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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MrNate, post: 2225752, member: 5515&quot;]I&#039;ve had my share of experiences with stubborn little marks on sterling. Here&#039;s what I&#039;ve adopted as best practice:</p><p><br /></p><p>I use silver cream with a q-tip and a lot of patience. I try to keep my pattern of rubbing in the same direction, so I don&#039;t start making a rubbing pattern in different directions (sometimes it&#039;s noticeable if you rub too hard or move against the pattern of the silver, circular for example). Sometimes it will take a great amount of time to rub away just one single dot, and it might appear that you aren&#039;t making progress. I&#039;ve encountered very few marks that can&#039;t be eliminated, it just takes patience.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have also found some marks after removal leave a calcified remain, and I haven&#039;t had much luck dealing with these.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have also experimented (on low quality pieces) with a dab of tarn-x on a q tip...I&#039;m sure I&#039;ll unleash the wrath of the forum if I recommend that, but I will say that for a few items I tried it on (basically lightly rubbing with a q-tip on the stubborn spot) it increased my speed to polish something and I didn&#039;t notice any difference between other pieces where I used the more labor intensive method. Personally I haven&#039;t adopted this method because tarn-x smells so terrible and I actually enjoy (for the most part) the long sessions bringing something back to life.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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