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Fred Page

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I've badly stained a stainless steel sink by using Domestos toilet cleaner (in error) and am wondering how to recover the original polish? Anybody any ideas?
Fred.
 
Ordinary (Domestos) chlorine bleach does ours OK. Also removes stains from SS tea sets etc but it can damage low grade SS by attacking impurities - leading to leaking teapots.
 
My wife did that to our sink so I spent a couple of hours with a scotch brite pad.

Bleach isn't recommended for SS it says so on the label.

Pete
 
As most males know, the only "real" stainless steel is the stuff used in public trough-style urinals. But it's not shiny.

The shiny stuff, ironically, isn't as immune to corrosion, but is deemed domestically more acceptable.

My company had a darkroom (nasty chemicals) which had a truly stainless sink, which wasn't shiny, but we skimped
and put a domestic SS draining board in the room too. It was nicely red/brown in a fortnight.

Bugbear
 
Get some 'bar keepers friend' from the supermarket. (in the cleaning aisle).
Works a treat for bringing stainless back to life.

All the best.
Adam.
 
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