What an amazing tip. I used Brasso on some old brass weights and they were ok’ish but I tried this and it brought them up like new. Thank you!

@DavidHarperAntiquesTV

5 күн бұрын

That’s fantastic to hear. Than you for letting me know

Blown away at how well this works... Goodbye Brasso

@DavidHarperAntiquesTV

8 ай бұрын

Wonderful to hear

I looked this up because I have a brass of the ship Constitution. It's old, my parents had it longer than they had me, and I'm in my 60s. Wish me luck, can't wait to see her shine! 🌹⚓

@DavidHarperAntiquesTV

Ай бұрын

Good luck!

I tried this and it worked insanely well. I love that it's cheap and natural too. Thank you!

@DavidHarperAntiquesTV

5 ай бұрын

Great to hear! thank you

Okay. I'm an old US Navy veteran. The brass polish that we used for all of the brass on a warship was... Kool Aid. We called it, 'Bug Juice', but we would take an unsweetened package of the stuff- any flavor will do; and just soak the piece in it. The acids in the Kool Aid would remove any tarnish.

@DavidHarperAntiquesTV

Жыл бұрын

Brilliant and actually much easier!

@OriginalNethead

Жыл бұрын

Best use for Kool Aid ever, other than hair dye. You certainly can't drink the stuff!

@lydiahubbell6278

Жыл бұрын

any vinegar-distilled white?

@VintageCarHistory

Жыл бұрын

@@lydiahubbell6278 It's not vinegar- it's citric acid.

@MrNicho06

8 ай бұрын

How long do you soak it?

Wow! Thanks David.

Could you one day do a video about when NOT to polish an item? Seems like people either polish everything or polish nothing for fear of losing patina. I am sure some things should be polished and present the way they were made to look. But when is it bad to polish?

@DavidHarperAntiquesTV

10 ай бұрын

Good idea. I will

I gave this polish recipe a try and wow, it worked extremely well. I used a new 2" angeled paint brush during rinse to help get in the small places..thanks for the video and information 👍🇺🇲

@DavidHarperAntiquesTV

2 ай бұрын

My pleasure and thanks for letting me know

Absolute pleasure to watch, great presentation 😁

@DavidHarperAntiquesTV

6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much, really appreciate it

Thank you!! This worked perfectly.

@DavidHarperAntiquesTV

7 ай бұрын

Love to hear that. Thanks for letting me know.

Met him at Wetherby racecourse when he was filming an episode of Bargain Hunt and came across as a nice decent bloke. Just bought some brass stuff will give this a try. Thanks, David.

@DavidHarperAntiquesTV

Ай бұрын

Thank you. Let us all know if it works!

It WORKS brilliantly!!

@DavidHarperAntiquesTV

12 күн бұрын

Fabulous to hear, thanks for letting me know

Give it a fantastic wallop😂😂😂

Thanks, will try soon

@DavidHarperAntiquesTV

7 ай бұрын

You’ll enjoy it I’m sure !

Just made the paste and your right😊 As I was slapping mine on thick with a circular motion, I could see this easy cheap paste working. It's now just sitting, and to think 🤔our grand & great grand parents methods work better and are much cheaper than the modern poisonous bottles e.g. Brasso $13.50 atm.🙄

@DavidHarperAntiquesTV

7 ай бұрын

Fantastic, thank you for letting me know and you’re right, sometimes we need to take a few steps back and learn from our ancestors!

Yes we have vinegar, salt and flour. Tnx for this tip.

Worked a treat thankyou!!

@DavidHarperAntiquesTV

11 күн бұрын

You're welcome!

