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19th April 2013, 02:35 AM #1
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Heinz Ketchup
Found it works great for cleaning and polish brass casings.
It must be all the acid in the ketchup?
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19th April 2013, 03:59 AM #2
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Vinegar (acetic acid) and citric acid. ;-)
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19th April 2013, 04:05 AM #3
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I use Brasso, but the taste is horrible on frites
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19th April 2013, 09:03 AM #4
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Why?
Les
A good result from an an unusual product.
I can't for the life of me work out why you tried ketchup as a polish, but can see a few pantries being raided by our experimenters.
Peanut butter probably wouldn't work, but Vegemite might be worth a go!
Good luck with all your finishes.
Alan...
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19th April 2013, 11:00 AM #5
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Good question. But it certainly seems to produce a good result
Originally Posted by Uncle Al
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19th April 2013, 12:14 PM #6
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Being a sloppy eater and stuffing your face with chips at the lathe is my guess. A little spilled sauce goes a long way Originally Posted by Uncle Al
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19th April 2013, 01:08 PM #7
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I sit here and wonder with amazement at how you came up with that, but I am going to try it anyways.
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19th April 2013, 02:54 PM #8
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Why not!! Originally Posted by Uncle Al
At last weekend's gun show I had an old professional knife maker at the table beside me and he told me that ketchup cleans and polishes brass, so why not try it.
Les
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19th April 2013, 05:20 PM #9
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Liquid polish
Actually, Coke should work pretty well on brass.
I accidentally bought Coke Zero "Cherry flavour" yesterday, and it tastes terrible. It is only suitable as a polish. It tastes a bit like either aniseed or sarsaparilla. The label looks like the standard Zero label with some extra text which I assumed was some sort of competition.
It is not a competition, and no other soft drink maker would bother to go into competition with this drink, as there would never be any repeat sales.
I would be interested if anyone does like the taste of it.
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19th April 2013, 06:27 PM #10
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Have to agree with you Alan, you also have Dr Pepper, it tastes just as bad. The original coke was a good flux for soldering Originally Posted by Uncle Al
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20th April 2013, 11:12 AM #11
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Peanut butter crunchy works well to clean the black trim on cars - also tin foil is good on chrome .... Just saying Originally Posted by Uncle Al
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