Letter 40045

Removing unwanted splashed tin coating from outside of antique copper tea kettle [Kansas]  March 25, 2006 Recently purchase a nice antique dove tailed copper tea kettle. However, it has a big ugly appearance problem. Sometime long ago it appears someone did a very sloppy retining of it's interior. Question: How do I get the messy tin off exterior copper's surface? Thanks for any help! Gloria Bowman - Overland Park, Kansas March 29, 2006 Try mixture of 1 part water/1 part Muriatic Acid [link is to product info at Amazon] (conc.), 65 C temp. Good luck! Goran Budija - Zagreb, Croatia

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