cleaning sick glass?

[peejrey]

What about CLR?

 

[GuntherHess]

What about CLR?

"The main ingredients in CLR are water, gluconic acid, citric acid, lactic acid, surfactants, glycolic acid and sulfamic acid."

It may clean deposits on the glass but I see nothing in it that will help repair the eroded (sick) glass surface.

 

[carobran]

so does muriatic acid work or not,some people have said it does,some said it doesnt,id like to know before i waste money on it and use something that might burn my fingers off,but if it works ill definitely try it,and does copper wire work,and if so how?[8|]

 

[GuntherHess]

does muriatic acid work

it will not repair eroded(sick) glass. It can clean calcium stains.

 

[carobran]

how do i tell if its calcium stains or sick glass

 

[GuntherHess]

how do i tell if its calcium stains or sick glass

its not always easy to tell just by looking with mildly sick bottles.
maybe someone else has a test method.
heavy etching, opalescence, and oxidation will be pretty obvious.

 

[suzanne]

What kind of bottle do you have?

 

[carobran]

i have several that are sick,the one id most like to get clean is a milk

 

[pikewaynepabottles]

Matt , it was good seeing you at Shupp's ... sorry I didn't really get to talk with you ! The guy I set up with tipped me off on filling it with water & sealing/taping off the bottle filled with water . He learned many years ago that the bottle will get too hot when just empty !

 

[T]

i have tried bout everything you can think of, hundreds of dollars, many hours, nothing has ever took the stain off, they look good till they dry, you think they look better because you have worked so hard, i f you dont want to get it cleaned just put baby oil in and out, that will help it look better,the hardest bottle to clean is one that has been cleaned and is fogged up on the inside , that will test your nevers, there is no quick fix that i no of, thanks glenn