Ah. Well then if you are getting those results there must be, as Marshall said, an oil based residue. Heat or a good oil degreaser should do the trick. Heat will burn it off, the degreaser will wash it off.
I've manipulated silver via many means and never ever put a lubricant on, but then I'm more into 'hand work'. Your jeweler may have done it the fastest way, which was probably by a machine that by oiling, made the process easier for him. But none of the lubricant should have embedded itself into the silver, so once cleaned you should be good to go. Please let us know how it turns out. Samala, Renee -------Original Message------- The reason for suspecting lubricant is that I dont expect anything other than silver to be present. Since we know lubrication was involved that's the reasoning. As for the brewing, I get almost wax type stuff coming off the wire and makes the water opaque and dirty I am aware of the ion cloud but this is not that , after swapping the electrodes for the commercially bought silver electrode everything was as expected This really irked me since I was very new to brewing cs and assumed it was something I was doing wrong!
