{"id":8050,"date":"2018-02-01T17:06:55","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T16:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lampandco.com\/?p=8050"},"modified":"2023-03-09T09:33:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T08:33:13","slug":"how-to-restore-brass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lampandco.com\/en\/how-to-restore-brass\/","title":{"rendered":"How to restore brass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time can be really tough on things. We came across gorgeous double shaded wall lamps which were in bad shape. Something had to be done.&nbsp;But how does one restore brass?<\/p>\n<p>We just followed step by step the technique of a French website (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.toutpratique.com\/5-La-maison\/109-Nettoyer-et-peindre-le-metal\/294-Nettoyer-le-laiton.php\">toutpratique.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>wear gloves then mix 500ml of white vinegar and boiling water in a basin,<\/li>\n<li>immerse the object<\/li>\n<li>then clean it and rub it with a sponge sprinkled with salt,<\/li>\n<li>immerse it again<\/li>\n<li>rub it a second time<\/li>\n<li>immerse it 10 more minutes if necessary<\/li>\n<li>take it out rinse it with tepid water<\/li>\n<li>clean it with soap and water,<\/li>\n<li>dry it<\/li>\n<li>polish it (we used the finest steel wool size triple 0).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The first bath takes the green stains away and leaves the brass with a touch of pink but after the final polish : Waou!<\/p>\n<p>Looking for brass items to try out the technique ? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lampandco.com\/en\/product-tag\/brass\/\">#brass<\/a>&nbsp;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time can be really tough on things. We came across gorgeous double shaded wall lamps which were in bad shape. Something had to be done.&nbsp;But how does one restore brass? We just followed step by step the technique of a French website (toutpratique.com). wear gloves then mix 500ml of white vinegar and boiling water in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[]},"categories":[1224],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lampandco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8050"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lampandco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lampandco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lampandco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lampandco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8050"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lampandco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37721,"href":"https:\/\/www.lampandco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8050\/revisions\/37721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lampandco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lampandco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lampandco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lampandco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}