Florida Brown Silver Tarnish

Jewelry Discussion
21 
I don't have as much of a tarnishing problem in the motion cases
that I have that use flourescent lighting - only in the halogen lit
cases.

If that’s the case, no pun intended, I might suspect the heat from
the halogens are possibly causing something in the case to release a
gas that’s actually doing the tarnishing.

22 
Am going to look for Speed Brite Cleaner...sounds like an easy
solution...

Just a reminder to those who own an anodizer (power suply for
coloring titanium & niobium, I mean)-- you can reverse the
terminals, put the cathode on the positive terminal, put it in a
dish of cleaner, attach the negative to the silver piece, set the
voltage to 10-12v, immerse it in the cleaner & turn on the power–
you have an ionic cleaner. As our British friends say, works a
treat!

I have read (in the archives?) you can rig one out of a wall wart,
as well. The voltage is right. I haven’t done it, as I have my
trusty anodizer.

Noel

23 
If that's the case, no pun intended, I might suspect the heat from
the halogens are possibly causing something in the case to release
a gas that's actually doing the tarnishing.

Both the heat and UV from halogen lighting accelerate tarnish
effects and can both lead to off-gassing from display materials that
will tarnish the work

James Binnion
@James_Binnion
James Binnion Metal Arts

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