I recently purchased a Parker 61 with a Rainbow Cap. The Rainbow Cap appears to be a gold and silver colored stripes one and the stripes appear heavily tarnished even on the gold. How can I safely polish this and remove the tarnish?

Thanks,

Bobby Check

I use a tiny ball of simichrome, a soft cloth & some elbow grease. Makes it shine like a new penny every time.

mild body powder with cloth or your children rubber (eraser) will do the tricks.

Be careful though - I polished mine in haste meaning the tarnish on the silver has yet to return

Thanks I will give it a try.

Bobby Check

A jeweler's rouge sloth is the best bet. Simichrome is best used on metal alloys not gold, silver or plastics, it is too abrasive.

If you want a good all purpose polish (especially for metals and hard rubber), use Wenol, not Simichrome.

Can we get any of these in England. I tried to find out if we could get one of the cements here and couldn't and of course we can't import it either. Against air freight regs....

Regards

Rabbi Zvi.

Jeweler's rouge cloths are also often referred to as "silver polishing cloths". Any reasonably large silver-carrying jeweller should be able to help you out. I get mine from a local hardware store or craft store near where I live, but I don't know if they'd have anything like that where you are.

I used simichrome as DWL suggested. It worked beautifully!

After a bit of polishing the pens look like mint!

Thanks again,

Bobby

In my experience, the cloths sold as silver polishing cloths are often not rouge cloths; they are typically abrasive-impregnated cloths (aluminum oxide likely being the abrasive). Rouge, on the other hand, is iron oxide, and its principle mode of action is burnishing, not abrasion. Rouge cloths have a distinctive rust-red appearance.

--Daniel

Yikes! I stand corrected!