what can i use to clean detailed brass door finger plates?

Answer 1

Brass is often coated with a thin layer of lacquer to prevent tranishing. The safest way to clean brass treated this way is to simply wipe them with a damp cloth. More extensive cleaning can cause the lacquer to peel.

Clean brass objects that haven't been lacquered the same way. Allow to air-dry, then use a soft cloth to polish the brass to the desired shine. You will occasionally need to remove the tarnish from unlacquered brass objects with a commerical brass cleaner. To prevent future tarnishing, shine the object to the degree of luster you prefer and spray or brush on two coats of a transparent metal lacquer.

Scrub engraved brass, whether it's lacquered or not, with a soft toothbrush dipped in household detergent. If old polish has built up on patterned brass, rub the affected area gently with a solution of mild detergent and water. Use a soft toothbrush to get polish out of crevices in the detailing.

If you are cleaning brass that is attached to another surface, make a template by cutting the shape of the brass object out of a piece of cardboard. Hold the template over the brass area so you can clean or lacquer it without damaging the surrounding surfaces.

Answer 2

Brass Finger Plates

Answer 3

Brasso cleans and polishes brass items. If you are looking for just some common household cleaner/polisher, Tobasco sauce works pretty good.

Answer 4

I have started using a microfibre cloth from tesco on all my brasses. For all the awkward bits I wrap the cloth round a pair of tweezers. Toothpaste gets the really black bits off!

Answer 5

Brasso and a clean lint free cloth OR you can do what I did - go and buy a mini drill with all the small polishing mops and use them with a little brasso

Answer 6

tomato ketchup and an old toothbrush.

Its not like brasso where it leaves everything black and you need to spend ages buffing the brass work.

With the ketchup, you rub it on...give a wee scrub with the toothbrush...so that you clean into all the crevices...and then wipe it off.

Easy as pie!

Answer 7

Use BRASSO, available in supermarkets. The army has used it fir brass for years and years,

Answer 8

try a toothbrush and brasso, clean the brasso off with a clean duster wrapped around the toothbrush, in really akward spots use a cotton bud.

Answer 9

Sheila Shine! It is an aresol cleaner for ALL types of metal and is amazing. It is used widely in the professional cleaning market but Im sure you can locate is online

Answer 10

If they are very tarnished. Soak in shallow amonia, rinse and polish with brasso. You can buy amonia from hardware stores, make sure you soak evenly and do it outside!