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I have some brass/phelonic light sockets. They have nasty white crud in them. How do you go about cleaning these up?

I use steel wool...

Ketchup

http://www.mnn.com/your-home/at-home/st ... -naturally

If it makes any difference...this wasn't dirty brass, it's like light-bulb-butt corrosion.

Model train track cleaner work well on that.

I also use it to clean flash light contacts.

LarryC39 wrote:If it makes any difference...this wasn't dirty brass, it's like light-bulb- butt corrosion.

....that's different.
Sounds like that limey crustation stuff. Try a fine brass brush and some CLR.
Chargers idea is worth a try though.

Yeah it was like put on the heavy gloves and pray the bulb don't break twisting kind of trouble. Ironic bc the rest of the light is spotless!

Hey Larry,

When I restored my Deco, I placed all of my brass parts in a plastic container with brasso and shook the container and let them sit overnight. With the agitation of the parts

maybe you could throw in some small brass screws

that seemed to work really well but it took a few repeated steps to get there but this was on Acorn nuts that were exposed to weather for 60 + years.



BTW packaged headed your way soon

Be sure not to try this with the bulbs, just the sockets