Cleaning tips, or too late?

[witterth]

The machine heads on a 20 year old stingray I have are very tarnished looking. is it possible to get them back to new looking? they work fine just look a bit tatty,KWIM?
any ideas ladies and gentlemen?
W

[bumnote]

I have had the same happen on mine
I was told they are nickel rather than chrome and thats what happens
I dont know if this is correct

[harvey1-8]

Yep, mine are tarnished too, although mine won't be 20 till next year. I'm not too fussed about it.

[hillbilly deluxe]

Try Brasso,or something similar.As long as they are not rusty it should work.

[allighatt0r]

Take them off and put them in cola overnight?

I've heard it works on bridges and knobs...

[discreet]

[quote name='allighatt0r' post='740914' date='Feb 10 2010, 12:52 PM']Take them off and put them in cola overnight?

I've heard it works on bridges and knobs...[/quote]

Fnar!

[Jerry_B]

Making a paste of water and baking soda and then leaving the machine in that overnight will probably do the trick, once you've cleaned it all up. You're never really going to get them looking like 100% new.

[alkal78]

I'm afraid nothing will work... No brasso, no cola, no soda, nothing. Yes, it will be clean, and you'll remove successfully even the hardest dirt, but you'll never be able to remove all the tarnish. And that's because the pollutants that are in the air and the sweat that's left on the machine heads from the fingers, eventually, after many years, get through the pores of the nickel coat, sit on the metal and cause its corrosion. It's irreversible...

[Jerry_B]

Yep, that's true - some form of tarnish will always be there. All you can do is maintain a nice 'seasoned' tarnish and not let it go bad and end up looking very manky indeed!

[Dandelion]

I wish that I could tone down my chrome ones.