Products or Recipes for Cleaning Copper

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Anyone have much experience in cleaning copper? I have a copper awning over a set of bay windows, which appears not to have been cleaned in perhaps 60 years.

I can Google of course, but thought someone here might be able to vouch for a certain product, or certain DIY recipe.
 
Anyone have much experience in cleaning copper? I have a copper awning over a set of bay windows, which appears not to have been cleaned in perhaps 60 years.

I can Google of course, but thought someone here might be able to vouch for a certain product, or certain DIY recipe.

I mix a
Anyone have much experience in cleaning copper? I have a copper awning over a set of bay windows, which appears not to have been cleaned in perhaps 60 years.

I can Google of course, but thought someone here might be able to vouch for a certain product, or certain DIY recipe.
The only experience I have is copper pans. Vinegar and salt mixture with a rag and a little elbow grease has done the trick for me.
 
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Tobasco sauce works great to make a dull tarnished penny look shiny and new, but that’d be an expensive awning cleaner. You’d have to try the vinegar salt method mentioned above to be a better cost method.
 
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I got two things to say, this:

Definition of patina

1a : a usually green film formed naturally on copper and bronze by long exposure or artificially (as by acids) and often valued aesthetically for its color. b : a surface appearance of something grown beautiful especially with age or use the beautiful patina of this antique table.


and just in case that ain't quite what you're dealing with, this:

This thread is worthless without pics
 
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1a : a usually green film formed naturally on copper and bronze by long exposure or artificially (as by acids) and often valued aesthetically for its color. b : a surface appearance of something grown beautiful especially with age or use the beautiful patina of this antique table.

If you can convince my wife of that, you'll save me some manual labor!
 
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We used Catsup to clean real copper pennies back in the day.
It would take a metric butt load of bottles to clean an awning. :LOL:
 
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We have copper sinks in our house.
To remove bring the cooper back to bright shine use white vinegar, you can spray ir on with an old Windex spray bottle let it set for a while the spray it off with water.
 
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