Topic: How on earth do I clean this glass!

[Fen]

I bought this lustre today for 50p at a boot sale and I was thrilled to find out when I got home that it has a lovely uranium glass glow to boot (no pun intended). I'm a bit dispmayed now, an hour later and I've tried washing it but the base is covered in dirt inside and I can't get at it. Any ideas appreciated. I will get some drops and put it in my window - anyone elses childhood influenced by Pollyana's Mrs Snow?

[glassobsessed]

An overnight soak with soda crystals can work well, alternatively if you have any stain remover that you add to your cloths wash (the 'oxy' action type) also soaked overnight can work wonders.

You can also sometimes buy long bendy bottle type brushes, these are good for getting around corners.

John

[Fen]

Thank you. Off to the laundry room now.

[Max]

Dried rice shaken with a bit of water sometimes helps too.

[ahremck]

My pet gentler method is to get a lump of cotton wool, dampen it, and add some toothpaste.  Then put it in the vase and swirl the vase so the cotton wool slides - and you achieve a gentle grinding action with the toothpaste.  I would soak the vase with washing soda or bicarb soda for 24 hours before using the cotton wool.

To get the wool out - if it proves dificult simply add lots of water, swish the woll abit so it becomes dispeersed and then tip upside down rqapidly into the sink.  The cotton wool usually comes out as a messy blob.

Ross

[Ivo]

Dishwasher tablet followed by chlorine bleach and a gentle scrub with a bottle brush wouldbe my course of action.

[chopin-liszt]

I wouldn't put soda crystals or washing soda anywhere near glass - it's sodium hydroxide - which will dissolve glass and make it nasty and cloudy.

My first course of action is always a soak in a bit of biological washing liquid and water - it will get shot of any organic muck - easily loosened with your dried rice or magic balls (little copper ball bearings).

[Lustrousstone]

I wouldn't put soda crystals or washing soda anywhere near glass - it's sodium hydroxide -

No, it's sodium carbonate and probably won't react with the glass. It can remove lime and is used as a descaling agent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_carbonate

[chopin-liszt]

 :thud:

Well harumph, if folk would just use the proper names for chemicals there would be no confusion! (where's the "tearing my hair out" emoticon?)

I was thinking of the drain unblocking stuff, or oven cleaner - often known as washing soda.... which IS sodium hydroxide.

We don't need or use water softeners up here. :sc: We don't have scaly water.

Anybody think this bit of glass might glow brightly green under uv?

[davidfish1212]

An over night soak and then rice has never let me down yet, although the copper balls, I have been told, are even more effective.

David  :sc: