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In Reply to: how do you clean your old vintage tube pins? posted by edisonwu on February 23, 2007 at 18:15:03:
You can try scrubbing with a STIFF nylon toothbrush dipped in lemon juice. Lemon juice contains citric and ascorbic acids. Neither acid is strong enough to quickly attack metal, but oxides are attacked. Also, citrate is a good complexing agent, which helps the dissolving action, and ascorbate is vitamin C, which reduces ferric ions (rust) to the ferrous state.After the lemon juice scrub, rinse with water and wipe dry using a cloth moistened with anhydrous isopropanol. Additional treatment with either DeOxit or high temperature ProGold is OK.
Eli D.
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Follow Ups
- Re: how do you clean your old vintage tube pins? - Eli Duttman 08:13:39 02/24/07 (7)
- Lemon Juice Rules! - Mssquared 19:10:46 02/24/07 (5)
- 48 hours is a long time - nightdoggy 20:19:05 02/24/07 (4)
- Re: 48 hours is a long time - Jim McShane 16:36:35 02/25/07 (3)
- I never used Pro Gold on tube pins - nightdoggy 18:52:04 02/25/07 (2)
- Re: I never used Pro Gold on tube pins - Jim McShane 06:18:33 02/26/07 (0)
- Re: Forget Mobil 1... - Steve O 19:13:33 02/25/07 (0)
- Good summary (nt) - Metralla 09:13:26 02/24/07 (0)
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