BRASSO is my FRIEND? What other things do use?

[Crispvs]

I would be inclined to avoid autosol myself, unless I wanted to walk around looking like a walking hall of mirrors. In any case, it seems unlikely that the Romans themselves had armour that shiny. It would be extremely difficult to achieve the level of shine autosol provides on something as large as a piece of armour. In any case, normal wear and the effects of the weather would quickly have reduced all that effort to a waste of time. It is more likely that they would have polished armour only as far as a 'satin' finish (assuming, that is, that they polished it at all, rather than using a rust proofing treatment such as browning or oil bluing) and a scotchbrite pad is fine for that. I use them myself. I know what you mean about the effort to get armour into rust free condition. I would normally take mine apart into its four sections before the start of the season and polish one section per day. After that, I would simply take the pad to any spots or patches of rust which then appeared over the season as and when necessary.

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