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My Metal Polish
The best way to keep metal shiny is to polish
it, but an abrasive polish will slowly over time wear away the metal
until there is nothing left. I did a lot of polishing with my
various hobbies like instrument
restoration
and ring
making, and found the chemical
polishes did not keep the metals shiny long enough under heavy
use. So to combat this problem, I created my own polish. It
started out I had a couple of bottles of half empty polish, and mixed
them together to see if the polish would still work. It totally
didn't, but not wanting to waste it, I kept the bottle anyway, and
eventually found putting some other ingredients in the polish made it
work better, even superior to it's constituent store-bought
counterparts. My
super polish which I have unofficially named "Rub n' Glow", will keep
metal shiny, if
you simply rub it again after it has started to turn colors and then
wipe it with your shirt. I am not sure why it does this, but I
believe it is because of my secret ingredient, which I shall not
disclose to you. The main ingredients are as follows:
Turtle Wax, Turtle Wax Extreme Car Wash and Wax, ammonia, TarnX,
turpentine, bees wax, acetone, lacquer thinner, vinegar, salt, Wright's
silver polish, Wright's brass polish, 3-M Tarnishield, Joy
dish soap, Mop n' Glow floor cleaner, Turtle Wax Chrome Polish, Armor
All, and of course my secret ingredient. The proportions of these
ingredients are of course proprietary, and the only thing I can tell
you about my secret ingredient is you can obtain it for free in almost
any forest. I am working on a version of my polish that uses no
patented ingredients (capitolized) and the only reason I havn't made it
yet is I have a few quarts of the old stuff at home, and I don't want
to waste it (I don't use it very fast because it works so well, so I am
always looking for ways to get rid of it). Also my polish is
dangerous,
there is a lot of truely nasty chemicals in there and it stains
everything it touches purplish brown (except metal of course! even my
fingers turn purple for a few days, so I wear latex gloves when using
it, and it stains the gloves instead of my digits). Because of
the turpentine, it
smells like a pine forest, but it would be incredibly bad to use it
without ventilation, It could kill you if you deliberately concentrated
and inhaled the fumes (which is the case with lots of chemicals,
including
several of my ingredients). As an alternative, I have created a
special
watered down version of it and soaked it into rages which can be used
for maintainance or touch-up work, which do not poison you! Also,
I tried to create a shoe polish, which of course didn't work, but when
my solid quasi shoe polish is used before the rag version, the finish
will gleam for 6 months on brass (which corrodes in one night
regularly), and wiping it with your shirt makes it good for another
3. All of the best inventions were made by accident!
For my "Rub n' glow 2" I will use bees wax,
turpentine, carnauba
wax, traces of paraffin wax, calcium carbonate precipitate, traces of
petrolium jelly, traces of
mineral oil, denatured alcohol, soap, detergent, (vinegar, salt, lemon
juice (citric acid), for copper/brass) (aluminum sulfate, sodium
bicarbonate for silver), acidified thio-urea, lacquer thinner, HCl,
dissolved silicone plastic, and of course my secret ingredient.
None
of these are patented ingredients.