HOW TO CLEAN ANTIQUE BOTTLES! The Easy Way! Remove Stuck On Stains!
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- How to clean your old antique bottles the easy way! You do not need a bottle tumbler for this method of cleaning! It's pretty much a set and forget method! No effort is required!
This method will remove stuck on dirt, oil, rust and stains that you cant remove from your bottles!
This cleaning method will cost around $20 and wont break the bank! Hope this will help anyone in their search to clean stuck on stains from old antique bottles that you have found!
If anyone else has any other methods feel free to share them in the comments below! - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
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So I ordered Super Clean off Amazon and it worked great! Much better than anything else I’ve ever tried. I had some black tar inside the one and it came right out! Thanks for the tip.
Great to here!! Glad I could help!
If you have bottles with hard to get to corners that a brush simply cannot reach, I've had great luck with pouring a tiny bit of aquarium gravel into the bottle, adding a bit of liquid cleaner or water and then just swishing the bottle back and forth so that the gravel contacts the dirty spots. Works well.
I grew up in northern Wisconsin across the street from an old bottle dump in the 60s and 70s. We were quite poor, so the bottle dump was our playground. I still have some of the bottles that we dug up as kids and I am going to use the Super Clean and your techniques to get them cleaner. And interestingly enough, my husband and son in law tore the front steps off of our daughter's 100+ year old home today and found a ton of old bottles. I just shared your video with her so she can clean those bottles up and enjoy them. A great, big THANK YOU to you.
Love using the drill idea to clean inside of bottles! Thanks!
No problem! Work really well on all jars! 😄😄
Good video Going to try that. Thank you!!!
Great instructional video! I’ll have to give that product a try aa soon as the hardware stores open again. I have also been using oxalic acid for cleaning glass insulators for years and wonder if it would work just as well for this. Thanks, ATB and happy digging!
Great video - love the idea with using the drill - definitely going to try that!! Very helpful - thanks!! 🙂👍
Never saw your comment for some reason...! If you tryed it out O hope it worked out for ya!!
LOVE THE DRILL IDEA❤️
Thanks 😄😄 it works quite well to get some stuck on debris off some bottles!! Glad you like the idea!
Super helpful! It worked on a couple of bottles I was having a hard time with. Thanks.
Awesome to hear that the video helped you out! 😄😄 Glad it got some bottles cleaned up for ya!
Thanks so much, this worked like a charm. My local Harbor Freight had this product. I only left it for about an hour and it cleaned most of the the bottles I soaked. Letting the bad ones sit overnight. I dug 100 old bottles out of an old city dump that was uncovered when they razed an old tobacco barn in my town. Glad to be able to get them clean. Harbor Freight has a pack of bottle brushes for $5 as well.
Awesome to hear! 😄😄 Glad I could help get some bottles looking new again!! 😄
Thank you Adam definitely will try it
No problem! Should get some good results from it! I clean all my bottles with it! 😄😄
Thanks for the video! I was out at one of my favorite fishing spots and came across piles of antique bottles partially exposed along the embankment. Collected a bunch but had no idea on how to get them sparkling again. Had no idea antique bottle graveyards even existed until I came across one.
Glad the video helped ya out 😄😄 And depending on what end of the world you are in they are more common or uncommon in spots!! Keep an eye out when you're out and about, never know what you'll find!! 😄😄
@@Adventurous4Life Honestly, since the fish weren't biting, I turned to rock hounding for geodes when I stumbled across them. Super cool find! Appreciate the advice!
Lol that's awesome 😄 never know what you'll stumble across out there! 😄
Thank you! Really Great info!!!
You're welcome! Glad you found this helpful! 😄😄 That's why I made it!
Ooo thank you! I’ll be trying this!
It works wonders! 😄😄 Pretty much every bottle I clean gets the super clean treatment! 😄😄
Thanks, great tip!
Glad ypu liked them! Hope they helped you out a bit or gave u some ideas!! 😄😄
Thank you! I'm going to try the super clean. I love the drill technique, thats great haha. I'll prob do that too.
Lol no problem! It works great for cleaning bottles! Low effort too. Glad the video helped you out! 😄
Awesome video mate oven cleaner also a good way of cleaning them thanks for shearing 👍👍👍👍👍
Would have never thought of oven cleaner.. that would smell a tad to much for me lol! But i guess would take everything off the bottle lol!
