[Hallicrafters] Tarn-X and silver

[Rich Oliver]

Mark,

A couple of years back I noticed my wife using Tarn-X on our silverware. 
  She had poured it in a bowl and dumped in the silverware, then was 
removing it and wiping it off a piece at a time.  I had a pretty good 
ideal where this exercise was headed but was pointedly invited to 
refrain from telling her how to polish silver.  I've been married long 
enough to recognize good advice when I hear it so went off to play with 
my Hallicrafters.

Anybody know a good place to replate silverware?

Cheers, Rich

Mark Shaum wrote:
> Ah, this brings memories of using Tarn-X on a Heathkit SB-series wafer
> switch as a teenager.  I discovered that the thin silver plating on the
> contacts is indeed, thin.  The stuff removed all silver, leaving a nice
> brass colored substrate to oxidize.  I had used it to clean up a much
> more heavily silver plated final tank coil first and thought it would be
> just the thing to improve my intermittant bandswitch.  Live, solder, and
> learn.
> 
> If you use it on silver plated parts, polish it off and/or rinse it off
> quickly.
> 
> I'm going to look for some of the Goddard's stuff and see how it does
> with thin silver plate.  I am gathering quite the shoebox full of
> boatanchor fixin' elixers.  Can't find restock for my antenna wax
> though.
> 
> 73! - Mark K9TR