Cleaning Cymbals

[Richard Bastien]

Anybody have any hints on how to get discolored cymbals
clean and shiny?

Thanks

[HYMELAND]

BRASSO!!!!!!!!

[jlaning]

Zildjian puts out their own cymbal cleaning cream.(Almost any music
store should have it.) That plus some good old elbow grease should do
the trick. Just be careful not to rub the cream on the logo. It has a
tendency to rub that off too.

Jay

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[PltSlngr]

>Anybody have any hints on how to get discolored cymbals
>clean and shiny?
>
>Thanks

The best product I have come across to clean cymbals is Wright's Brass Polish.
Unlike Brasso it does not leave black stuff all over them to wipe off on your
clothes. It also doesn't harm the logo. However should your logo not be
"showroom" quality, try touching it up with a black permanent marker.

[Hadam16]

one of the kids dad, in a drumline i teach, is a shop teacher. he took them
and buffed them on a buffer, and they looked so awesome, lasted the whole
season. but make sure if you go that route that you have someone who knows what
they are doing do it
~ADAM

[VKGARRY73]

Lots of good ideas here. I've also used Kleen King Copper Cleaner and Bright
Boy.

DO NOT USE TARN-X!!!! It will turn them green! We found out the hard way. They
looked great when we were done, and were green the next morning when we arrived
to leave for a competition. Plus, it smells like rotten eggs!

VKG

"We are the people our parents warned us about"

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[AFNY951]

AJAXs

[musi...@paonline.com]

For Cleaning Cymbals, my sister (Who was trained under Dan DeLong, world
champion percussion arranger/instructor) always uses "Zud", which is similar
to "Comet" scrubbing cleaner.
Another good product is Wright's Brass Polish. The Buccaneers Contra section
was sponsored by Wrights Polishes. Their Silver polish works well, and the
brass polish was phenominal to clean our slides.

--
Ryan Williams
Reading Buccaneers Drum and Bugle Corps Contra Section
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[goods]

Noxon 7 in the green bottle. the second you put it on, you gotta rub it. it'll
turn them silvery. Bey bey finish and logo, but it looks really good from the
stands.

Dave Good, racker
East Coast Jazz 98

[PJSdrum]

I've also used a relatively new commercial cleaner called Groove Juice. It
worked pretty well to clean up tarnish. (I'd probably use plain soap,water, and
a scrub brush to get dirt out of the grooves) If you try the Groove Juice be
careful not to get it on your hands or any other parts cause it is pretty
caustic.

[colin hartnett]

barkeeper's friend works well on really dirty stuff, but wave goodbye to
logos and such.

colin.

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[Larry Eckert]

forget the rest go with the best;

FLITZ; it s a metal and fiberglass cleaner
FLITZ INTERATIONAL,LTD, WATERFORD WI 53185
I been using Flitz for over 10 years on all of my cymbals and I have lot
of then.
MR. CYMBALS
Criterions
Ambassadors of NY Caballeros
& Caballeros Alumni
1999 DCA I & E Cymbals Champion

[LMctagg]

>DO NOT USE TARN-X!!!! It will turn them green! We found out the hard way.

Wow! I thought I was the only one to make that mistake!!!! :)

Laurie

[KBoula6896]

try product called noxon,,, can get this
in any polishing department in shopping
store

[RBrown4431]

All these products are good cleaners and will clean bronze cymbals. Two
additional rules to using any of these cleaners:

1. All cleaners oxidize the bronze, thats what makes them shiny. The very act
of polishing the cymbal causes them to immediately start turning dark again.
After getting them completely clean (no black stuff) wash them thoroughly with
soap (dishwasing soap is recommended, we use Dawn in the shop) to clean off
anything the buffing process doesnt remove. Hot and scrub, then throroughly
dry.

2. After drying and washing, try a little (not a lot) of any car wax. Not a
bunch, but it will seal the cymbal from the air a little more & retard the
oxidizing process.

After you clean them & they start getting used, they start oxidizing. All
cymbals do this...regular, brilliant, etc. They don't do it as fast when they
are new, because the cymbal manufacturer puts a wax sealant on the cymbal
before shipping. When you clean them, you remove it. Put it back on. Use lots
of elbow grease during cleaning & buffing and washing, then lite wax.

Someone previously offered using a buffer bonnet, like your car. Thats ok, but
be cautious not to heat the cymbal. Bronze, when heated, changes its temper
(thats how the cymbal is made). If you heat it, you are retuning it, you
probably don't want that.

We use a cymbal cleaning machine here in our store, and it works well. We make
a huge mess doing it, but the results are awesome. Just be sure not to heat up
your cymbal with friction.

Good luck to all the piatti cleaners!

Rick Brown
Percussion Concepts
www.zzdadagok.com

[CrownPit99]

Taco Bell FIRE SAUCE!

It really works, try it. But in all honesty, you shouldn't polish cymbals very
much. It takes off the finish and changes the sound. If you bury a cymbal for
a few weeks, it will produce a much darker and richer sound.

--
Steven Musumeche
Carolina Crown Percussion

[Cymplaya]

>Taco Bell FIRE SAUCE!

we used tabasco sauce mixed in with brasso. we used our fingers to scrub the
cyms and old towels to wipe off. watch those stamps.

[Peart101]

moonshine! ;)

Jay
Generations Sr.
Snare '94-'99
DCI hopeful for 2000
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[Rigroves]

> But in all honesty, you shouldn't polish cymbals very
>much. It takes off the finish and changes the sound.

Amen! It really depends just how tarnished the plates are. If they are really
deeply discolored then you will need to use more abrasive(sp?) cleaners. Keep
in mind that Brasso (along with a majority of those other brass cleaners) is
very harsh and may do more damage then good (aka: kill to much of the finish
and also change the tamber). Go with the Zildjian cream cleaner for standard
use. Its will do the job. As for stopping the left over black tarnish the next
day...the more deeper you buff off, and do it several times, the less you will
have coming off. But it is oxidation so there will always be some blackness
coming off.

Robert Groves
rigr...@aol.com
ICQ#: 2077631
http://members.aol.com/rigroves/dc/seca.html

[Ri ruu]

>Taco Bell FIRE SAUCE!

I was thinking the same thing. We tried that too.
Diane

[PhtomRebel]

Man, Rubbing Compound from Turtul Wax was the way to go with us this summer

[CozyPorch]

>best product I have come across to clean cymbals is Wright's Brass Polish.
>Unlike Brasso it does not leave black stuff

Ditto! Wright's products are great. They polish up cymbals fantastically.
W's Silver Polish is wonderful for horns.

Cozy

[MMLDuarte1]

Thanks for the info on theWright's Brass Polish, but where can I get some.

Lou

[SlickCookie]

Nothing like a good spit shine to clean a cymbal, I always say.
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