That was great! Thank you so much for the tutorial!!
Hope it helps in cleaning some of your finds!
@@Adventurous4Life I'm sure it will! With this stay at home order I've been wanting to clean my bottles for something to do and now that I know what to use I'm gonna give it a go 👍
Thank you so much.
No problem! Ive seen lots of other videos with odd methods that require lots of manual work or are expensive. So thought I'd show ky easy low effort approach lol.
I’ve used CLR but it takes more scrubbing so I’ll try your Super Clean. Can’t wait. Thanks!
No problem! Ive hurd lots of people using CLR never used that myself. For getting rust off things I've hurd it works great. Glad this video might help you out!
Thanks dude! Best video I could find.
Glad I could help! 😄😄 Only method that dosnt requre tumbling or lots of work to clean bottles. Nice and easy! 😄
@@Adventurous4Life exactly. cheers!
Good tips. I just started using copper bb's and they work great too. Even for cologne bottles that are really hard to clean.
Glad you liked the tips! I haven't ever trued copper pellets, to much effort shaking the bottle around lol 😄 This way is just a set and forget! My kinda style 😄😄
First Bottle Cleaning Video I Watched, (Besides a quick minute Vid-on using denture tablets..) and this was Video Perfect!!! Thanks For The Excellent Advice My Man!👍😉🇨🇦
No problem! Hope it helps you out! Stuff works like a charm! 😄
Nice work🍾 bottles turned out awesome, liked the flat one with the air bubble in it☺
Easiest way of cleaning bottles with minimal work lol!
I knew you would have a few tricks up your sleeves☺
Appears to work well, I picked some up to try, I also use Super Iron Out for really stubborn rust staining, works very good as well. Thanks for the tips Adam.
Np! Why I made the video, give people some tricks they might not know! I find super clean takes out rust super well and it's the only cleaner I use!
Thanks for this video. Very nicely done! I subscribed!
Glad it helped! One of the fastest and easiest methods Ive seen. Worked well for me so Definitely needed to share it! 😄😄 Thanks for the sub as well!
Great hack with the drill! New sub from the UK
Lol thanks! 😄😄 Hope you found it helpful 😄 Thanks for subscribing! We try to have a new video out every Friday!
I ordered a jug of Super Clean online, I am in the states and couldn’t find it at any of my local hardware stores. Anyway it arrived & I followed your instructions... It works great! I was concerned that maybe the active ingredients would be different in the U.S. due to federal regulations, but apparently not the case- It did the job!! It even cleaned some badly stained bottles I had in the garage for ten years; thanks for the tip & the demonstration video!!
Great to hear!! Glad you were able to get some online too. Its cool knowing this video has been able to help people in the hobby, or just in general! Happy cleaning :p
Thanks for purchasing Super Clean, Paul! It is also available at Automotive retailers, Walmart in the automotive section and Walmart.com. You can find the store nearest you by visiting our Store Locator at superclean.com/locate-a-store. Thanks again!
Great video
Those sure cleaned up beautifully! I'll have to look for the US equivalent of Super Clean. Great info! Take care, it's great to see you!😊
Great to make a video again! Jay was out today at a old place and he found our first ginger beer but sadly broken! I hope to have the video out Friday or next week! Snows almost all gone!
Looks like I'll be picking up some Super Clean. The snow is pretty much gone down here so I'm heading out next weekend ☺
@@danq.5140 cheapest method I found and has minimal effort involved lol
Baby bottles has a nice collection of brushes also.
Ive never looked in that section of store before! Ill have to give them a look after this crazy stuff settles down!
Thank you
Glad this video help! Hope it can get some of your bottles looking great!
I'm amazed anything can come out clean in such a filthy sink!
Lol!! 😄😄 The sink's dirty cause the bottles are clean lol!
He's cleaning bottles.
Not your pacifier.
Awesome! Thanks for the how do Video, really helpful.
Glad it helped! Hope you can get any bottles you have looking nice and clean for displaying!
@@Adventurous4Life well today i began cleaning an old Listerin bottle and I was scrubbing it with the green felt pad under warm water when all of a sudden the glass cracked in my hand. I have no idea what caused that. Very odd.
Ohhhh, so when you're cleaning old bottles temperature change to the glass is bad! Hot to cold, cold to hot. If the bottle is rather cold and you run warm or hot water over it can shock the glass and cause it to crack!
When ever im cleaning old bottles I try to get the tap water to room ish temperature! Antique glass can be very finicky.
@@Adventurous4Life I had no idea.. Im bummed that it happened but I leaned something new. Even though it was cool vintage Listerin bottle I'm lucky I had only paid a dollar for it. Thanks again for the info. Learn something new everyday.
Thank you 😊
Hope it helped 😄
Yes I saved it so I could remember it all thank you again 😊❤
Thankyou❤
Glad this video helped you out! 😄😄
Impressive. I've never heard of that cleaner.
It's a great bottle cleaner. Set and forget method too! Not much effort goes into using it 😄😄
That's a cheaper trick than I have. I always use spartan toilet bowl cleaner, with acid in it. I'll have to try your way it sounds cheaper than my way. Thanks for the idea. Great video.
Ive seen lots of videos on cleaning bottles but some are expensive or just time consuming/labour intensive lol. So glad this one might save u some money. It's tryed and true for me!
Thank you!! 👍
I take it you like this method lol! Works very well for me and is low effort too 😄😄 Hope it works for you as well!
@@Adventurous4Life I am going to buy some and clean them.
Sounds good! Should get them nice and clean for ya! Have fun cleaning 😄😄
I use beach sand and water. Funnel feed the sand in the bottle add a little water and shake until clear/clean.
I've hurd lot of people using a method like that! Just takes to much effort when you have a bunch of bottles to clean! This is an easy set and forget method that requires low effort lol!
I finally decided to clean two amber growler jugs that have been sitting for probably two decades. One of them still got a screw cap on. I'm planning to use them for homemade alcoholic beverages. Do you have any tips or word of caution for me? I'm really worried of anaerobic microorganism in there; assuming the screw cap holds really well this whole time. Also, can amber glass be stained if I use particular cleaner/chemicals for cleaning the inside? Thank you.
Really great video, by the way. I learned a lot from it. Never knew that degreaser can be used for cleaning bottles. Cheers!
Thank you !
There are so many darn products out there ! You saved me a lot of time
Also I appreciate the advice on cloudiness Again , you saved me time & effort I guess I’m going to need a tumbler
Super Clean it is !
You're welcome 😄😄😄 Anything to try and help people clean their bottles! I tryed loads of things before hand too. So this video can help people to clean there glass without having to try 1,000 different things!!
Fascinating that the material safety data sheet specifically says to avoid contact with glass. Wow, but does not say why. Ingredients are Sodium Metasilicate and Sodium Hydroxide. The first ingredient is an emulsifier and the second ingredient is lye. Strange advise to avoid contact with glass in that lye is often used to clean glass beaker ware. BUT this is a strong agent and gloves and eye protection would seem very prudent.
I never wear gloves with it but Im not soaking my hands in it and have minimal contact with it really. Somtimes it gets on your fingers for a bit but normally running the water and rinse it off right away. And even on the back it says to not us on glass lol. Id guess more window glass or glass objects like figures or displays? No clue but works great lol.
Perhaps we can shed a little light for you! You should avoid contact with untreated glass, make sure the surface is as cool as possible, and never let it dry. Doing so could leave a white residue that is difficult to remove. However, using the method that Adventurous 4Life uses, works great!
It is probably a safety tip, degreasers like that as correctly pointed out can leave residue on the surface of glass panes, also the guys at Super Clean probably want to be sure no one uses it as a degreaser for their jars at home or glasses which, without proper rinsing, will result in one eating Super Clean Jam or Super Clean Peanut Butter 🤣
Needless to say I think the people at the company decided for "better safe than sorry" 😁👍
Great video! Thank you for using Super Clean!
Well that's different, brands commenting lol! Well you got a good antique bottle cleaning solution that's for sure lol!
@@Adventurous4Life We just happened to find your video today and were thrilled to see how happy you were with the results. Thank you so much for doing it! Cheers!
@@SuperEasySuperFast I recommend it to anyone who asks about how I clean old glass. Best cleaner ive used. Your next marketing campaign could be around antique bottles lol! Just kidding 😂😄
@@Adventurous4Life :)
Wow ..... The people at Super Clean have a good social media mgr !
