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Restoration
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Use
make-up brushes to dust delicate objects. |
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| Coin
collectors never clean coins, however, if you mush,
wash in warm soapy water and dry with soft dry cloth |
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| Use
a chrome cleaner to clean Bakelite objects. |
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| To
remove general grime from old prints, take the dough
from some fresh bread and roll gently over the surface
of the print. The dust and grime will soak
into the bread. |
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| To
clean velour, put a few drops of washing up liquid
into a bucket of water. Soak a piece of muslin
in the water and ring out until almost dry.
Rub backwards and forwards over the velour. |
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| To
disguise cigarette burns on furniture, scrape blackened
area off with sharp knife blade. Fill indentation
with car filler, smooth off until level. Take
an artists brush and powder paint of a similar colour
to the wood and paint in a knot to match others
in the wood. |
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| To
find out if pearls are real or synthetic, rub on
teeth - if they feel gritty they are real, if smooth
they are glass. |
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| To
find out if amber is genuine or plastic - heat a
needle in a flame and prick one of the beads.
If it smells of plastic it is! Amber smells
pleasant. |
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| To
get grime of wooden furniture before polishing use
metal polish rubbed in the same direction as the
wood grain. Finish off with wax polish. |
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| Brass
and copper objects can be cleaned by pouring over
"brown" sauce (such as Daddys or O.K.),
leave overnight and then rinse off. |
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| To
remove an oil stain on wooden furniture, mix some
methylated spirits and talcum powder into a paste.
Spread about 1/8" thick over oily patch - leave
to dry and then scrape paste off. The oil
should have gone. |
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Revitalise cast iron objects by rubbing on olive
oil. |
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| To
remove old, rusted in screws. Clean around
screw head edges, heat screw head with a hot air
gun, then turn screw a little TIGHTER, before undoing. |
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| When
buying antique furniture look inside drawers for
signs of extra holes where original handles and
locks may have been replaced. |
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| Age
marks on porcelain can be removed by soaking overnight
in bably bottle sterilizing liquid. |
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| To
check if jet is real or fake, rub it against the
bottom of a piece of unglazed pottery. If
it leaves a brown mark it is genuine jet. |
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| To
clean gilding, take some egg whites to which a few
drops of bleach have been added. Brush into
gilding with a soft brush. Dry with hairdryer.
Use old toothbrush to brush off the residue. |
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| Cover
scratches in wooden furniture by rubbing with a
walnut kernel. |
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To
remove dents in wood, dampen a piece of flannelette
sheet, place over dent. Take a domestic
iron and press hard over damp cloth.
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