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Bob Gagnon plumbing and heating
Bob Gagnon plumbing and heating Member Posts: 1,361
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thanks for your help. the kids thought soldering was the best thing. bob
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  • Bob Gagnon plumbing and heating
    Bob Gagnon plumbing and heating Member Posts: 1,361
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    how do i polish copper

    to keep it from oxidizing. i'm helping the local scout troop to get their plumbing merit badges tonight and we are finishing a copper project that would look great polished. thanks, bob
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  • Warmfoot
    Warmfoot Member Posts: 127
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    We Use

    Brasso. When we polish our mechanical rooms, after the heat has run through them a while, they turn a deep bronze. I must for a trophy mechanical room.

    Ernie Bogue
    Master Hydronics LLC
    PO Box 779
    Keyport, WA 98345
    (360) 394-2049

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  • Bob Gagnon plumbing and heating
    Bob Gagnon plumbing and heating Member Posts: 1,361
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    what type of store

    would i get brasso at? thanks, bob
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  • Warmfoot
    Warmfoot Member Posts: 127
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    We pick

    it up at our local hardware store. I think i have seen it at (sshhh, don't tell anyone I go there)Home Depot.


    Ernie Bogue
    Master Hydronics LLC
    PO Box 779
    Keyport, WA 98345
    (360) 394-2049

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  • ed wallace
    ed wallace Member Posts: 1,613
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    brasso

    a hardware store would have brasso dont think h.d. would

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  • Gary Fereday
    Gary Fereday Member Posts: 427
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    look

    In your local
    grocery store, in the cleaning section for Brasso it is there !
  • adambuild
    adambuild Member Posts: 414
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    copper polish

    I've always used a product called "Twinkle" that is readily available in your local supermarket in the cleaning products aisle. The same company makes a similar product for cleaning silver.
  • Sherwin Swords
    Sherwin Swords Member Posts: 13
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    > it up at our local hardware store. I think i

    > have seen it at (sshhh, don't tell anyone I go

    > there)Home Depot.

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    > Ernie Bogue Master

    > Hydronics LLC PO Box 779 Keyport, WA

    > 98345 (360) 394-2049

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    > it up at our local hardware store. I think i

    > have seen it at (sshhh, don't tell anyone I go

    > there)Home Depot.

    >

    > Ernie Bogue Master

    > Hydronics LLC PO Box 779 Keyport, WA

    > 98345 (360) 394-2049

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  • Sherwin Swords
    Sherwin Swords Member Posts: 13
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    polish copper.

    If not under pressure, and there is not an awful amount, you can cover the copper with 95-5 solder. Requires cleaning, fluxing, heating, etc. gives it a chrome look.
    Red Bear is a good copper polish, can find it at most places that sell kitchen items.
  • Mark J Strawcutter
    Mark J Strawcutter Member Posts: 625
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    How about Tarn-X? (nm)

  • kevin_5
    kevin_5 Member Posts: 308
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    Specialty kitchen stores

    Have products to clean copper tea kettles and the copper clad bottoms of Revere Ware brand pots and pans. I've never used it, but anywhere that sells Revere Ware would have it. After you get it polised, how about a coat of car wax to keep it from oxidizing? Kevin
  • pfitter_10
    pfitter_10 Member Posts: 3
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    I always

    used a fine steel wool then a rag dampened with spar varnish on. Spar is a marine type varnish. My dad had me doing this for him when i was a kid.

    p.
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 0
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    Toilet Bowl Cleaner

    Tidy Bowl, toilet bowl cleaner will take the oxidation off. Wipe on, Wipe off, works great. I have used it to clean pipe and fittings when I didn't want to sand it.
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 0
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    Toilet Bowl Cleaner

    Tidy Bowl, toilet bowl cleaner will take the oxidation off. Wipe on, Wipe off, works great. I have used it to clean pipe and fittings when I didn't want to sand it.
  • Brian (Tankless) Wood
    Brian (Tankless) Wood Member Posts: 222
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    You're a Champ, Bob

    You just showed a group of impressionable minds how the results of a job well done, can make one feel.

    It definitely made ME feel good.

    Well done, beautiful character-building work.

    Did the young'ns help with the project.

    Brian in freezing Swampland.
  • Bob Gagnon plumbing and heating
    Bob Gagnon plumbing and heating Member Posts: 1,361
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    i'm no champ brian

    i'm just trying to help out a little. i mostly wanted to show my nephew the positive things about being a plumber. some lawyers kid told him a few years ago that no one wanted to be a plumber. you are right about kids beng impressionable, one kid told his mother he wants to be a plumber because the first words i said , is that i loved my job. the kids did all the work including threading pipe. bob
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  • HBW
    HBW Member Posts: 33
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    Polishing Copper

    Try plain old ketchup, works great on copper, brass, chrome, stainless, etc.
  • HBW
    HBW Member Posts: 33
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    Polishing Copper

    Try plain old ketchup, works great on copper, brass, chrome, stainless, etc.
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