![]() Please give me some other options other than steel wool, or give me a formula that may include steel wool to clean and maintain heavy brass. I need help cleaning a a ship's porthole I've already used steel wool. Would steel wire damage the object? I was thinking of mounting it on a door in my house, possibly the boy's bedroom ( so's I can keep an eye on them.). Years of lying on the ocean bed has left it very badly stained and although I have tried vinegar and bicarbonate of soda paste, and Brasso, it is very hard to shift the verdigris. My husband, a keen fisherman from the west coast of Ireland, recently found a brass porthole, glass intact. It is too big to just use steel wool, I'll be on that for the next few years. What can I use to clean this up without damaging the glass. The brass is a semi smooth surface and the creases or indents seem to hold some sort of corrosion or something aging process. Aside from some dirt on it, the porthole is in good shape and I am planning on incorporating it into our bathroom. It still has glass in it and I would like to restore the brass. I have recently acquired a ships porthole, 22" in diameter and close to two hundred pounds of solid brass. Several threads were merged please forgive repetitiveness, chronology errors, or perceived disrespect towards earlier responses - they probably weren't there then :-) But if you can do it safely, try a little bit of hydrogen peroxide with vinegar and salt and tell us what happens. But I have not personally found any particular brass polish to be vastly superior to the others, and it would strike me as somewhat illogical that they could all hold their own in the marketplace if one was obviously far better than the others. And some polishes act faster than others while delivering less warmth. I think you could use the Brasso or a similar product with a buffing wheel instead of by hand. Can anyone answer the question about the portholes? I have 13 to do and don't know how to proceed. Is there some way, other than lots and lots of rubbing with Brasso, to remove the tarnish and restore it to its original shine? There are eight portholes on the boat, and it would be a major task to remove them for cleaning, so I'm stuck with trying to clean them in place. I have solid bronze portholes and other solid bronze hardware on my sailboat, and it has tarnished to a nice shade of green. I think it would be worth the bucks to let THEM do the restoration! Even if you got the portholes for free! Go to your area boat show or do a net search to find such a company. I saw such a company at the Boat Show in Newport, RI, this fall and their samples of cleats, props and other marine hardware were magnificent. If you wanted them to be decoratively shiny, then there are marine outfits that specialize in restoring a mirror finish on your marine hardware. After MANY hours of fruitless labor trying to remove the bedding compound, grime and stuff (using scotchbrite, sandpaper, etc.), I decided that the only way to "clean" them would be to sandblast or beadblast them. ![]() They are probably bronze if they are old.
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