OMG! Vaseline! The before and after!!!

[Nordmark]

Hi Tim,


what also works very good is to apply a little more of vaseline and carefully heat it up with a hairdryer till it liquifies, so the vaseline can crawl into all the recesses. I usually leave it on the badge for a couple of days before you can carefully wipe it off the badge.


Regards,


Daniel

[TP Alexander]

by Juncker

Thank you. I suspected and hoped that that was the answer but I wasn't sure.

And thank you to everyone else for their comments and support!
Tim

[Dennis J]

Hi Tim,


what also works very good is to apply a little more of vaseline and carefully heat it up with a hairdryer till it liquifies, so the vaseline can crawl into all the recesses. I usually leave it on the badge for a couple of days before you can carefully wipe it off the badge.


Regards,


Daniel

This really works as I have done 100's of times on all types of old zinc pest ridden badges and other things made out of zinc.I think you did a great job on your very nice badge.

Happy New Year
Dennis J

[Thomas Durante]

Hi Tim,

Great result, what a lovely badge in really nice condition!

I too am a big believer in the vaseline treatment.

Tom

[steiner68]

great work !

[Graeme]

Hi Tim

super result

Best course of action you could have taken IMO.

All the best
Graeme

[scott3000]

wow

[Jean-Claude]

Your BKA turned out beautiful Tim and you surely kept a great piece of history from eventual demise.

And to say that in the early 80's when I parted with a large portion of my collection for "family priorities" the first to go where "zinkers" in the stupid beleif that they would eventually turn to dust on me and I could always replace them with better tombac specimens later ! All were in great shape just somewhat faded and some were blistered a bit. Bronze & Silver BKA, Gold CCC, Late Assmann A- L/64 Para and many others I would be hard pressed to replace now were sacrificed to ignorance!

Great job!

JC

[Ludwig]

A very nice badge!

[Ron Weinand]

I started using vaseline over 40 years ago and have never had a bad experience. You must control the humidity ( prefer less than 30%) and I keep the treated medal away from circulating air (under glass or in a case) as the dust in the air will settle on objects and carry contaminates that will attack the surface over time.

[Arthur Kullmer]

It does look much much better & took 70 years to get like it was, so if you can live for another 70 years I still dont think it will have turned to dust.
Come to think of it we will have turned to dust before that badge does.