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Default Spring ring battery cables

What is the best way to "Clean" NOS battery cable. I'm talking about the spring ring head

that attaches to a battery. The head part is clean but faded and want to bring back to new

looking.

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some of that mag wheel cleaner may work? baking soda?
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How about vapor blasting instead of glass bead? Will baking soda bring back to new finish?

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That’s an original!! I’d leave it as is. As soon as you go messing with the finish, it may never look original again.
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I would leave that alone also.
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Maybe try one of the above suggestions on the side that goes against the battery, that way if it messes it up you'll never see it once installed.
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Maybe try one of the above suggestions on the side that goes against the battery, that way if it messes it up you'll never see it once installed.
The positive cable looks new, so to put the negative cable on looking like it's 50 years old, just won't look right. We will see what happens when I get that far... really close now.

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I had a distributer done at a vette resto shop, I believe he used walnut shells to blast it, it just cleaned it up, it looked great.
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With lead you could use a tooth brush and some comet or bar keepers friend powder polish or even baking soda, which would neutralize any acid too.
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