Re: ATM RE: Silvering.

["Bill Thornley" <bill_thornley@hotmail.com>]

G'Day All

I was wondering if anyone who had silvered their mirror had tried to remove 
the tarnish with that old time remedy of Washing Soda (Sodium Carbonate - 
Na2 Co3).
Years ago I downloaded a recipe for silvering a mirror from a local bulletin 
board (that's how long ago that was - pre internet).
My wife had just bought a kit from the local agricultural show (county fair) 
that consisted basically of an aluminium plate and a box of washing soda. 
The idea was, you placed the al plate in a plastic dish added hot water and 
washing soda. Gave it a stir and them dipped your household silver and 
jewelry onto the al plate and the tarnish was removed after a couple of 
minutes of furious bubbling. This thing actually worked. The silver was 
restored to it's shiny glory without touching the silver surface. The silver 
must be in contact with the aluminium though.
I immediately thought this was an ideal way of maintaining a perfect silver 
surface on a mirror without having to touch the surface.
That's as far as the project got. But with all the recent talk about 
silvering again, this could be an easy way of keeping a silvered surface 
tarnish free!
We have since learned we didn't have to pay $20 for the kit. You can buy 
washing soda from the laundry section of any supermarket for cents and 
aluminium foil works just as good as the aluminum plate.

Does anybody see any problems using this method?

Regards,

Bill Thornley


Bob wrote,

>If you really want to know how long it will take to get the tarnish 
> >toreally get going, take a nice silver spoon and give it a good >polish 
>and let it sit around.  If it's a plated spoon, it will >tarnish about as 
>fast as the mirror will.  If it's sterling, it will >probably take about 3 
>times or so that the pure silver will take.

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