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I am trying to polish Nickel - Silver

We are a small ornamental railing fabricator and we have an extruded handrail moulding about 6'-0 long. The material is a mill finish nickel silver and we can't seem to polish to a shine. We are currently trying a dry compound with a buffing wheel from RB Wagner. Please help us.

Matt Calkins
- Fultonville, New York
2005

You can use mixture of Vienna lime and oil of stearine.

Good luck!

Goran Budija
- Cerovski vrh Croatia
2005

If you have a lot of volume and/or your time cycle is in hours, then you may want to look at an automated pass through brush system. I can suggest a company that makes such systems and they will run a test sample for you.

AF Kenton
retired business owner - Hatboro, Pennsylvania
2005

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