Cleaning stainless steel

[Sean Mc]

Another thumbs up for Barkeepers friend.....Asda sell i

-- Sean Mc

[EricP]

Same with meths in Boots.

"I have to ask what you want it for?"

"I'm going to drink it".

Out I go with it, and not another word. :))

(I must look rough!)

Hey-ho

[Andy Dingley]

Not to me they don't - I'm not shopping at Walmart!

[Frank Erskine]

I've had great results using Hagesan HG Steel Polish.

is quoted on the bottle, but I bought the stuff a few years ago...

[Stuart Noble]

I imagine most of what people would want to clean from decking wouldn't be iron stains, and most of the decking wouldn't be hardwood. So, what else is special about oxalic that it's sold as a cleaner for decking, the bulk of which is likely to be softwood?

[Sean Mc]

Then don't..........whats wrong with Asda / Walmart?????

Sea

-- Sean Mc

[John Schmitt]

Not a lot. It tends to lighten up grey weathered wood a bit, and disodium peroxydicarbonate is rather more effective, hydrolysing in water to give hydrogen peroxide. The only real way to properly restore the surface is with the traditional sailors prayerbook or bible. Nothing particularly religious, just blocks of stone, but using them got the sailors on their knees. Nowadays long-handled ones are supplied so you can remain standing.

John Schmitt

[John Schmitt]

[chemistry]

Bearing in mind that one was a university lecturer and the other a teacher, probably not too much. I believe I was six when my father did finally get a little tired of me asking too many questions and took me down to the local library and introduced me to the librarian, a kindly grey-haired woman who helped me to use the library, particularly when she showed me how to use the dewey decimal system. I remember some strange looks from adults when I was asking for them to reach down books you would not associate with small boys, like Euclidean geometry or how to learn Italian. As it happened my father was set to be going to Italy in the not too distant future, and taking the family with him. The family seem to have a flair for learning languages, my brother can do about a dozen and my seven-year-old niece three.

John Schmitt

[Matt]

To the dismay of Dr Drivel who always fancied a sailor with a wiggling arse :-)

[jhiker]

Had some of this under the kitchen sink for years - it's fantastic on stainless steel.