Brass polishes

Clint Fountain asked for a recommendation for ammonia free brass
polishes.

Perhaps you should avoid brass polishes altogether, and recommend
silver polishes instead. These tend to be less abrasive than brass
polishes. There are several available that are water or IMS based,
which are less hazardous to the user than Brasso that contains white
spirits, which now has a fairly low TLV. You could include in your
talk microphotographs of samples of brass that have been polished
with brass polish and silver polish to demonstrate how much harsher
the brass polishes are.

George Bailey
Objects Conservator
Australian War Memorial
Treloar Centre for Conservation
4 Callan St, Mitchell, A.C.T. 2911
Australia
+61 6 241 6122
Fax: +61 6 241 7998

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