Quick Brass Polishing Trick!

Let me show you a really cool trick to save a bunch of time when you're polishing up old, tarnished brass. It works great on old, grungy, furniture handles, etc. Just be careful not to go too crazy using it!

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[EnergyFabricator]

Try Scotchbrite & Brasso together. It will clean the brass almost instantly and will not leave scratches or take off too much material. Then polish with a clean cloth. Done!

[ΛιάναΚοϊδάκη]

Absolutely amazing!I spent so much time watching nonsense about cleaning brass with ketchup, salt baking soda, lemon, vinegar, ...It is all about cleaning brass that hasn;t been cleaned for a little while.I cleaned the brass ornaments of a piece of furniture left uncleaned for 50 years in a VERY short time with your tip.Thank you, thank you!!

[Dana-mlsy]

I liked the black paint!. It gave a cool look to the handles. Cleaning would have been enough!

[sunniedee]

I always find your videos educating! I’m glad I found you! But I wanted to tell you that I just bought an antique sideboard with gorgeous intricate brass hardware. I used a polishing kit for my Dremel and the results were instantaneous! So gorgeous! I got my Dremel for Christmas many years ago and my husband bought a ton of accessories for it. I never used the polishing kit and almost forgot about it lol! I have a ganglion cyst that is basically strangling my radial artery and nerve. When ever I try to do anything for extended periods of time, my hand goes completely numb. So I’m glad I remembered my good old Dremel!!

[jazzman]

After what was done in this video, continue with finer, wet sanding then dialux compounds and a final soft buffing up to a smooth, high mirror shine. Always use separate polishing pads for compounds/polishes to avoid cross contamination and scratching the work with previous abrasives, washing the work between compounds.
You can thank me later.

[jynx-vuzc]

$30 bench top grinder with a buffing wheel and green rouge, cleans all metals to brilliant shine, and won't scratch like a sanding block

[LBCAndrew]

You'd have much better results by not using the sanding block, but instead you should use a light gray scotch-brite pad. I takes much more time, elbow grease, and money in materials to go from 320 grit (not sure what your pad is but thats typically "fine") straight to 6, 000 grit (brasso) in order to achieve a good scratch free finish. Scotch brite pads work great wet or dry, are cheaper than those sanding sponges and come in many grades of roughness to remove the previous grit's scratch marks. Light gray is about 800 grit, white is 1200-1500 grit, and maroon is roughly 320 grit. They also leave a much more desirable scratch pattern which is easier to remove with a finer pad.

Even faster would be to clean the brass using a scotch brite pad using dipped in a salt and vinegar solution. You can even soak it in the salt/vinegar but just not for too long because it can turn the brass pink.

And if you want to then antique the brass, put it in s sealed container on a rack or hanging after dipping them in salt water, and in the bottom of the container put a cup full of ammonia. Seal, and come back in a few hours. you'll be amazed. LIghtly buff for a beautiful finish.

[BLISSmodern]

we have been restoring midcentury furniture professionally for years. NEVER clean brass like that! it's all scratched now.

[barbaragibson]

HOLY COW did this WORK FOR thank you thank you thank you! Had a HUGE brass coffee table that had been neglected. Made it look like new.

[jcrefasi]

Wetting the sanding sponge and using it with dish soap will help reduce scratching and remove oxidation with less effort

[chjofar]

I hit subscribe before you even got to the opening cartoon. Instant recognition of a genuine honest guy. Looking forward to catching other videos of yours. I'll be trying this brass advice today

[lorencarey]

Dremel with a brass wire wheel and polishing wheel/polishing compound

[jacobchelraj]

I have a 12-year-old brass ceiling fan that turned almost black. I applied brasso with an old tooth brush and rubbed vigorously in circles, working at a small area, intermittently buffing with a clean cloth. I needed to wash the brush intermittently as well because the bristles turn black due to oxidization. The process takes quite some time - took almost 5 hours. The fan now looks just like new.

[SuperCrazyRandumness]

Omg!!! You are a GENIUS!!! Literally just made my life 😎

[ytubepuppy]

I used to use Brasso on (a) a 22" Zildjian thick ride (b) a 20" Zildjian medium ride (c) an 18" Zildjian medium ride (d) two Zildjian 16" thin ride, and (e) two Zildjian 14" high hat cymbals. Over the course of several years I was able to have mirror finish cymbals with my drum set. I used a LOT of different polishes, etc but NOTHING ever beat Brasso and a soft cloth then a buffing attachment on a drill...no scratches.

[charliemckay]

Stropping with cloth backed fine sandpaper will clean up very quickly. Super fast brass cleaning round parts with a screw hole is to put a piece of threaded rod in the screw hole and mount it in a drill.

[ThePainterr]

White wine vinegar and salt is extremely effective in restoring shine. Simply soak the brass in a dish with a mixture of both ingredients. Take brass out and wash in hot soapy water with sponge.

[MrGlorybe]

Those leg caps would buff super easy on a lathe or drill press. It is super fast and can give you a mirror shine.

[bassgitter]

Have you considered a fine grit scotch brite impregnated with the brass out? It will most likely give you the same speed but leave no micro scratches and polish at the same time

[spamaccount]

I will say that for clean the slides on brass instruments where the diameter matters easily to the .01 mm brasso tends to take off a lot of material in my experience