Question about cleaning a diamond

[lilynoble]

Hello,
I have a 1.83-carat diamond set in platinum prongs and gold, and it feels secure. I usually clean it with a toothbrush and dish soap, but I recently visited a luxury jewelry store where they cleaned it with steam. I also read somewhere (or maybe I looked it up—can't remember, haha) that you can use an espresso machine's steam wand to clean your ring, provided you use tongs to hold it.

Is there any reason this might not be a good idea? Could it potentially damage the ring?

 

[WillyDiamond]

I would think steam, is steam is steam.
If you are adding water, try distilled water.
Good luck.

 

[MissGotRocks]

I have held diamonds over steam from a tea kettle with tongs. Honestly, if the diamonds are clean, it seemed to make no difference. Jewelry stores have those machines to help clean diamonds in settings that are rather gunked up. I don’t think it damages diamonds but I don’t like drastic temperature changes to my rings if avoidable.

 

[kenny]

Caution:
The steam from an espresso machine may come out with surprisingly great force, which may force the diamond ring fly out of the tweezers.

Before cleaning your ring, I'd first practice holding various other small objects like a small stone, or a ring that is not a gem setting.

I'd also practice how tightly to hold the object with the tweezers, by slowly gradually reducing how tightly the tweezers are squeezing the object till the object does fly out of the tweezers.

Better to damage some object than your diamond ring.

 

[glitterata]

This seems like a good way to burn yourself and drop your ring. What's wrong with the toothbrush-and-dish-soap method?

 

[TheDiamondXpert]

Hello,
I have a 1.83-carat diamond set in platinum prongs and gold, and it feels secure. I usually clean it with a toothbrush and dish soap, but I recently visited a luxury jewelry store where they cleaned it with steam. I also read somewhere (or maybe I looked it up—can't remember, haha) that you can use an espresso machine's steam wand to clean your ring, provided you use tongs to hold it.

Is there any reason this might not be a good idea? Could it potentially damage the ring?

Hi Lily Noble, We just finished answering a similar post a few minutes back. As advised, in the other post, our clients someimes (if short on time) grab hold of a toothbrush and fairy liquid and brush it against the diamond the ring. To date, we have not received any complaints in the past 3 decades.

There are numerous other ways we are sure but this method has worked well, with our clients.

 

[jeaniefish]

Hi Lily Noble, We just finished answering a similar post a few minutes back. As advised, in the other post, our clients someimes (if short on time) grab hold of a toothbrush and fairy liquid and brush it against the diamond the ring. To date, we have not received any complaints in the past 3 decades.

There are numerous other ways we are sure but this method has worked well, with our clients.

Ok, I have to ask….What is “fairy liquid”. I hope that no fairies are harmed in the process of making this stuff!

 

[Dreamer_D]

Ok, I have to ask….What is “fairy liquid”. I hope that no fairies are harmed in the process of making this stuff!

It’s a brand name for dish soap like Dawn, but in the UK!

 

[jeaniefish]

It’s a brand name for dish soap like Dawn, but in the UK!

Thanks for clarifying, We spent 3 wonderful years in Suffolk ( Bentwaters RAFB) but I don’t think I ever bought Fairy liquid at the Commissary.
I did ,however, learn the meaning of the term “ I’ll come round and knock you up” from one of my Orford neighbors!