Cleaning stove.

Sorry if this is a double post, but i had a flick through and couldnt find the subject and couldnt work out how to search,

but im in the process of cleanning up some stoves that i gainned, they have not been cleanned in years, what is the best way to go about it?

I have autosol metal polish but it seems to take an awefull long time to get anywhere.

Any suggestions welcome

Cheers

 

hi Toppa
try this internal link

Bill

 

Hello toppa what i do and a lot of others do is dissmantle the stove and soak the parts in vinegar for 10 mins or citric acid and then with verry fine steel wool or a scour lightly scrub but there are dissadvantes it does bring out the copper colour. then use a brass polish to finish.I have resently purchased a buffing wheel and buffing wax from www.chronos.ltd.uk it comes with 2 cotton polishing discs and 2 sticks of buffing wax for two stages of polishing and a arbour (shaft) to fit in a chuck of a drill and this brings it to a mirror finish and then i polish with brass polish. But you only want to use it once on each stove for obvious reasons i have redone a couple of stoves with it this method has its advantages as well as disadvantages like all polishing good luck

 

Thanks guys, i have them stripped down, well all but the complete working one, im not after a pristine finish as im a believer in using the stoves for what they were made

Although one had a leg come off it, the leg is in the box, so that one may be designated as ornament unless anyone know how to reattach the legs?

Cheers

 

Cleaning stoves, try this link .(same link as in Bill's post)

Re-soldering legs, try this link .

 

excellant link regarding the repairs to the leg, i have a very good gas soldering iron with all attachments, so that will work a treat


Cheers

 

On a brass tank stove?



Old toothbrush or nylon pot scrub/scourer.

 

Recently acquired a 123 type stove complete with top, bottom and leather strap, from the local tender centre. The darkest bit of brassware I have ever seen. Naturally Brasso barely touched it, but with Brasso on the cleaning cloth and then dipped into some ash from a wood fire, the stove was soon revealed as a Juwel 33.

Fr Laurence

 

Yep - 0000 grade furniture restorers stuff - not your brillo pad! I use it frequently.

 

thats the grade ross used carefully in the same direction you cant go wrong in fact some cases if you want a real mirror finish to the brass and its in such a bad state its one of the best ways