Recycled Aluminum Pans

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Here's a good use for aluminum pans, that maybe no one knows... you can use

them to remove tarnish from silver! It has to be aluminum, as there's a

chemical reaction involved. You put your silver in the pan, sprinkle with some

baking soda, and then pour boiling water over it, watch it bubble, and voila,

the tarnish disappears!

 

I'm always having to take apart old shopworn jewelry so I can reuse the

components, and shopworn usually means tarnished silver. This gets the silver

beads looking like new. I use it for rings and pins too as long as any stones

in them are glassy. You don't want to put porous stones in this, or they

could be damaged... for example, no turquoise, coral, pearls. But quartz type

stones are okay. And, of course, it works on silverware in the kitchen.

Really stubborn ancient tarnish might need two or three treatments.

 

I'm not caught up yet, but need to go do some different things till

evening... you all have a nice day!

 

 

Love & Light, Barbara

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That is great to know. I will have to remember this.

Thanks Barbara!

Judy

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BarbaraJean1732

Sunday, January 20, 2008 11:05 AM

Recycled Aluminum Pans

 

 

 

Here's a good use for aluminum pans, that maybe no one knows... you can use

them to remove tarnish from silver! It has to be aluminum, as there's a

chemical reaction involved. You put your silver in the pan, sprinkle with some

baking soda, and then pour boiling water over it, watch it bubble, and voila,

the tarnish disappears!

 

I'm always having to take apart old shopworn jewelry so I can reuse the

components, and shopworn usually means tarnished silver. This gets the silver

beads looking like new. I use it for rings and pins too as long as any stones

in them are glassy. You don't want to put porous stones in this, or they

could be damaged... for example, no turquoise, coral, pearls. But quartz type

stones are okay. And, of course, it works on silverware in the kitchen.

Really stubborn ancient tarnish might need two or three treatments.

 

I'm not caught up yet, but need to go do some different things till

evening... you all have a nice day!

 

Love & Light, Barbara

BarbaraJean1732

 

**************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape.

http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489

 

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My understanding is that you don't want to do this very often because

it removes quite a bit of the silver. I recall there was a great

deal of use of this back in the 1950's and 60's and it fell out of

favor because it is very hard on silver. It also removes all of the

shading on sterling silver flatware which may not be what you want.

 

Kathleen

 

Here's a good use for aluminum pans, that maybe no one knows... you

can use them to remove tarnish from silver! It has to be aluminum,

as there's a chemical reaction involved. You put your silver in the

pan, sprinkle with some baking soda, and then pour boiling water

over it, watch it bubble, and voila, the tarnish disappears!

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I'm always having to take apart old shopworn jewelry so I can reuse

the components, and shopworn usually means tarnished silver. This

gets the silver beads looking like new. I use it for rings and pins

too as long as any stones in them are glassy. You don't want to put

porous stones in this, or they could be damaged... for example, no

turquoise, coral, pearls. But quartz type stones are okay. And, of

course, it works on silverware in the kitchen. Really stubborn

ancient tarnish might need two or three treatments.