so I am still making due
    with the buffs that every one uses, even the beginners still working
    in Cu and Brass. 

    Yesterday I had this thought: When someone accidentally contaminates
    the pickle with steel and copper plates their silver, they are
    advised to make up a batch of "super pickle" (Pickle w/ H2O2). That
    usually strips off all the pink. If I were to take a fully polished
    piece in Argentium Sterling, and put it for a few minutes in the
    Super Pickle would I be preventing later oxidation from residual
    copper? Would I destroy my polish? (I guess I've never had any
    reason to put a pristine polished piece in the pickle). 

    Thank you for considering this problem---and it is already a
    problem, as I have begun to polish my first Argentium Spoon. 

Marya

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