Re: [CR] Cleaning Brooks rivets - How to ?

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From: "Steve Leitgen" <sleitgen@charter.net>
Subject: Re: [CR] Cleaning Brooks rivets - How to ?
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 09:26:24 -0600
To: "lennys_email@juno.com" <lennys_email@juno.com>
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

Riding has made mine quite shiny. : ) Otherwise a little copper wool took the heavy crud off and then I used a polishing compound. Simichrome worked well.

Steve Leitgen La Crosse, WI

On Mar 7, 2006, at 8:15 AM, lennys_email@juno.com wrote:
> Greetings All,
> Just got a new B-17 that has very tarnished copper rivets. Any advice
> o
> n how to make them shine without damaging the leather ? Thanks.
> Len Grossman
> South Orange, NJ