Fantastic thank you 🙏

@DavidHarperAntiquesTV

Жыл бұрын

You're very welcome

Thank you for sharing

@DavidHarperAntiquesTV

10 ай бұрын

My pleasure

Hi David. I bought an old brass coal bucket at a bootsale (£3). I was trying to polish it with Brasso but getting nowhere. Your method was amazing. Thank you so much. It got rid of the tarnish apart from a thin layer of pinkish tarnish that came off very easily with Brasso. 🙂

@DavidHarperAntiquesTV

Ай бұрын

Wonderful to hear, thank you for letting me know

David! Dear man, what a trick, down here in Australia, I was told to use good old tomato sauce, any brand! Used it on old brass pieces on an old harness & leads for a a very old horse-drawn milk cart, worked very well too! Thank you very much, all the best!😊

@DavidHarperAntiquesTV

4 ай бұрын

My pleasure, thanks for watching

@agomodern

Ай бұрын

Learned as a kid to use ketchup to polish pennies, so no doubt it would work with brass. Stinks though.

I'd imagine cheap distilled vinegar would work fine, but wine vinegar shows up on camera. Measurements in Metric 30ml flour, 125ml vinegar, 5ml salt. Or thereabouts. I've been known to use good old American Ketchup to do the same thing on pieces I can't toss into the sink to rinse. The ketchup does the same trick and you wipe off with a damp paper towel. It has been known to stain old brass, but it works to get rid of corrosion on jewelry and other bits.

can you do a video about identifying old brass, and also wether this mix effects other materials or wether it’s safe on wood, iron etc etc

Thank you

@DavidHarperAntiquesTV

7 ай бұрын

My pleasure

Very wholesome video

@DavidHarperAntiquesTV

Ай бұрын

Thank you

👏👏👏

Please do share your favourite DIY cleaning solutions or tips for maintaining antiques. Thanks, David

Tq u so much Sir. Hug from Malaysia

@DavidHarperAntiquesTV

Ай бұрын

So nice of you, thank you

I've realized that I've been polishing brass the wrong, way, (Well, only tried it on 2 pieces.) but I still prefer the century and a half year old patina.

This definitely works. For those who use the boiling method - this is just simply less time consuming, because after boiling w/vinegar - you are SCRUBBING. This has the same results. Neither process (boiling or this one) will attack deep tarnish that is pitted. But we needed a brightening/cleaning, not a resurfacing, as my client wants her drawer pulls to still be "old", not brand new. Thanks for this great tip! I definitely prefer this method!

@DavidHarperAntiquesTV

6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for the comment, really appreciate it

We as children in our family in the 1970s had to polish the “brasses” . So now I hate the thought of it . Brasses and flock wallpaper….. eek! 🤣🤣

@DavidHarperAntiquesTV

Жыл бұрын

I remember something similar!!

Can you use apple/wine vinegar, as malt vinegar is impossible to buy here in the Eastern Med?

@DavidHarperAntiquesTV

5 ай бұрын

Yes I’m certain they’d work the same

@sallyjanepreston

5 ай бұрын

That's great news! Thank you.@@DavidHarperAntiquesTV

Any magic recipe for wood without French polishing.

@DavidHarperAntiquesTV

Жыл бұрын

Yes, on the way!

Thanks for the video, David. Are you using table salt or sea salt? Does it make a difference?

@DavidHarperAntiquesTV

4 ай бұрын

Just normal table salt

Thank you so much David. Do you have a recipe for silver?

@VintageCarHistory

Жыл бұрын

Harry Potter may have a recipe for silver- though traditional alchemy tried to make gold...

@DavidHarperAntiquesTV

Жыл бұрын

Yes I do. coming soon!

@OriginalNethead

Жыл бұрын

Not one of those dip thing that take off the patina... please G-d not that. I generally use a sunshine cloth, one of the silver polish pastes (can you find Maas?) or for small jewelry items, a good old thumb. Skin acids take off tarnish, although your fingers get mighty black in the process.

Hello there david. Fantastic video. May i ask would you know a hkmemade cleaner for pewter ? I have a stunning little pewter jewellery box but its darkened so much. Id love to polish it up sparkly shiny again. I would like it clesn for my bedside as a jewellery holder. Thank you so much.