B r a v o ! !
I love your word "gink" !
Lol! Just one of thoughs works that doesnt exist, but works lol!! 😄😄
I've cut a bunch of copper wire scraps into gravel. Putting it into bottles & shaking is helpful. The extreme corners of handmade meds catch grains at times. "Chore Boy" brand dishwashing pads are wove copper, so good for scrubbing bottles-Not painted ones! Acid Magic cleaner is pretty good, but acidy-watch your hands & cuts. Construction supply stores have good stiff nylon brushes for cleaning out holes drilled in concrete. Various specialty tradesman's suppliers have varieties of specialty brushes-check them out.
Iv hurd lots of peole using copper pellets of some sort! Just find it lots of work, I'm lazy when it comes to cleaning lol! Ive also hurd toilet bowl cleaner wirks quite well also! I try to stay away from industrial chemicals lol! Im pretty set for brushes too!
@@Adventurous4Life I would occasionally pick up small pieces of heavier copper wire off the ground and cut them up, 6 or 10 inches at a time. I have about a half pint of this gravel now. Finding good digsites on a gentrifying island gets difficult. Hipster indifference has helped me get in the 1890s, but need to find areas missed by 70s-80s diggers.
@@tomfrazier1103 oh yes, finding undug areas is a pain around here too. Almost all early 1900s dumps have been dug back in the 70s! They missed lots back then too so always undug areas to find in the dug dumps!
@@Adventurous4Life Indeed they did. I found my first Hutch a Waialua at Waialua in an area said to have been hit with diggers who had earthmoving equipment in the 1980s. I used my screen and found some good stuff, a 1917 bicycle license and a 1915 Motor Cycle tag, the year the City & County of Honolulu started to issue vehicle tags. I also found my first Dr. Kilmers there. "Never dug out"?
Good too concerning the Super Clean. I plan to try it. Btw, your sink would look a lot better if you used some Super Clean on it. Thanks!
Lol 😄😄 That sink has pretty much had it, was my parents old washtub from the 80s lol!!
A million thanks for the aquarium brush tip and the powerclean! Good luck and happy hunting from Johnstown PA! Got a couple bottle videos myself maybe check em out and teach me something?
Hope these tips work out for ya man. Great videos to. Ill habe to watch more tomorrow after work! Best of luck cleaning your finds!
The aquarium brush on power drill chuck was excellent. So Im using a pneumatic lug bolt gun(used to remove tires) with a sturdy aquarium brush. It provides a hyperborean shine!! Power clear like
Mr. Cleans bald shiny head!. Thanks for sharing your techniques!
Lol! Now that's some torque!!
i love how you call it "gink"
in Australia we say "gunk"
Pretty much the same here too 😄😄 I think gink is actually a made up word lol!
I found a 1970 Mountain Dew bottle in my back yard buried but it was not broken at all and no scratches and I hope I can clean it well
It will for sure clean the inside really good! But if it's an applied colour label soda dont soak the label in it. It will destroy it! Only us super clean on the inside of the bottle to remove dirt suck there!
@@Adventurous4Life Ok thanks for the tips the label is not paper it’s like styrofoam but I’m not risking getting it wet.
Very helpful video. Using the drill is genius! How do you get rid the cloudiness or sickness from the glass tho?
Good to hear! When ever there is cloudiness in the glass that's hard water damage. Sadly the only way to get that out of the glass is to tumble it! You have to remove a layer of glass to get rid of it.
Does Super Clean work on hazy, cloudy glass bottles. Thanks , great types you have provided!
Sadly no. Sickness on the glass caused by hard water. To get rid of it you need to remove a thin layer of the glass by tumbling the bottle.
How would you do this with a 5 gallon glass carboy?
GREAT VIDEO !!!!
Glad you enioyed it! Hope it helps you out in cleaning any old glass you have!
BRIGHTO! BRIGHTO! makes old bodies new, we'll sell a million bottles!
This seems like just the thing to clean out the miscellaneous bottles I picked up from an estate sale. Though, I do have one question: is there a way to make sure these bottles are clean to a food-safe degree? The reason I’m asking is because they seemed to be drug/chemical and/or perfume bottles.
