How To Clean Antique Glass Bottles
If the mouth of the glass was large enough I washed the inside with a rag bottle brush too.
How to clean antique glass bottles. For bottles that just need a bit of freshening up use my easy homemade cleaning tablets tablets. In this easy Instructable I will show you how to clean the mud and crud off of antique and not so antique jars. BBs sometimes used to.
70 water 30 acid. Some people get grossed out at the thought of reusing glass bottles but dont worry. In the beginning I started bottle collecting in the s and like many other diggers continually.
Rinsing first helps remove the loosest debris and helps keep the water in the sink or plastic tub cleaner. I use about a cup of bicarb for about three gallons of water and stir it with a stick. How To Clean An Old Glass Bottle Pdf.
Half-Micron Aluminum is a soft polish around a 5. When done if the inside of the bottle appears to be a little hazy rerun with P30 for a few days. While chemicals like muriatic acid dangerousLime AwayEfferdent or Dexterscan provide some help in removing this water stain these chemicals usually do not work tocompletely remove the stain.
Bottles and Extras November-December 15 Glass Bottle Cleaning By Russ Parkin Introduction This article originally appeared in Issue 28 of the Antique Bottle Collector. No fancy chemicals or detergents and barely any elbow grease. I use three buckets for my acid cleaning.
Dont Do ThisCoarse steel wool and many household synthetic scouring pads can scratch glass. The second bucket has water with dissolved sodium bicarb baking soda. Used as an inside cutter only.