Perdita 2 has a fair old bit of brass on her, no doubt inherited from various other boats and re-fitted to her over the years. She has 8 portholes on each side, some brass cleats and a brass trimmed/centred wheel that I’ve not started yet.
Pretty much all of the brass has gone dull and lost it’s shine, so while I’m not working the day job, or working on the boat or doing something else, I’m mostly polishing brass.
“where there’s muck there’s brass“.
Yorkshire proverb
dirty or unpleasant activities are also lucrative.
I’ve learned that a mix of vinegar, salt and flour is pretty good at cleaning the dull oxidised tarnished layer. Over the last weeks I’ve been gently gassing myself to death with the effects of huge amounts of Brasso.
Brasso webbing is top notch for cleaning this stuff and has brought a really nice shine up on many of the pieces I’ve done so far. Anyway some photos… Here’s where I got started, a box of the old portholes from the previous owner.
Here’s a before and after of some of the pieces. It’s hard to pickup on just how shiny they are.
Here’s one of the bigger internal cabin portholes all shiny.
Just starting work on this one…
A very shiny porthole!
A shiny porthole amongst newly cleaned flat portholes… and a pink tooth brush.
