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Damaged, Repair, Clean, Preserve Soviet Awards And Documents. - marcotk - 03-27-2009
This is a two men job. One will deposit a small drop of glue on the medal via the toothpick, while the other will then press them together for 10/30 second as hard as he can. That is it..! Since the metal cracked if done carefully you will be able to "re-match" the 2 parts together.
As far as the glue, any Cyanoacrylate will be fine!
Damaged, Repair, Clean, Preserve Soviet Awards And Documents. - Bogdan - 03-28-2009
ANZAC Wrote:This is what one looks like after a ring fix with solder. Blackened and nasty looking. Saving grace is it was done by the veteran in this particular case.
Brendan
Brendan,
That didn't look as bad as I had imagined but yes, it is still noticable.
Damaged, Repair, Clean, Preserve Soviet Awards And Documents. - jefflgarrison - 03-28-2009
here is my spotless BM. Help me "wrinkle" it again after the face lift.
Damaged, Repair, Clean, Preserve Soviet Awards And Documents. - EricFG - 03-28-2009
Well Jeff, you could find some nice black earth (preferabley Soviet issue), add a little water and make some mud. Rub it on, let it dry and then clean most of it off.
I've actually aged ribbons that way. I also age my ribbons by rubbing them between two bricks with some sand thrown in but I don't think that would be a good idea with your BM.
Fakers use some sort of chemical to give silver a patina. I have no idea what it is though.
If you smoke how about rubbing some cigarette ash on it? I've done that as well to ribbons.
Damaged, Repair, Clean, Preserve Soviet Awards And Documents. - jefflgarrison - 03-28-2009
I fear giving my BM cancer, so I won't do the last one. However, I might give the first idea a try.
Damaged, Repair, Clean, Preserve Soviet Awards And Documents. - LuisMoutinho - 04-10-2009
What usually the people used to clean the medals?
I have some dark, I wonder if are any problem in clean with a product to clean metal and silver.
I don't know if the product takes the gold colour of them
Best regards, Luis
Damaged, Repair, Clean, Preserve Soviet Awards And Documents. - neferet - 04-10-2009
Hi:
I clean every medal with the specific product for each material: brass, copper, silver, etc..
Clean soil at depth, but care should be taken with the gold to be treated more gently
Damaged, Repair, Clean, Preserve Soviet Awards And Documents. - neferet - 04-10-2009
... Luis indeed, not all the world like cleaning the coin, many people want to keep the patina that time and history added
Damaged, Repair, Clean, Preserve Soviet Awards And Documents. - Tretov - 04-10-2009
I would say, that the answer is simply "Don´t", awards has a patina which is better kept. If the recipient of the award chose to clean it, then so be it, but as collectors I dont think we should apply any chemicals.
Damaged, Repair, Clean, Preserve Soviet Awards And Documents. - EricFG - 04-10-2009
I prefer soap and water for obvious surface dirt. Nothing more than polishing with a soft cloth and no harsh chemicals.
There are a few threads about cleaning here:
http://www.soviet-awards.com/forum/soviet-military-awards/general-talk/18235-cleaning-medals.html
http://www.soviet-awards.com/forum/soviet-military-awards/general-talk/108-clean-not-clean.html