Not that I’m intending to use them for that, but I’d like the option. Either way, great video!
Honistly most bottles basically have nothing left in them from 100 years ago. To make them 'food safe' once you clean them I wash them out with soap and water! 😄 I make glasses outa broken bottles and after a good soak and wash I drink outa them. Just wanna do a soap and water wash really good first!
Glad you found the video helpful too!! 😄
Thank you so much for this video. I just bought 3 Schenley Whiskey Glass Bottles with Cork & Glass Stoppers. So pretty, I want to clean them and fill them to use again. I can't pull off the glass cork stopper 🥺 Could you offer any suggestions on how I can do this please and thank you so much.
Glad it helped! As for getting the glass corks out ive never really needed to do that. Might try putting it in the freezer to try shinking the seal a bit? Honestly not too sure!
Thank you, I'll try the freezer.
Could also try heating it up in a pot of water, but doing it slowly. If u dunk it in hot water u run the risk of cracking the glass. Heating it up slowly from cold-warm-hot might losen it up. But be careful with hot water and glass!
Super interesting video. I wonder if this substance would have utility in cleaning pot lids with the usual staining in the crazing?? Any experience with this or thoughts? Also I was amazed that you were not using gloves. No problem with skin? Cheers.
I use it to clean the car too. Works great. Gloves, I have never used with it no, doesn't irritate my skin. It's almost like spray nine but spray nine isnt as good of a cleaner. For bottles at least. Took me a bit of trial and error to figure out what cleaned bottles best.
Hi Scott - Yes! You can use it on pot lids as well. Make sure they are as cool as possible before cleaning and cold water works best. Then, make sure you rinse thoroughly afterwards. Please contact our Customer Service Department at 651-365-7590 if you have any other questions!
One small suggestion, shorten the lenght of that brush handle 😁
It is scary wobbly and a shorter handle would make it stiffer and easier to use as you would not have to fight off as much sideways movement as you are now.
It is mostly to improve comfort for your wrists and to avoid any chance of bottles and such slipping off your hand.
Btw if you add some sort of cork stop and shorten the brushes a little you could get it to fit in bottles as well, the cork could act as some sort of bearing preventing the steel handle from touching and maybe scratching the neck of the bottles.
I don't know if this helps, it is just a wierd idea that came to me watching your video 😅
Some good ideas! But i dont use the 'power brush' to often, lol! It would be a lot of effort for just a small time using it 😄😄
@@Adventurous4Life yeah probably the most sensible way to use the "Power Brush" (which is a damn fine tool name 🤣) is if you collect jars, that way when you reach like 20/30 jars you do them all in one go.
Btw if you are interested you should get some solid, relatively thick, copper wire, cut it in small bits and use it as you would salt to clean the inside of a bottle, basically just shake it around with water.
It can be reused A LOT of times, it can be basically free if you salvage it here and there and I've seen that stuff do what your degreaser does in a few days in a matter of 10/15 seconds of shaking with soapy water added.
Those cleaned up really well. I'm impressed.
I also see that you have a Missions Beverage bottle there. I have one as well, but am afraid to clean it up. The acl doesn't look like it's gonna stick. Did you try cleaning up your acl logo or was it pretty much clean when you got it ?
It was pretty much clean when I dug it! I use a used scour pad thats become softer to clean the labels. If you're looking for one I literally have a boat load of them! There's a video comming out soon we did that every foot u find one! Finally went back this year fo that dump lol. I could ship you one after all this virus stuff settles down if you like them?
@@Adventurous4Life Thanks, buddy, but I'm good. It caught my eye because I have only ever seen one and it is the one I found. I'll have to try to clean it up now that we're talking about it lol
@@Travelling..Bottle..Digger lol ok. Sounds good, hope it cleans up nicely!
@@Adventurous4Life I just hit it with some Barkeeper's Friend and the label held up fantastic. The writing up around the neck... not so well lol
@@Travelling..Bottle..Digger Nice! Hate when the labels flake off after digging them up.
Will this method work in old hobby paint bottles? The stains are sediment rings from slow evaporation and spilling over several decades. The slurry looked to be deteriorating old lead based paints(?) metals-petroleum based settle stain rings. Will this method work?
