need help cleaning dirt out of bottles

[maxaviles1993]

I have lots of bottles and wanted to know how to get dirt out and clean the grime off it

 

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[mamabear]

I hope it's not the wrong info, but I have always used the denture cleaner tablets you drop in water & it desolves most grime away.

 

[AGirlGetsDirty]

get a good bottle brush, and dawn, that helped me clean my bottles. Please send some pics! I love when I find old bottles

 

[DeepseekerADS]

Oh YES!!! Brushes and Dawn, and old bottles thrill me just as much as a silver dime. I've never sold anything I found. There's another story to that end, but let's enjoy the thrill of finding something we like, whether others' think it is valuable or not. One of my treasures was a drug bottle with label intact from a local druggist dated 1938 found in an old abandoned house - worth nothing, but a forever keeper.

We live for memories and little delights, and this hobby gives it to us

But this post was about cleaning bottles.....

Bottle brush and Dawn....

 

[maxaviles1993]

Thanks for all the suggestions i will try all of them and if i can i will try and post pics but they are not that old so i don't know

 

[maxaviles1993]

How much is a bottle brush and where can i get one

 

[AGirlGetsDirty]

How much is a bottle brush and where can i get one

Maybe 4.99$ and I got mine at the supermarket

 

[maxaviles1993]

5.00 DOLLARS well guess im not getting one

 

[AGirlGetsDirty]

Ok, check the dollar store. I bought one to use on my radiators but it was too short. And then I was desperate to clean the bottles, and OMG!. I have a teeeny listerine bottle from the 30s that came with a cork back then. So I use all of my bottles to root plants as a decoration.

 

[maxaviles1993]

Ok i hope i cab fetal one for a buck or two

 

[stretchmodel]

maxaviles1993 When I clean my bottles I use a piece of green scothbrite pad cut to size of bottle and use a wire coat hanger and bend it around the pad. I also use some cheap household cleaner called "the works" Hope this helps Jim

 

[flyadive]

Take a handful of BB's and some Dawn soap, swirl it around in a vortex ! Takes a minute. Cleans without the brush! Throw away the media when done. The denture tablets sound promising? I'll have to try that one!
HH

 

[flyadive]

Max, did you try any of our remedies?

 

[Davers]

I,d just try many methods and find what works best.

 

[foiler]

Use powder dish washing machine soap. Fill a bucket with warm water, enough to completely submerge the bottle(s). Add about 2 heaping tablespoons of detergent to the bucket of water and agitate until dissolved. Put your bottle(s) in this solution and let soak over night. Remove, rinse and repeat as necessary.

 

[Produce Guy]

Put them in the dishwasher.

 

[foiler]

I don't advise putting old bottles in the dishwasher, it can get too hot and violent in them. Soaking them in the detergent is best. I recommend the powder over liquid because the surfactant in powder form is stronger which is what loosens dirt between surfaces.

 

[surf]

Put them in the dishwasher.

Please don't use the dishwasher on antique glass bottles. Pre 1940 glass that has been buried will often not survive the temperature extremes in modern dishwashers.

Cut copper wire (12-14 gauge,) a little water, with some Bar Keepers Friend, and some vigorous agitation works well for me as a simple cleaner. No amount of washing or scrubbing will remove the patination of glass sickness, or devitrification.

 

[AGirlGetsDirty]

Here are my bottles--an unknown, an old Dr Pepper, and old milk bottle, and a tiny Listerine bottle. I put plant cuttings in them

 

[cosmic]

dish soap and rice