Pat,
Here is a site that explains how the clock guys resilver faces. [
www.bhi.co.uk] I have used (label gone) a bottle of this silver chloride solution to resilver gauge faces of much larger gauges that I have restored. It works great on pennies too! Here is another site with an excellent treatise on resilvering [
www.davewestclocks.co.uk] .
The recipe for the resilvering solution is
1 part silver chloride
2 parts cream of tarter (potassium bitartrate)
3 parts common salt (sodium chloride)
An internet search may provide you with a source for the solution already made up.
(you must keep it in a light free environment till use.)
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