It might work? Never tried that! But if it can gwt out 100+ year old stains on glass it might work for the paint bottles!
I hope you have considered buying an external microphone. The quality would improve dramatically. Now when Adam is filming you can hardly understand what Jay is saying. Same with the camera on the tripod.
Otherwise I enjoy the shenanigans 😁
I do use an external Rode shotgun mic. It's just the angle of the camera that was giving me audio issues 😄😄 I use the shotgun mic so it points away from the dirt so you dont hear dirt moving around instead of our commentary lol!
Do you have any info on that bigger bottle with the bubbles in the glass!? I’m actually a commercial diver and I found a bottle almost identical to that one 70ft down in the sea bed of the puget sound. I’ve had it a few years and don’t know much about it besides it was post prohibition era?
If you're referring to the large aqua alchohol bottle it's from around 1900-1915. The one in the video has an applied top and most likely held wine or whiskey. Relatively common bottle but they come in a variety of colours!
@@Adventurous4Life that’s cool to hear. I’ve did a ton of research on my bottle but haven’t came up with anything. I have a small collection of about 10 bottles that I’ve found while diving. Majority of them being around 1915-1970s. The bottle I’m talking about is the the same shape and color as yours, the glass is rippley with bubbles in it, has a slight pearly sheen, I just noticed it has a screw top, and says “federal law forbids sale or re use of this bottle” on the side
It’s my most interesting bottle I think. Others are old beer bottles, ketchup bottle, vinegar, and an old milk bottle which is my second favorite!
@@Kyegar very cool, it's fun collecting bottles. But once you start it never stops lol!!
Now would it be safe to drink from these bottles? I’ve got a couple of old glass cups I found around dead horse bay recently and wanted to clean them for use
Lots of people do drinking glasses outa old bottles, as long as they are cleaned well and disinfected with soap and water after I cant see why you couldn't use them 😄
Do you have a suggestion on how to get the smell out of the bottle? I recently found an antique bottle from the 1800s while beach combing. The bottle has a very strong turpentine smell mixed with ocean water of 100 yrs. I've tried vinegar and bleach.
Ive had a few bottles like that with Tar, Oil, liniment etc still in them. Ive found that Super Clean will normally get rid of the stains and smells from them after sitting in them a bit! For smell u cluld also try toilet bowel cleaner as well!
@@Adventurous4Life thank you so much. I will try the toilet cleaner. This is my first find so if I find more then I will invest in the stuff you use.
Quick question i recently found 3 glass bottles in my backyard while i was letting my nephew help me diff for a new fence we are putting up they are pretty old tried searching up one and it showed it was from 1889 from a old company here in Los Angeles. Now i just don't know what to do with it so i was wondering what you do with all the bottles you find. Should i just keep it and save it ? Or ?
If bottles aren't your thing you could try posting them on various American bottle pages to see if theres any interest in them. Or you you start a little display in your house if you find them interesting! I use some bottles as vases and planters, maybe try that? It's really up to you if you like what you found!
Adventurous 4Life do you know any good websites i can look into ?
@@albert5624 best places to post them for sale are bottle groups on Facebook. Just search American bottle diggers and there should be a bunch of groups to look through!
How does it work on plastic tubs and chrome?
Never tryed it on that! So your guess is as good as mine!
I have a bootle with the only opening, about 2-3 mm only ! Having difficulty getting into the square bottom edges.
This stiff works great for bottles like that! Hope it can help you out cleaning it! 😄
I'm about to rinse it out ...@@Adventurous4Life
Can you use that on food grade bottles? I want to use my bottles for drinking.
UV bulbs like the ones I used kill bacteria, they are actually sanitizing bulbs. So you probably could. Just make sure to give them a soap and water clean after too!
After this how do you get it safe to drink out of.
After you get all the grime outa them a simple soap and water wash in the sink should do! If there's a large build up of calcium on the glass I wouldn't recommend it as it gives off an odd odor. But for the drinking glasses I make a good soap and water wash and I use them! 😄
is gink like a different word for gunk?
Pretty much lol 😄😄 just one of thoughs words! Basically just gross stuff 😄
Sounds like Columbus from zombieland lmaoo
Never been it lol. No idea if that's a good thing or a joke but ok lol! 😄
How do you find places you can find bottles? Or what exactly are they called? I’m moving back to the states in a year and really want to go find bottles. Thanks!!
