What to do about tarnished metal necklace?

[Wigeon]

My metal (non silver) necklace was getting tarnished, and I’ve made it worse by putting it in silver dip cleaner! I’ve then tried lemon juice, and vinegar, but neither has worked. Any ideas about how to get the tarnish off, or is it ruined?

First pic shows the tarnish, second pic shows the catalogue picture of the necklace and how it’s meant to look (it’s from Phase Eight).

I managed to remove some tarnish by 'marinating' a necklace in tomato sauce for a couple of hours. You could try this, although without knowing what the metal is I can't guarantee it won't ruin the necklace.

An amazing trick for silver is a piece of foil and the jewellery in a solution of soda crystals.... again no idea about non silver

Oh, and the tomato sauce process stinks to high heaven!

I use silver cleaning cloths from amazon on mine, built it would be a very fiddly job on that.
Lovely necklace though if you've got time to go over all of it bit by bit.

Well, it can’t be worse than it is, so I tried a small portion of it in ketchup and it definitely improved a bit, so have gone the whole hog and slathered the whole thing in ketchup. Thanks for the suggestion, ScreamingValenta.

Have done that thing where you put an old penny /2p coin in ketchup and it goes all shiny, so what could possibly go wrong, right?! I think the necklace cost about £25 (possibly on sale?), and I’ve had loads of wear out of it, so if it does ruin it I’ll be no worse off than currently, where it’s too tarnished to wear.

It looks like robot spaghetti in your pic

Hope it works!

Then what do you just wipe it off or wash it or what (have loads of no silver tarnished cheap crap jewellery).

I've recently been using Koh cleaner all round the house and one of the things it suggests using it on is jewellery. I put my diamond rings in a bowl of it, left for an hour and they were sparkling. Might work for silver? Actually, why don't I just try and report back?

Don't do the "fat coke" cures all tarnish trick.

The Astonish paste worked for one of mine

Let me know if ketchup works, all my metal necklaces are tarnished.

Would it be the vinegar in ketchup that works?

Am following this thread because of my necklace from Phase Eight is tarnished!

That's what I do for my silver jewellery. Line a deep dish with tinfoil, place silver jewellery on tinfoil, cover generously with bicarbonate of soda, pour boiling water on top, leave for a few minutes...hey presto, sparkling silver.

This is what I do and it definitely works!