good morning good morning boys and girls let's talk about brass and polishing and
different ways to clean it and things like that actually different ways not to
clean it but I'm sure some of you boys and girls have a buckle just like this
or have had one and this one I don't think was received under the same
circumstances that I received my buckle under because I see here there's
evidence that it still has some of the coating left that was initially put on
the the brass to keep it from oxidizing when it was new to keep it from
tarnishing before distribution or sale or whatever was going to happen to it
and if I turn it over you can see I can get it right but it says solid brass
made in USA and there's no manufacturer's name on it or trademarked anything like
that but on the belt holding clip there is a number three but I'm guessing is
the designation of the supplier of this belt buckle and also back here you can
see this area over here is more of a dull brass color this area is dark
but you can tell where the protective coating has worn off so that brings us
to the second thing how to tell if it is solid brass or if it is something that's
just brass plating and so there we go
where it won't show or any placing on the item that you're thinking about
cleaning and polishing that appears to be brass I'm going to go where I believe
the coating is and rub it with some 1200 grit sandpaper which is a nice fine paper
and as you can see the shiny brass look goes all the way across so that tells me
that when the coating came off there's still brass under it alright so that's two -
and the third one is on cleaning solutions and polishing solutions
there's a ton of them out there today and I know the you boys and girls have
read the labels and they say polishes chromium or cleans chromium and brass
and stainless steel and aluminium and aluminium and aluminium and just all
kinds of materials but the truth is if you drop a brass plated buckle down
in that sometimes it will take the plating offn and if you drop a solid brass
item in that solution it will turn it a dark or mottled color that takes a lot
of time to get off so anybody has any ideas on good solution for just dropping
an end and cleaning it with no elbow grease let me know and we're talking
about polishing here and my first step on this old buckle will be to take
that 1200 1500 grit a really fine grit of sandpaper and to tell the truth I
would wet sand it and
uses a circular motion so that all of the little tiny abrasive marks but I'll
leave are not running in one direction makes
it easier for the buffing process and
the buffing process is you know do it with a soft cloth whatever you think is good
you know back in the early days there was a product called brasso and I'd
wager that a lot of you boys and girls are familiar with that have probably
used several bottles of it but in the interest of keeping this short and as
we say today full disclosure ok I'm going to spend a little time rubbing
this with the sandpaper and when I get it and bright all over then I'm going to
put a little polishing compound
on my little buffer and if you would like to see my new buffing machine I'll put card up
there you can click on it to see what you think about it then once I get it
buffed I will polish it a wee bit which is wiping it down good with a clean cloth
to get the oil residue that's left from the buffing process off and
probably coat it with some kind of a wax just for a little bit of
protection on my newly applied applied shine it'll come off pretty quick and most
commonly I use a paste just a paste wax like my grandmother used for furniture
and wood floors and things like that well I hope this was a little bit
helpful and if you like it well you know what to do and if you don't well you didn't
we boys and girls have assigned a always keep those cameras rolling and I do hope
to see you next time
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