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I’m not sure about the horns. I am more concerned with the eggs as it looks like the gold plating would peel as time goes by. I’ll have to look at my horns.
I HAVE A PINK LAP WITH THE SAME PROBLEM. I KNOW THIS IS A SHOT IN THE DARK BUT DOES ANYONE THINK THAT PUTTING A LITTLE CLEAR NAIL POLISH MAY HELP TO SEAL THESE AREAS OF TARNISH? I KNOW IT’S KIND OF A HOME REMEDY BUT I DON’T WANT THE TARNISH TO SPREAD AND UNDERMINE THE REST OF THE HORN. THERE IS ALSO A DARK SPOT ON THE OTHER HORN WHICH I FEAR IS THE SAME THING STARTING. I HAVEN’T READ A SOLUTION THREAD — IF THERE IS CAN SOMEONE LET ME KNOW 🙄 ….THANKS A BUNCH
Nail polish may crack and discolor over time. What we do is clean the area first (scrape powdery stuff off with a toothpick if i’ts gotten that bad) then lacquer the horn. I don’t know what brand we use.
While I was cleaning my dragons yesterday evening I noticed my Sunrise Lap dragon has a green streak on one horn. >.< 😥 Can windstone replace horns or is that question thats already been asked?
Sechan wrote:While I was cleaning my dragons yesterday evening I noticed my Sunrise Lap dragon has a green streak on one horn. >.< 😥 Can windstone replace horns or is that question thats already been asked?
If your dragon is MISSING a horn, you can email Susie and ask for another one-but its almost impossible to remove a horn without damaging the sculpt-on anything but an already damaged piece, personally I would NOT try it. :negative: I’d try cleaning it somehow or covering up the horn.
Pam Thompson wrote:Nail polish may crack and discolor over time. What we do is clean the area first (scrape powdery stuff off with a toothpick if i’ts gotten that bad) then lacquer the horn. I don’t know what brand we use.
John says clear nail polish would work. Like the stuff you put on hawk’s claws.
Moonshadow Magick wrote:I HAVE A PINK LAP WITH THE SAME PROBLEM. I KNOW THIS IS A SHOT IN THE DARK BUT DOES ANYONE THINK THAT PUTTING A LITTLE CLEAR NAIL POLISH MAY HELP TO SEAL THESE AREAS OF TARNISH? I KNOW IT’S KIND OF A HOME REMEDY BUT I DON’T WANT THE TARNISH TO SPREAD AND UNDERMINE THE REST OF THE HORN. THERE IS ALSO A DARK SPOT ON THE OTHER HORN WHICH I FEAR IS THE SAME THING STARTING. I HAVEN’T READ A SOLUTION THREAD — IF THERE IS CAN SOMEONE LET ME KNOW 🙄 ….THANKS A BUNCH
Wash the area that is tarnished with water,get as much discoloration off as you can ( alcohol will work too, but may damage the dragon if it gets on her) then paint it over with clear nail polish. Unfortunately we glued the eggs in with epoxy so it would be nearly impossible to replace the egg .
Sechan wrote:While I was cleaning my dragons yesterday evening I noticed my Sunrise Lap dragon has a green streak on one horn. >.< 😥 Can windstone replace horns or is that question thats already been asked?
Wash it well with water, dry completely then cover the area with clear nail polish.
Barrdwing wrote:Oh dear. This looks rather like the problem with the OW horns that was discussed in another thread. Since both the horns and the eggs are electroplated in gold, my guess would be that there’s a glitch at the company that’s been doing the electroplating. 🙁 I just went and looked at my brown Coiled Mum and I’m afraid her egg has a couple of corroded spots too. I had been thinking that this was a fairly recent problem, but there’s also a 1mm green spot on the horn of my BG Lap, and I got her fairly early on in the run of that color. Also, I know she didn’t have that spot when we lived in the desert, and we’ve only lived in this more humid area a couple of years. I really wonder if humidity aggravates the problem.
Electroplating is such a fiddly process, and Lord knows if there were even a tiny gap in the plating then the underlying metal would cheerfully corrode over time. I wish I knew what I could do to delay the process, though! We can’t exactly move back to the desert . . . much as I miss my sand and creosote bushes.
The treatment for horn rot: wash the spot well and dry , coat with clear nail polish. We would happily replace any bad pewter, but it isn’t good to try to remove the pewter piece from the dragon, it could cause a lot more damage!
We have no idea how many of these bad pewter pieces went out before we caught the problem, since it can show up YEARS after the piece was sold. 🙄Pam Thompson wrote:Melody:
I would be worried about the nail polish cracking or discoloring over time.Nail polish IS lacquer, so it should be the same stuff as what we use on the horns now, to prevent horn rot.
Be sure what you are using is old fashioned, solvent-based nail polish, not some macrobiotic, whole wheat, organic, eco friendly stuff made out of soybean oil .Pam Thompson wrote:Ok. I know the colored nail polishes will discolor.
No, don’t use colored nail polish.
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