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Had some free time to clean up some old silver. 1 is probably my nicest silver ring so far. 990 with a bunch of, probably fake, stones. Looks good though and worth some bucks new in the store. Not a brand name
The 1 ring with the green stone had me pumped when I saw it. But wasn't to be. Have about 3 more Lord of the Rings I have to clean up... have a dozen or so bs ones, and a few silver.
Bangles are all 999.
Total weight a little over 1/2lb
Probably end up selling in the classifieds soon to finance a new coil:D
 

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I have had decent success selling silver rings on Ebay. Good luck!
 
goldpaninut said:
How do you clean these rings?
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for really blackened ones... electrolysis, silver polish, 2000 grade sandpaper, followed by silver polish again. Takes about 5 minutes a ring. Some are too pitted to be cleaned well. Sandpaper glued to a drill bit, make sure ring is wet
 
Nice clean up job on the silver Steve. I ordered some polishing shot to tumble my silver with. Going to see if that speeds things up.
 
18kRonin said:
Nice clean up job on the silver Steve. I ordered some polishing shot to tumble my silver with. Going to see if that speeds things up.
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I saw a video where someone used what (I think) is called Jewelers Mix to put in their tumbler. It is a mixture of shot with small irregular pieces of steel as well. Seemed to do a really good job of getting into the small crevices.

I don't have a tumbler (yet) but it seems like a good solution to try.
 
18kRonin said:
Nice clean up job on the silver Steve. I ordered some polishing shot to tumble my silver with. Going to see if that speeds things up.
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I tried the tumbler before. Destroyed about 30 rings. I just zap it for a minute. Polish for a minute, sandpaper if necessary and polish again.
only thing I put in a tumbler now are toasted coins for the subway machine
 
twcook said:
I saw a video where someone used what (I think) is called Jewelers Mix to put in their tumbler. It is a mixture of shot with small irregular pieces of steel as well. Seemed to do a really good job of getting into the small crevices.

I don't have a tumbler (yet) but it seems like a good solution to try.
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Yeah that's the stuff TW



Steve said:
I tried the tumbler before. Destroyed about 30 rings. I just zap it for a minute. Polish for a minute, sandpaper if necessary and polish again.
only thing I put in a tumbler now are toasted coins for the subway machine
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I tumble most of my crusty silver with nickel coins and a couple of stainless steel pot scrubbers with a spoon or two of citric acid. In for a couple of hours no problem. The silver even makes the coins look better.

The real good brand silver with only light tarnish and a lot of detail. I'll drop them on boiling water with salt and tinfoil before polishing. Used to zap my silver but can't stand the fumes.
 
Steve said:
cheap stuff Idont bother... I might give the tinfoil a try soon.
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Chucking it in the tumbler is the best way to sort out the real silver from the junk stuff. Clean silver laying around, happy wife :lol:

Going to start making ingots of 925 out of the cheap or broken stuff this winter. May even make something out of it. Some nice moulds out there now.
 
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18kRonin said:
Chucking it in the tumbler is the best way to sort out the real silver from the junk stuff. Clean silver laying around, happy wife :lol:

Going to start making ingots of 925 out of the cheap or broken stuff this winter. May even make something out of it. Some nice mounds out there now.
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I tried 999 gold bars last summer . it's much harder than it sounds. They ended up looking like loaves of bread
 
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