How do I clean exterior brass hardware?

I have a bunch of solid brass exterior stuff around my house, and a few things are getting painted after it warms up tomorrow. Kickplate, sweep, threshold, old school door handles and locks, and the deadbolt locks. They have a petina (OD green), but some parts are bright green (mint green), and there is paint in a few spots from when the doors were painted last.

I tried a bunch of shite I had laying around the house. Magic eraser, barkeeper's friend, goof off, brake parts cleaner, steel wool, ketchup, etc. Barkeeper's Friend seemed to work pretty well. Ketchup worked second best, but the fricking dog wouldn't stop staring at me and licking the ketchup that was slinging everywhere.

I still can't get the edges well, the paint is still on there, and there are still dark brown and green spots on them that I want off.

I am looking for something I can soak them all in so I don't have to do all of this GD work. It needs to take off the paint and make the brass uniformly bright, while not getting all up in everything and damaging stuff like the door handles and the locks. Would Brasso do both of those?

I was just gonna wet sand it with the palm sander as a last resort, but I'll save that for later tonight when I get pissed off.


I would just get all new shite, but it is a solid wood door, and the kickplates sit recessed into it, and the doorknobs are the old, big arse kind that I'd have to get a new door to swap out. They are from the 20s, and I like them.