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Those would make some cute juice glasses- (Robbie?)


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If you polished for 6 days with the Aluminum Oxide you showed in Pic you should be fine. Heres what you do next, Forget the Silicone Carbide. Thats only good for heavy duty cleaning in my opinion & not neccessary on most Bottles, Unless all your Bottles are Extremely sick & Beat to Hell, Then maybe. For your next Bottle that aint to Beat or Rough just tumble for 6 days in Aluminum Oxide only. Then rinse the Black Residue off with Diluted Mauratic Acid. Let me know what happens????????? LEON.
 

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Just wanted to stop in and say hello. Here’s a new add to the St. Louis collection that tumbled out nicely. I’ve purchased a couple more tumbling machines and I’m currently up to cleaning 16 bottles at a time. Between my full time job and family I’ve been spending all my free time cleaning bottles. Still haven’t cleaned many of my own and really don’t like posting pics of other peoples bottles. I’m currently working on some I picked up at the St. Louis bottle show. I’ll post some pics when I get them cleaned
 

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If you polished for 6 days with the Aluminum Oxide you showed in Pic you should be fine. Heres what you do next, Forget the Silicone Carbide. Thats only good for heavy duty cleaning in my opinion & not neccessary on most Bottles, Unless all your Bottles are Extremely sick & Beat to Hell, Then maybe. For your next Bottle that aint to Beat or Rough just tumble for 6 days in Aluminum Oxide only. Then rinse the Black Residue off with Diluted Mauratic Acid. Let me know what happens????????? LEON.

THANK YOU!!!! Your the boss, Leon. I’m the hands, feet & bux, k? So let’s fix some stuff…. (
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From 3000 miles away.) Here are a few of my victims. Of course, I have beat to hell bottles,Leon! I live with a pack of free-range servals. They love me and my stuff- A LOT. (the nice bottles are behind glass or in boxes) but bottles are getting beat to hell,just trying to learn this! I’ve done unspeakable things to some of these bottles! (Ever tumble a bottle in a peanut butter jar?) Kat >^..^<


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I only have a 4” canister so I could only tumble the inside of this one. Just doing the inside made a really big difference though.
 

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Gotta be careful with those...they will flash up. Tough bottles to find though!
 

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Gotta be careful with those...they will flash up. Tough bottles to find though!
This was a bottle I tumbled for someone else (I wish it was mine). He picked it up today and dropped off 5 more. The only Texas one I recognized was the Denver Buffett out of Houston.
 

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Here’s a couple I purchased and cleaned from the St. Louis show
 

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