ssbaldwin wrote:
↑Oct 22, 2023
silentbd
Please let us know about your experience with Autosol when you get it, I have been thinking about giving it a try myself.
Spencer
I am astonished. I have used it on the following:
Already shiny chrome Hiatt M&C 1916 Darby
R.C.S British military darby, smooth, matt dull grey steel.
A nickel-plated pre-WW2 Metropolitan police whistle.
All of these I cleaned with isopropanol, then Autosol and then re-Renaissance wax polished. (I renaissance wax everything, cuffs, keys, whistles, knives, my soul... everything)
Absolutely amazed.
- The 1916 were already quite shiny but they seem a bit shinier.
- The R.C.S were very dull and when I got them they were duller, a blue-grey steel that rusted in mere days after skin contact. But now they look like normal steel and have some shininess to them.
- The whistle had a characteristicly old slightly matt/dull greeny-silvery finish on the nickel plate. But after treatment it is bright silver looking and shiny!
I have also used it on a modern J nowell & son Fairbair-sykes fighting knife (commando dagger) which originally had blued finish but has long since been worn off after messing up sharpening it. I scrapped the black finish. Well, I used Autosol on it today and it has come up slightly brighter than it was before after having used peek metal cleaner and Renaissance wax. So I have to say I am impressed by Autosol.
Warnings on the tube are
do not use on painted, lacquered, anodised or powder-coated surfaces. I used it on my dagger because I do not want any remnant blackness on it anyway. So all in all, I LOVE this stuff. Thank you to whoever recently mentioned it.
EDIT: I have since also used this on my Hiatt 101 superintendents. Again, brighter, shinier, over all nicer. Not vastly, but appreciably nicer and worth the effort.