@DavidHarperAntiquesTV

9 ай бұрын

I’ll be making a vid for pewter soon!

@kirtandrews1859

9 ай бұрын

@DavidHarper2020 Oh fantastic I shall watch out for it. Thank you

I just cut a fresh lemon in half and start rubbing the cut side on the brass... it works instantly, you don't have to leave it at all ... just keep rubbing using the lemon half and it will just come clean before your very eyes... I make cubes of lemon juice in ice cube trays as well so I always have lemon juice available in the freezer and I can use the lemon juice frozen cube to rub over my brass table tops to clean them. I have a huge, extensive collection of brass trays, table tops and brass dishes so I need to clean a lot of brass. I always use lemon juice...

@DavidHarperAntiquesTV

3 ай бұрын

Good info thank you

Can i use white vinegar?

This works INSANELY well, i do have a question about copper that remains behind on heavily tarnished brass, does that go away? Or do u have to polish it with something else? Thanks in advance 😊

@DavidHarperAntiquesTV

Ай бұрын

Thank you for watching and trying it out. You could repeat the process, that should help

@aaronhisminiatures6129

Ай бұрын

@@DavidHarperAntiquesTV awesome, thank you :)

Fantastic, would baking soda be a better alternative to the flour tho I'm thinking?

@A6Legit

Ай бұрын

I've seen that online but it doesn't make sense to me. Baking soda neutralizes vinegar. The whole point is to have the acid remove the tarnish.

I’m back! Do you know whether this would work with copper too? And/ or any other metals other than brass

@TheClutchCraft

Ай бұрын

I presume so since brass is an alloy containing copper and zinc

@DavidHarperAntiquesTV

Ай бұрын

Doesn’t work on copper!!

It's like a magic 😮 one question Can we use synthetic white vinegar for it?

@DavidHarperAntiquesTV

10 ай бұрын

best to stick to traditional vinegar

I just turned my brass vase pink, dipping it in citric acid solution for ten minutes only because it was super tarnished. I used 2 tbsp of citric acid in 5 liters of water. Help.

@DavidHarperAntiquesTV

Ай бұрын

Try this method, it hopefully will work?

What kind of vinegar

Will this work on copper

@DavidHarperAntiquesTV

4 ай бұрын

No, it doesn’t work on copper

Omg, your vinegar is brown!

@DavidHarperAntiquesTV

8 ай бұрын

Yes it is!

@A6Legit

Ай бұрын

Even if it's white it'll be brown when youre done 😂

echo chamber audio ... I tried 3 times to hear what the 3rd ingredient is. Still wasn't sure.

@DavidHarperAntiquesTV

3 ай бұрын

Volume up?

@donofon1014

3 ай бұрын

@@DavidHarperAntiquesTV OOOOOoo was I supposed to turn the sound on ?? Is that how one cures "echo chamber audio"?

You waste a lot of water. Just use tamarine. No salt, vinegar and lime. Just tamarine ✅

@DavidHarperAntiquesTV

Күн бұрын

Hardly! This is all about how out ancestors did it…and it works!

The fact that you posted a video where you had to keep dashing the vinegar into a bowl from a pour restricted top and the salt dispenser gave you more trouble than you were able to handle makes me question if I should even listen to what you have to say.

@DavidHarperAntiquesTV

10 ай бұрын

I don’t cook!

@nancym.5508

9 ай бұрын

Perhaps an excuse to push off a "chore"?! I just tried this non-toxic approach on dining room furniture handles and IT WORKS LIKE A CHARM! Thank you David!

@DavidHarperAntiquesTV

9 ай бұрын

My pleasure…thank you @@nancym.5508

@donofon1014

4 ай бұрын

Joe Biden could do your demo ... better.

Can I use white vinegar?

@A6Legit

Ай бұрын

Of course, any acid will work. You can let it soak vinegar but the paste helps for large items. You can use a brass or steel brush, or lightly sand with 220-400+ grit to get bad tarnish off.