How To Clean Antique Soda Bottles

To start cleaning gently wipe down the surfaces with a soft cloth and your cleaner.

How to clean antique soda bottles. Steves antique bottle cleaning machine is similar to a rock tumbler. I am mainly just looking to remove the surface dirt. Antique glassware vases and bottles may be yellowed or cloudy for any number of reasons such as mineral deposits and residue left behind from liquids once inside them.

Many bottle diggers antique professionals and serious collectors have there own special ways to clean old bottles. Dirt and other stubborn material on the glass surface and inside the bottle. Ceciliag January 17 2012.

Unlike rocks in a tumbler antique bottles and glassware are held in a static position while a tube rotates. Heres what you do. Being underground for a long time exposes the bottles to water which stains them on the inside and outside the chemicals in the water do the staining.

With the antique bottle locked in place for cleaning water and polish gently break down and remove the cloudy sick outside layer of glass. You will have such fun. Here are some general guidelines based on years of experience.

Cleaning Antique Bottles Glass. Soaking in warm room temperature water with dishwashing detergent is a highly effective. I love to decorate with old antique bottles.

Can still make the ACL unstable even on these newer bottles If in doubt than dont clean it. If you dig up an old bottle. Some methods are more successful than others depending on the age of the bottle and whether it is just dirty or if there is staining or a mineral deposit on the glass.