# Polishing nickel **URL:** \ **Category:** Yo-Yo Mods and Maintenance\ **Created:** [April 3, 2016, 1:27am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/polishing-nickel/79920 "2016-04-03T01:27:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sweetwilliej](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/sweetwilliej/32/1388_2.png) [@Sweetwilliej](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Sweetwilliej)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 1:27am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/polishing-nickel/79920/1 "2016-04-03T01:27:10Z")
What polishing compound do you use to polish a nickel plated yoyo? I have mothers aluminum polish, will that work? ---
**Author:** ![jhb8426](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/jhb8426/32/631_2.png) [@jhb8426](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/jhb8426)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 3:28am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/polishing-nickel/79920/2 "2016-04-03T03:28:50Z")
Most any metal polish should work. My own preference is Neverdull. ---
**Author:** ![Sweetwilliej](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/sweetwilliej/32/1388_2.png) [@Sweetwilliej](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Sweetwilliej)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 11:30pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/polishing-nickel/79920/3 "2016-04-03T23:30:42Z")
The mothers aluminum polish worked like a dream. ---
**Author:** ![French](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/french/32/70748_2.png) [@French](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/French)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 1:35am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/polishing-nickel/79920/4 "2016-04-04T01:35:50Z")
I used Mother’s Aluminium Polish on my MarkMont Classic, it got rid of the tarnish. This is what David from One Drop recommended when I asked him. ---
**Author:** ![Chobysauce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Chobysauce](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Chobysauce)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 4:04am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/polishing-nickel/79920/5 "2016-04-04T04:04:48Z")
While sitting on the carpet in that picture, that yoyo looks like it’s going really fast. ---
**Author:** ![Morgoroth](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/morgoroth/32/795_2.png) [@Morgoroth](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Morgoroth)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 9:28pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/polishing-nickel/79920/6 "2016-04-19T21:28:28Z")
Anyone know if silver Polish would work. ---
**Author:** ![dirty\_birdy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/dirty_birdy/32/299_2.png) [@dirty\_birdy](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/dirty_birdy)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 1:12am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/polishing-nickel/79920/7 "2016-04-20T01:12:19Z")
Silver tarnish is actually silver sulfide, and silver polish is designed to remove the very thin layer of silver sulfide, leaving a fresh, untarnished surface of silver. Tarnished nickel is primarily an oxide, so I would not expect a silver polish to have much of an effect on tarnished nickel, unless it contains abrasives. Nickel will tarnish in the presence of a sulfur-rich environment, but it is much less reactive with sulphur than is silver. As David of One Drop says, get Mother’s Aluminum Polish…I’ve been known to have a few nickel plated yoyos, and have only used Mother’s on a couple of them to brighten them up. Fortunately, most of my nickel yoyos do not tarnish! 🙂 db ---
**Author:** ![kevinm](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/kevinm/32/697_2.png) [@kevinm](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/kevinm)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 1:27am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/polishing-nickel/79920/8 "2016-04-20T01:27:09Z")
Polish that comes in a tube, like Mother’s and Simichrome, do a great job, but they are more abrasive than you need for shining up your yoyo so use them sparingly. Nevr-dull works great and is gentle, but it stinks and may cause flashbacks if you were ever in the Navy. There is a product called Cape Cod metal polishing cloths that you can get that is inexpensive and works a lot like Nevr-dull, and it smells like vanilla cookies, completely flashback free… ---
**Author:** ![Morgoroth](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/morgoroth/32/795_2.png) [@Morgoroth](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Morgoroth)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 1:30am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/polishing-nickel/79920/9 "2016-04-20T01:30:47Z")
> [@kevinm](#): > > Polish that comes in a tube, like Mother’s and Simichrome, do a great job, but they are more abrasive than you need for shining up your yoyo so use them sparingly. Nevr-dull works great and is gentle, but it stinks and may cause flashbacks if you were ever in the Navy. There is a product called Cape Cod metal polishing cloths that you can get that is inexpensive and works a lot like Nevr-dull, and it smells like vanilla cookies, completely flashback free… I don’t know, vanilla cookies could cause some flashbacks from that Hansel and Grettle documentary I saw. ---
**Author:** ![Grendel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/grendel/32/92975_2.png) [@Grendel](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Grendel)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 9:58pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/polishing-nickel/79920/10 "2016-04-20T21:58:54Z")
I like tarnish, builds character.