Dumps, tips, refuge pits etc they can be called lots lol. When it comes to trying to find old bottle dumps theres no sure fire way. Its explore old areas or forgotten towns. If you can find a old area where u live drive around looking for old trails and try walking them. We have found a few places walking down old trails where towns used to be. Look for old mines logging camps mills etc. Then walk around the hush where they used to be! It can be hard but like i said theres no easy way to find a old dump
Adventurous 4Life thanks!!!
I have some vintage Pepsi bottles and one has a worn out logos, is there a way I can clean the logo on it without scraping it off?
It can be tricky to clean them. My best advice is to take a well used green scouring pad and lightly scrub the logo. You want to use a soft and degraded green pad as a brand new one is very rough and will end uo scrapping off the logo because its to course!
Thank you for the reply, I’ll be trying to see if I can restore these this coming week
Muratic acid will get rid of that hardness stain and rust , pretty much all shit comes off like magic!
Ive tryed it before, didnt have good results for me. Unless i got a bad batch. Left bottles totally submerged in it for literally 4 months as i forgot about them in a bucket ouside (with a lid). Literally nothing came off them and had to superclean them to great effect later.
No idea id i did somthing wrong but with thoughs results and having to wear a respirator and thick gloves with it, i cant say it's any good...
So what does dropped $10 mean?
The worst to clean with. If you want to clean glass use muratic acid
100% muriatic acid is great to clean with. But Super Clean is just a method that works great too and not as dangerous of a liquid!
wouldn't baking soda and vinegar with hot water also work?
Ive tryed that before. Didnt have the best effect on most bottles. It makes some stains easier to scrub off but not off completely like super clean 😄
Hello, I tried this on amber bottles (the kind that essential oils come in/that are used as spray bottles). I left them completely submerged in Super Clean (3 parts water, 1 part Super Clean) for 5 days. Can degreaser damage glass if left in contact for too long? Like half of them have a haze/fogginess that reappears immediately after wiping them off with glass cleaner. I think they're... etched? Or it looks like "sickness"? Not sure if those are the proper terms, but it looks like there won't be any easy solutions to get them clear again.
If there is a hase on them that's sickness yes! Its hardwater built up on the glass. Only way to remove it is to remove a layer of the glass through tumbling.
For a easy fix you can us baby oil on the inside of the bottle to hide it.
Sickness on bottles really sucks but there's no easy way to remove it
@@Adventurous4Life Thanks for the quick response! But for cleaning bottles in the future, do you know if using Super Clean for too long can cause damage? I meant to only let them soak for 2-3 days but forgot about them. Or maybe amber is more sensitive to degreasers? We do have hard water where I live, but I didn't even use that - I diluted the Super Clean with distilled water. Also, after soaking them, I rinsed them off and ran them through the dishwasher, so, because they were wet when I transferred them, I don't even know if they had the haze prior to the dishwasher, but I ran them through the dishwasher PRIOR to soaking them in the Super Clean as well, and it didn't leave an irremovable haze.
Ive left super clean in bottles for months before 😂 i forget about a bottle begore and it has the cleaner in it for over half a year lol! It had begun to separate!
Never had an issue with it running any sort of glass before, including amber.
Personally I wouldn't put them through the dish washer, can run the risk of the cracking or even shattering! They aren't built for the hot that dishwashers us to clean new glass.
@@Adventurous4Life Okay, thanks! Other than possible cracking/shattering, do you know if it's possible for dishwashers to cause permanent damage like that (haze/sickness) to glass? Also, wouldn't it only be older bottles that would be more prone to damage in the dishwasher? The amber bottles I washed are only a few years old.
No idea! Never put them though the dushwasher before! I know my mom once put a Milk of Mag bottle and a madon jar in the dishwasher and they both came out in peices 😄😄
can these be used for drinking out of afterwards?
You could ya, just hand wash them with soap and water after! 😄
So what is a "tumbler" you refer to to get rid of the white stuff inside, I have old purple bottles with this and would like to clean them up
So a tumbler is a motorized device that 'tumbles' the bottle with abrasive powder and copper pellets to remove a layer of glass from a bottle. Normally takes a week or more of the bottle being in the device 24/7. Most pre built tumblers can cost upwards of 500-1000$. With exstra tumble containers costing exstra.
