How do you make and old brass lamp look new again.?

Question

I have a pile of brass lamps that look old and tarnished. I wish to make them look new again. Can they simply be spray painted?

Answer 1

Ok, firstly Brass lamps are NOT spray painted.

Next are they tarnished and have they been lacquered before?

If they have you need to remove all the old lacquer before proceeding, use a proprietary stripper.

Then you can buy a brass cleaning dip, it comes in a sachet and you mix it in a bucket with warm water, then dip the lamps in that, this will remove the tarnish and verdigris.

One cleaned then polish them with 'Brasso' when they shine enough - you have 2 options -
..1) leave them and polish them often
..2) lacquer them carefully either with a brush or better still a spray, if you warm them up first the lacquer will dry quicker and less chance of runs, also will stop dust sticking to them as they dry.

To clean lacquered lamps, just use a damp cloth with a small amount of washing up liquid then buff dry with a soft yellow polishing cloth - NOTHING HARSH - not scourer nor cleaner.

Answer 2

Get some brass cleaner. Or try this homemade solution, make a mixture of ketchup and salt or vinegar and salt paste and rub it onto the brass, rinse and dry.

Answer 3

The method you choose depends on whether the items are solid brass without lacquer, solid brass with a lacquer coating, or brass plated. I found this website with complete instructions:

http://www.doityourself.com/stry/brass

Answer 4

use brass cleaner you can get it at any hobby shop or
any store. If not use toothpaste dose the same thing just rub it on then rub it off

Answer 5

there a bunch of solutions for your problem you can use never dull or a cleaner called ZIMS (you can buy it at any music store it a cleaner for cymbals) which costs about 10 dollars. plus there is a product called
brass-o and works great as well. good luck.

Answer 6

Lemon juice and salt. Add elbow grease.

Spray paint brass??? Sure if you want, but it won't be "like new"

Answer 7

Never Dull it is miraculous. My son first encoutered it in the Navy

http://www.nevrdull.com/index.htm

Answer 8

try polishing them