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Sea growth on bottles - 4/7/2003 12:22:40 AM    Guest Some friends of mine and I went diving in a harbor in Puget Sound. We came across numerous fields of consisting of dozens of bottles. Most appeared to be newer, although there were a few that looked older. I' m not familiar with the art of bottle collecting. My only discrimination was I by-passed anything that had a theaded neck. I found a couple dairy bottles, a coke bottle, an old Purex bottle, and various other bottles that appear to be beer bottles. My first question is, how are bottles encrusted with sea growth such as barnacles properly cleaned? Someone in the group said leaving the barnacles on adds to it' s value. I' m not so sure. Right now I have them soaking in fresh water, no additives. Also, what is a good resource for identifying bottles for beginners? Thanks.   Post #: 1

RE: Sea growth on bottles - 4/7/2003 6:48:20 PM    Guest http://www.njscuba.com/artifacts/preservation.html check out this link i think it might help you with your cleaning of glass or china (in reply to Guest)   Post #: 2

RE: Sea growth on bottles - 4/7/2003 6:51:40 PM    Guest http://www.bottlebooks.com/basics.htm try this one for bottle basics (in reply to Guest)   Post #: 3

RE: Sea growth on bottles - 4/7/2003 9:11:54 PM    IRISH   Posts: 1238 Joined: 11/23/2002 From: cockatoo Australia Status: offline coral growth is just calcium carbonate dilute hydrochloric acid is the best to remove it, it will not etch glass. you can also use phosphoric acid if the bottle has iron staining as well, this acid is more toxic than hydrochloric tho. (in reply to Guest) Post #: 4

RE: Sea growth on bottles - 4/7/2003 10:00:51 PM    Guest Are those something easily found? What about just soaking them in bleach or putting them in the dishwasher? (in reply to IRISH)   Post #: 5

RE: Sea growth on bottles - 4/7/2003 10:21:34 PM    Guest try vinegar its slow or CLR you can get this at hardware store (in reply to Guest)   Post #: 6

RE: Sea growth on bottles - 4/7/2003 10:31:18 PM    oz-riley   Posts: 135 Joined: 11/24/2002 From: Melbourne, Australia. Status: offline Hi Bottle diver, hydrochloric acid is available at most hardware shops, it is also know as sugar soap which is used to clean walls before painting. I use a 25 part water to 1 part hydrochloric acid and soak overnight. I have section on my website on cleaning and polishing bottles, Bottle Cleaning Chris _____________________________ Please visit my Australian Antique Bottle Web Site 'The Aussie Bottle Digger' http://www.users.bigpond.com/oz-riley/ (in reply to Guest) Post #: 7

RE: Sea growth on bottles - 4/7/2003 11:35:28 PM    Guest CLR = ? I had a bottle of distilled white vinegar handy that I use at times for disinfecting my dive gear, so I used that. I put them in a small cooler (about a dozen bottles) and dumped the whole bottle in and filled it with hot water and I' ll let them sit overnight and see what happens. I' m glad I decided against running them through the dishwasher. Some had a lot of crud, sand, small slimy critters in them and I don' t think my roommate would have been happy about me ruining her appliance, and I didn' t want to buy her a new one. I' ve been trying to research on the net, and I' m finding a lot of sites that deal with digging them up on land, but not much in the way of hunting and preserving bottles found in seawater. If anybody can recommend a good site, I would appreciate it. (in reply to Guest)   Post #: 8

RE: Sea growth on bottles - 4/8/2003 12:13:47 PM    Guest Where in the Puget Sound were you? I' m familiar with several bottle fields there too, and would love to share info and stories. Note too, the extreme similarity in our screen names! -Valerie _____________________________ Always looking Mint Cola bottles, and local bottles from North Carolina (in reply to Guest)   Post #: 9

RE: Sea growth on bottles - 4/8/2003 11:53:41 PM    Guest Hi Valerie It' s me, the other " Bottle Diver" . Since you had first dibs on the handle and I' ve only posted 3 times, I re-registered using different handle to lessen the confusion. Any, we were diving in Gig Harbor. I definitely want to go back. I took a look at one of the milk bottles I brought up (quart sized) and cleaned it up a bit to reveal " Springdale Dairy" embossed on it. The other two milk bottles are pint bottles. One just says " one pint" and an area below that that' s just an embossed ring. I imagine that' s where the label was at one time. The other doesn' t have any lettering on it. I' ve got several of those brown beer bottles you posted a pic of. The vinegar/hot water bath didn' t do a lot except maybe loosen some of the barnacles. I' m giving all except the milk bottles a bleach/hot water bath and see if that works better. The milk bottles I dropped two tabs of denture cleaner in each and filled them with hot water. I would definitely like to here your experiences diving for bottles. Drop me an email. There is an antique bottle show this weekend in Chehalis I' m planning to go to Saturday to see what I can learn. Greg (in reply to Guest)   Post #: 10

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