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RE: Visit my new bottle cleaning site - 7/29/2009 4:41:46 PM    T   Posts: 21 Joined: 10/10/2008 From: stokes co. nc Status: offline thanks suzanne, that makes me feel good coming from a famous author, writer, cleaner like yourself,as far as the printing not rubbing off i just get lucky sometimes, i have had a couple to come off , they had laid out in the weather and made the paint soft.   thanks greg, took a long time to find out what would help the painted bottles,always looking to make it better and faster. acls, most painted bottles is 20 dollars inside & out,if it has to go in a 5 inch or bigger tube then its more, price list a few spaces back, i have never had trouble with cleaning painted bottles getting nicks, scratches,but yours might be the first, if it has a weak place in the label , or some kind of bubble in it , it might nick the paint off, i will be glad to do it for you, but if i had a rare & high dollar painted bottle i would not chance it, better to have a stained bottle than a clean slick bottle , dont do much good to clean just the inside of a painted bottle if the outside is stained ,   thanks glenn _____________________________ GLENN www.gunnellsbottlecleaning.com (in reply to potstone) Post #: 21

RE: Visit my new bottle cleaning site - 7/29/2009 5:32:43 PM    acls   Posts: 802 Joined: 6/2/2005 Status: online Have you been able to reomove sickness from the outside glass of an ACL bottle without damging the ACL?  If so I may want to give this a chance. _____________________________ Click here to see my: ACL SODA BOTTLES FOR SALE & TRADE. (in reply to T) Post #: 22

RE: Visit my new bottle cleaning site - 7/30/2009 1:16:07 AM    T   Posts: 21 Joined: 10/10/2008 From: stokes co. nc Status: offline acls, yes i have had good luck with the outside, if it dont take it all off it might help it, if it has a soft cheap painted label no use to chance it , if it has a good baked on label that is a plus, i did some kind of rare painted label 7 up for james ayres that had hard crusty white stain all over it ,almost ever speck came off , but it took 9 days and did not hurt the label, i did a 12 ounce pl rc 15 days that was very bad took almost all off , i am not trying to talk you into cleaning it , just want you to be sure , i have done hundreds of painted labels and  dont think to much bout it , but i would hate to make the call and tell you your bottle didnt do to good,  just think bout it no hurry ,but if it has stain outside it has laid out in the water sometime, thanks glenn _____________________________ GLENN www.gunnellsbottlecleaning.com (in reply to acls) Post #: 23

RE: Visit my new bottle cleaning site - 12/23/2009 10:46:54 AM    suzanne   Posts: 689 Joined: 3/29/2009 Status: offline You do a great job.  I was wondering, tumbling people are always talking about cutting and polishing, and I was wondering what distinguishes a bottle that needs to be polished from one that needs to be cut?  And is there any way to protect embossing so it doesn't wear off.  I don't tumble bottles but I would like to know more about it.  Thank you. (in reply to T) Post #: 24

RE: Visit my new bottle cleaning site - 12/25/2009 12:17:51 AM    T   Posts: 21 Joined: 10/10/2008 From: stokes co. nc Status: offline suzanne, any bottle that has stain on the inside or outside will need to be  cut with some type cutter to get the stain off, in some cases some bottles that have a very lite haze  on the outside might polish off , you have more weight and action on the outside of the bottle, most time polish will not take stain off the inside , if you have one or two lite spots of stain on the inside and just try to polish it out it will look worst after you are done, it will shine the bottle up and make the stain show up worst ,just like washing a black car and missing spots, if you try to polish stains off on the outside you have a good chance of wearing down the letters , cleaning bottles is just like body shop work , you just have to no what grit of cutter and  polish to use and how long to use it, as far as putting something on a bottle to keep from cutting the letters down, i dont no of a good  way, most time there will be stain around the letters, if you are going to just polish a bottle outside it wont hurt the letters much at all if you dont over do it, if i was going to try something i would get rubber spray in the can and tape out around the letters and let it dry real good , when your done get  crc brake clean in the green can to take the rubber coating off, if you do this your copper will not slide good over the bottle , might get a bad job, as many things as you have talked bout on here and as much heat as you have took and you still going , you should build you a machine and give it a try , you might just come up with the rite stuff, thanks glenn _____________________________ GLENN www.gunnellsbottlecleaning.com (in reply to suzanne) Post #: 25

RE: Visit my new bottle cleaning site - 12/25/2009 6:59:23 AM    suzanne   Posts: 689 Joined: 3/29/2009 Status: offline Thank you.  A lot of people don't seem to realize that it is actually a lot like auto body work.  It's not like you can buy something at the super-market that will get rid of mineral deposits. I really like the way your bottles come out because they look sparkly, not slick like window panes.   (in reply to T) Post #: 26

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