Everyone that has brass knows that it is just a matter of time before the brass becomes tarnished and that the chore of cleaning it is inevitable. There is one easy way to clean your brass. No one wants to spend hours scrubbing and rubbing the brass with paste or home made recipes, containing salt or other abrasive properties, only to get tired and angry that you have scratched your prized possessions.
The first thing you need to do is figure out if the brass is covered with a lacquer coating. If so, the coating will have to be removed in order to remove the tarnish. Obviously, if ANY brass cleaner is applied to a piece of brass that is coated w/ lacquer or has been coated with grease (like gears in a clock), the piece will not come clean and HAS to have the coating removed in order to clean it. Go to your local hardware store to get lacquer thinner to remove a lacquer coating. Use a degreaser to remove any grease coating from brass parts that need to be cleaned. Once the lacquer or grease coating is removed, then it is time to pick a brass cleaner.
I only use one brass cleaner, Brassmate. Brassmate is a reusable liquid brass cleaner that removes tarnish, cleans and polishes all in about 20 seconds. Just submerge the brass or copper piece in Brassmate, move it back and forth for up to 20 seconds, rinse it off and dry it well with a towel. That is all there is to it. Brassmate does not leave residue or build up and is NOT abrasive.
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