Cleaning Vintage Jewellery with an Ultrasonic Cleaner: Kunphy 2023 Unboxing, Review & Test!

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A look at cleaning vintage silver and costume jewellery using an ultrasonic cleaner, the Kunphy 2023 600ml. What effect will it have on cleanliness, tarnish and will it ruin costume jewellery? Let's find out together as we test it with very dirty, gunky stud earrings, tarnished silver and a variety of costume jewellery.
00:00 Setting up the Kunphy ultrasonic cleaner
3:05 How can you clean dirty stud earrings?
8:32 How can you clean vintage silver jewellery?
13:52 Can you clean costume jewellery in an ultrasonic?
21:40 Kunphy ultrasonic cleaner review
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Пікірлер: 29

@annepresuel444 2 ай бұрын

This was awesome to watch. Thanks for sharing!

@jewelrescue 2 ай бұрын

I’m so glad you liked it, thanks for watching! There’s a link in the description to my ‘ultimate’ cleaning guide if you’d like to see more (I look at many types of jewellery cleaning in that one) 💕♻️

@cholericmelancholic3599 7 ай бұрын

Definitely would be interested in the ultimate cleaning guide. I was horrified when I looked at some of my butterflies through a loup - the gunk is revolting, I found soaking them overnight in rubbing alcohol helped loosen and then used a toothpick worked the best. I vowed never to buy butterfly backs ever again though! I have a rhinestone necklace set in 925 silver I need to clean but found a few bits online saying categorically not to soak in water as it gets behind the stones and discolours the mirror backing. I have found heavily tarnished stuff comes up a treat using the tin foil/ bicarb/ hot water method but I bet most people would think that too harsh and a big no no - I looked at the pieces through a loup and couldn't see any particular damage after doing so... it was worth the risk as it had been abandoned for a couple of decades & would've had to be tossed anyway, one set of art nouveau style earrings with onyx in - I decided to keep myself!

@jewelrescue 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing your cleaning experience too! I was quite embarrassed about the state of those backs 🙈 glad I’m not the only one! Your rhinestone set sounds lovely. I’ll be sharing a special cloth I use in the guide video, maybe that will work for that set?!

@cholericmelancholic3599 7 ай бұрын

excellent, thank you :-) will look forward to hearing about the cloth in your upcoming video. It's a Jay Flex piece with champagne coloured rhinestones with topaz accents, I love it! @@jewelrescue

@lizziandlewy8803 7 ай бұрын

Hi Cat, I like the way it brightened the stones on the lizard. 🦎The final result is impressive. Thanks for sharing! 🤗 🩷✌️

@jewelrescue 7 ай бұрын

It really did a good job, I wish I’d got one sooner 😂

@NailsJamieBeeReSeller 7 ай бұрын

Woo hoo needs this video!! 😊❤

@jewelrescue 7 ай бұрын

Who’s woo hoo?!

@lizziandlewy8803 7 ай бұрын

😂😂

@VintageVariety 7 ай бұрын

Congratulations on 1k subscribers 😊❤❤❤

@jewelrescue 7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much 🎉🎉🎉

@KellyC77 7 ай бұрын

Definitely interested in the guide for cleaning 😊. This machine looks good

@jewelrescue 7 ай бұрын

Great! I’ll try my best to get it filmed in December, it just needs a bit of planning 🫧🧽💍💎

@WaltaSmede 7 ай бұрын

This is very interesting. Thank you very much! Would love to see more videos on cleaning. I'd really like to get one for myself but would be careful to put anything with foil back rhinestones in there because of the water. That gold piece came out very nicely! Also, great that it helped remove the silver tarnish!

@jewelrescue 7 ай бұрын

Yes you’d have to keep foil backed away from it. This was a good experiment, I’m looking forward to trying more in it!

@TheStormChasingVeterinaryNurse 7 ай бұрын

Just been to Aldi, and they had jewellry ultrasonic cleaners for sale. I thought of you as reminded me of this video. No idea if it's any good.

@jewelrescue 7 ай бұрын

Ooh, I’ve started a trend already 😂😂

@TheStormChasingVeterinaryNurse 7 ай бұрын

@@jewelrescue 😂

@TheStormChasingVeterinaryNurse 7 ай бұрын

Gotta love an ultrasonic cleaner! Satisfying to see the jewellery come out gleeming. I'm surprised that you can put them in loose. The ones we use at work have a basket to put the instruments in.

@jewelrescue 7 ай бұрын

Yes I’ve seen them before with baskets but there was something quite satisfying about using the tweezers 😂😂 do you have to put a special liquid in or do you sterilise separately? I think I’ll still need to sterilise earring hooks after a clean and dry.

@TheStormChasingVeterinaryNurse 7 ай бұрын

@@jewelrescue we add an enzymatic cleaner to the water. If really soiled, we soak the instruments in this first, and scrub them, before putting in the ultrasonic cleaner. Rinse, then soak in a cold sterilising solution, rinse, then bag up and autoclave.

@jewelrescue 7 ай бұрын

@@TheStormChasingVeterinaryNurse wow, what a process! 💕

@gill8779 7 ай бұрын

I would touch that ring up with a silver pen, it would look like new.

@jewelrescue 7 ай бұрын

I remember you mentioned this before and I couldn’t find one - what are they called? 💕

@theverandafilesheidrun 7 ай бұрын

I don't think that ultrasonic works well on silver tarnish. My experience is that it works best on the typical slightly gunky non-precious metal costume jewelry. And always rinse in clear water after the ultrasonic.

@jewelrescue 7 ай бұрын

Ooh thanks for the tip! I did find the tarnish really easy to remove after a cycle in the machine so that was a bonus. Thanks for watching 🥰

@Sanpat-OZ2 7 ай бұрын

Ultrasonic cleaners work on Gold not silver!

@jewelrescue 7 ай бұрын

This one doesn’t specify particular metals, it says it’s a versatile cleaner for jewellery, watches, glasses, dentures and coins! It didn’t remove the silver tarnish of course but it did make it very easy to wipe off with a silver cloth 💕