[Jewelry making - Article 01018] - Re: [Orchid] Tarnish remover use aluminium foil

[richard hart]

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>     The chemists and more experienced among us will no doubt have more
>     info on things like pearls... but I don't recommend using it for
>     anything that's really "soft" (like amber, opals, woods),
>     permeable (sculpey, bone, fabrics) or heat-sensitive (heat-treated
>     stones, topaz).

    Retail store experience...... we use the aluminum foil, Calgon,
    salt, solution for cleaning sterling silver with every type of stone
    you can think of with absolutely not one piece suffering any
    detectable damage. Hundreds of customers have been given the recipe
    and no reports of damage over the years. If an object can be put in
    water with no damage, this solution would not damage anything I can
    think of. 

    We have cleaned: turquoise, lapis, sponge coral, malachite,
    prehnite, opal, peridot, synthetics, garnet, carved bone, diamond,
    ruby, sapphire, ruby in fushite, ruby in zoisite, iolite, any quartz,
    any agate, any kind of pearl, tourmaline, costume jewelry, amber. 

    And we do not soak anything, just dip and rinse and dry... and
    tarnish gone unless it is so tarnished that it is black and then it
    needs to be buffed.

Richard Hart

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