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Help!!! I have a parade tomorrow and I have just put my medals on my No 1's and they are quite tarnished. Does anybody have any idea how to clean and polish medals without damaging them?
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Sounds like you must be below Air Rank ( presuming that they are theatre based medals)
Just beating the air into submission!
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Brasso!
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Chap, get down to Tesco's for some Brasso Wadding. Put some plastic over the ribbon (under the gong), apply using eblow grease, let dry, polish orf.
Don't polish the dark coloured one(s).
Honestly, this must be a WAW?
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Chap, get down to Tesco's for some Brasso Wadding. Put some plastic over the ribbon (under the gong), apply using eblow grease, let dry, polish orf.
Don't polish the dark coloured one(s).
Honestly, this must be a WAW?
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I wouldn't go with brasso too often. It's quite abrasive and will scratch the medals. Duraglit is slightly kinder.
I personally use lemon juice however. It's just slightly acidic and so will remove that tarnish, and it won't scratch. Leaves your medals fresh smelling too!
As the previous posters have said, cover the ribbons (cling film is good) otherwise they'll stain.
I personally use lemon juice however. It's just slightly acidic and so will remove that tarnish, and it won't scratch. Leaves your medals fresh smelling too!
As the previous posters have said, cover the ribbons (cling film is good) otherwise they'll stain.
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Pop along to John Lewis or the like (you DO have a John Lewis near you don't you?) and get a silver polishing or jewellery polishing cloth. More gentle again and very effective.
"Tarnished Medals".....sounds like John Kerry could answer your questions since he is an accomplished medal polisher.
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Use a rubber (eraser for the cousins!) on the end of a pencil. Works wonders very quickly. When they are clean,then clingfim them (after the parade!) and they'll stay that way 'til the next time...
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Good call teetering, the rubber erasing tool is the way forward; don't forget to take them of the No1s 1st!!!! I find one not attached to the pencil more efficient.
My Iraq medal seems to have been made with built-in tarnish; it's definitely poorer quality than my others, and try as I might with polish, it never comes properly clean.
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Snapper,
Sent my medals (all 2 of them...) off to get mounted and they polished my Iraq medal. Came back shiny on one half and dull on the other. If you listen to the ladies in the tailors, apparently that's how they should be (dull, not half and half)!!!! Don't make `em like they used to.......
Sent my medals (all 2 of them...) off to get mounted and they polished my Iraq medal. Came back shiny on one half and dull on the other. If you listen to the ladies in the tailors, apparently that's how they should be (dull, not half and half)!!!! Don't make `em like they used to.......
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Sod all that! How did the medals turn out? Did you get the big thumbs up from the big SWO man? And what method did you use? I'm on tenterhooks!
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How can someone not know how to polish their medals; you'll be asking how to polish your boots next! 
I assume you are from the "Staybrite" & plastic webbing era. None of that crap in my day; just good old brass buttons, Brasso, button stick and a tin of blanco. Oh well that's progress.
I assume you are from the "Staybrite" & plastic webbing era. None of that crap in my day; just good old brass buttons, Brasso, button stick and a tin of blanco. Oh well that's progress.
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How can someone not know how to polish their medals; you'll be asking how to polish your boots next!
I assume you are from the "Staybrite" & plastic webbing era. None of that crap in my day; just good old brass buttons, Brasso, button stick and a tin of blanco. Oh well that's progress.
I assume you are from the "Staybrite" & plastic webbing era. None of that crap in my day; just good old brass buttons, Brasso, button stick and a tin of blanco. Oh well that's progress.
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