My silver plated faucet turned pink when my SO used Brasso to clean it. I’m guessing the abrasive wore off the silver and revealed the brass. I came across this alleged silver replating solution:
http://www.metalbrite.net/page/228960203
Can anyone vouch for the scientific validity of this stuff? I’m guessing there is a reason that silver is typically electroplated, but is this liquid a reasonable hack? Thanks.
What happens when you mix silver nitrate with copper wire
I’ve never used silver brite, but if conditions are right you can get a nice shiny silver covering on copper or brass objects by soaking in silver nitrate.
You can also get a nice copper coating on almost any other metal (other than silver, gold, and a few other precious ones) in much the same way. I once left a bunch of corroded pennies in a vinegar solution overnight to clean them, and threw in a nickel, too. When next I checked it, the nickel was copper-plated.
Your faucet almost certainly wasn’t silver plated. Nickel or crome-plated perhaps.
Yes it was. And I have to say that the stuff worked like a miracle. Saved a mightly expensive faucet.