What about opening a bottle that has a stopper that’s cemented with some kind of material - and you can’t open it - what’s an organic way to open it?
The only thing that comes to mind is soaking it in warm water to try and loosen the cork. Other then that im not too sure. Never ran across that problem yet sorry!
I just came across this issue and ended up drilling through the cork and taking it out in pieces. Seemed to work well.
Good action plan! If it works it works! Ill keep that in mind if I come across this problem!!
I accidentally got the break cleaner version of super clean…would that still work for cleaning bottles?
Honistly I have no clue. Didnt even know they had a break cleaner in that brand! 😄
@@Adventurous4Life lol I guess I’ll have to try it out and see
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I take it this might have helped ya out 😄😄😄
Yes I’m found old bottles in excavation I’m plumber and try the clean for long time I have question you are in Canada because can’t funds the same bottle of super clean here in New Jersey USA with the logo off dangerous and I’m confused with the price from Walmart at 8 dollar for galón and another place for 20 dollar
Ya im in Canada! Im pretty sure the sell it in the USA as well. But at the hardware store here it runs at about $20 CAN 😄
Hard to tell how clean bottle is when you hold it above the sink with debris in it
After the bottles sat I showed them under the light with all the debris taken off resting at the bottom 😄😄 Super clean is a great set and forget cleaner! Lots of others have tried it with great results! I recommend trying it if you're having trouble with stuck on stains in your bottles! 😄
What's the tumbler? That's what I need!
Edit: Never mind, I live offgrid. And nobody got that kinda power.
Lol! Ya the motors and run time on them is quite expensive as well!!
@@Adventurous4Life have you tried the rice method?
Never hurd of it, lol!
Will the super clean ruin painted on labels .
Yes! Dont soak ACL bottles in it. The label will start to fade! If you're putting it inside the ACL bottle thats fine just dont submerge the label/entire bottle in the super clean!
@@Adventurous4Life ok thanks for the tips
@@cooldudexvi not a problem at all!
I'm going to buy that super clean
@@cooldudexvi glad I could help in finding somthing for u to clean your bottles with!
Were are your gloves?
Do you think any of these techniques or products could clean your sink ?
What’s gink?
I love that word...I figure it's akin to gunk.
Magic eraser pieces on a brush.
That could work indeed! Never tryed that before! 😄
Can we get a “gink” counter?
Lol, ya i know 😄😄 Maybe if I make another cleaning video Ill make a counter lol!!@
please define gink?
Lol. Ive been asked this before 😄 Gink can also be called Gunk and is just a build up of gross substances inside old bottles, lol!
A good sentence for it for content is; the kitchen rang hood was filled with gink and its vent didnt work anymore. Its just a word for build up of gross stuff, lol!!!
Nonono.... I am looking for ways to antiquify new bottles
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It can work good for oil stains somtimes, but can be hard to us when trying to clean out large bottles 😄
@@Adventurous4Life question - found an old Avon perfume bottle - Topaze . Still has perfume in it but no nozzle- how can I seal it or at least clear the old perfume in it .
Thanks for great tips and ways to clean old bottles I love collecting and finding old bottles. But it's driving me crazy to look at your sink i cant understand why one takes tme to clean bottles yet does the video in a dirty sink. I kept waiting for u to clean it to how does that not bug u.
No problem lol 😄😄 And this sink is pretty old lol! Lots of stains on it. And it just goes to show how much stuff goes through this sink 😄😄 the sink is really only for bottles, so just always stayed dirty lol!
Gunk not gink
Oh yes, I've been told this many times lol!! 😄 Just what my mind came up with lol!
So do you guys have or have access to a bottle tumbler?
Also, what about muriatic/hydrochloric acid? (pool PH adjuster/concrete etcher) I use it to etch minerals
We dont have a tumber sadly Ty. And a I like using this stuff cause its biodegradable and pretty cheap.
I get it. Maybe I need to build a bottle tumbler one day for you
gink
Lol, ya I know, not a real word 😄😄 But I still use it till this day lol!
Must be safe.... you're not wearing gloves!!!
Never had an issue! Although if you're working with it for a long time I recommend a respirator lol! 😄