What Happened My Bar?!

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SilverPete said:
PhilDaSilva said:
Silver sulphide is definitely the black stuff, or 'The Black Death' as its also known when it builds up a large thick crust on silver antiques that haven't been stored correctly, sulfur or 'Sulphur' (english/french spelling) is present in the air in various gaseous forms, am guessing your shoe had a plastic insole which can release gas, could be the glue or leather tanning chemicals too. Special plastics are often used to house antiques so any gas they may release does not harm the valuable contents, acid free paper is another for documents of historical value.
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Would you happen to know what sort of cloth is safest for wrapping silver in? I had a small project to create a small bag of silver.
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No idea offhand, though I would definitely stay away from anything that is dyed as the dye may tarnish the coins which I am guessing this is what happened to another poster in this thread with the velvet that tarnished his coins. The problem is no matter which material you use there are drawbacks, natural materials will eventually rot or go mouldy in a damp environment or may have been bleached, synthetic may release gasses like many plastics do.
 
Naphthalene Man said:
House said:
Lunarowl said:
Is that leather shoe for sale?
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Actually it is. $70 for the right shoe* and $8 for postage.

*right shoe may be left shoe.
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I don't think he wants the shoe that's left, he wants the correct one.
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Ye the one with the bar in it :lol:

Time for its cloudy ammonia bath and baking soda rub down. Such fun.
 
PhilDaSilva said:
SilverPete said:
PhilDaSilva said:
Silver sulphide is definitely the black stuff, or 'The Black Death' as its also known when it builds up a large thick crust on silver antiques that haven't been stored correctly, sulfur or 'Sulphur' (english/french spelling) is present in the air in various gaseous forms, am guessing your shoe had a plastic insole which can release gas, could be the glue or leather tanning chemicals too. Special plastics are often used to house antiques so any gas they may release does not harm the valuable contents, acid free paper is another for documents of historical value.
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Would you happen to know what sort of cloth is safest for wrapping silver in? I had a small project to create a small bag of silver.
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No idea offhand, though I would definitely stay away from anything that is dyed as the dye may tarnish the coins which I am guessing this is what happened to another poster in this thread with the velvet that tarnished his coins. The problem is no matter which material you use there are drawbacks, natural materials will eventually rot or go mouldy in a damp environment or may have been bleached, synthetic may release gasses like many plastics do.
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All cloth or paper/cardboard will eventually leach chemicals and tarnish silver.
Use food safe plastic (eg, zip lock sandwich bags, or vacuum sealer bags). This plastic does not contain PVC, and will not tarnish silver. :)
 
wrcmad said:
PhilDaSilva said:
SilverPete said:
Would you happen to know what sort of cloth is safest for wrapping silver in? I had a small project to create a small bag of silver.
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No idea offhand, though I would definitely stay away from anything that is dyed as the dye may tarnish the coins which I am guessing this is what happened to another poster in this thread with the velvet that tarnished his coins. The problem is no matter which material you use there are drawbacks, natural materials will eventually rot or go mouldy in a damp environment or may have been bleached, synthetic may release gasses like many plastics do.
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All cloth or paper/cardboard will eventually leach chemicals and tarnish silver.
Use food safe plastic (eg, zip lock sandwich bags, or vacuum sealer bags). This plastic does not contain PVC, and will not tarnish silver. :)
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How about leather? Maybe I can create a small bag lined internally with food safe plastic as you recommended. This is only for some small bits of silver, and actually, I don't mind some aged-looking stuff so maybe it wouldn't be too bad?
 
AGmagic said:
It's not AU that's why. Logical sense dude.
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It's not a whole load of other metals either but logical sense doesn't explain how it went from brand new to the way it is now in 8 months. All of my other bars are perfect even though some were in the same box.
 
House said:
AGmagic said:
It's not AU that's why. Logical sense dude.
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It's not a whole load of other metals either but logical sense doesn't explain how it went from brand new to the way it is now in 8 months. All of my other bars are perfect even though some were in the same box.
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We'll if you mentioned that in the OP that would have made logical sense . Regardless it would have tarnished anyways.
Maybe the location in the box was exposed to a certain heat/humidity which sped up the tarnishing.
 
Well whaddya know, the bar no longer looks like it spent the weekend in a brothel :)

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His suggestion of cloudy ammonia and baking powder (same method used for cleaning round 50's) did the magic. Soaked overnight followed a sensual scrub.

Asked at Woolies where the cloudy ammonia was kept and the foreign worker brought over to the 'colds and flu' section... obviously thought I said pneumonia!
 
House said:
His suggestion of cloudy ammonia and baking powder (same method used for cleaning round 50's) did the magic. Soaked overnight followed a sensual scrub.

Asked at Woolies where the cloudy ammonia was kept and the foreign worker brought over to the 'colds and flu' section... obviously thought I said pneumonia!
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I spread the word around...theres a nasty toe fungus...its next to the medication...
 
Amazing.

Care to share recipe?

It will be interesting to monitor your bar in the next weeks and months :;
 
Amazing.

Care to share recipe?

It will be interesting to monitor your bar in the next weeks and months :;[/quote]

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Brilliant! But a couple of questions.....

Will this method remove milk spots?

Why does jewellery cleaner leave the coins susceptible to further tarnishing?

Thanks! :)
 
Clawhammer said:
My method is quicker :P

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So????!!!??? What is the liquid? And is that tin foil connected to a mains outlet or something? lol :p (I have only ever used tinfoil for cooking chickens and making hats! lol :lol:
 
Hot water with a few tsps of bicarb.

Only good for tarnish... won't clean shoe-goo off :lol:
 
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