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Oldcodger · 2nd Dec 2019, 5:36 pm

Uncertain of material ( brass imitation ?), but I did have a decent outcome with the numbers on my door numbers .( Cheap & nasty due to being LA property ) . The finish suffered after some foreign sub ( to nth degree ) splattered the door etc with render and used some sort of acidic solution to remove the excess.
I used a fine wet & dry paper , then a wet & dry block ( wet of course ,with washing up liquid) , and finished off with a car scratch 2 grade kit. ( similar to Brasso/T cut. ). I then protected the surface with car spray lacquer .
As an aside, I've resurrected an old DVD using the 2 grade scratch kit ,removing the residue with meths.

2nd Dec 2019, 5:36 pm	#8
Oldcodger Nonode Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: West Midlands, UK. Posts: 2,181	Re: Black oxide coating on brass Uncertain of material ( brass imitation ?), but I did have a decent outcome with the numbers on my door numbers .( Cheap & nasty due to being LA property ) . The finish suffered after some foreign sub ( to nth degree ) splattered the door etc with render and used some sort of acidic solution to remove the excess. I used a fine wet & dry paper , then a wet & dry block ( wet of course ,with washing up liquid) , and finished off with a car scratch 2 grade kit. ( similar to Brasso/T cut. ). I then protected the surface with car spray lacquer . As an aside, I've resurrected an old DVD using the 2 grade scratch kit ,removing the residue with meths.