Stainless Steel Sink

We rented a place with a naff SS sink when first married. I cleaned it with fine wire wool and chrome polish, followed by Brillo Pads and washing up liquid. This gave a fairly even Matt finish which was clean and stain free. It took a couple of hours but looked pretty good.

I suspect any deep scratches may need some wet and dry paper.

The washing up liquid acts as a lubrication and reduces the ?cut? of the wire wool or wet and dry.

Rubber abrasive block, like an eraser but with an harsher abrasive embedded. Polibloc or a similar name... Rub in one direction, to produce parallel scratches.

Fair bit of work, but easy to stop and resume.

Thomas Prufer

I just knew somebody would say that. Also stainless seems often to be a bit of misnomer. Ours may or may not be stainless but I can attach a fridge magnet to it,yet others I can't so its some kind of alloy. and it seems to be stained by tea. Brian

Jimk snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@brightview.co.uk:

What type of wheel do you suggest?

While the reply may have been meant tongue-in-cheek, there *are* some discs: "Flap Felt Disc Metal Polishing Angle Grinder Buffing Wheel Polishers" will work, using a suitable buffing compound. Or "Nylon Fiber Polishing Wheel Sanding Buffing Disc Abrasive Wheels for Angle Grinders", as a first go if it's badly scuffed.

(both found on leftpondian Amazon, .co.uk availability left as an exercise for the reader...)

Beware that buffing wheels pretend to be benign and harmless, but can snatch violently. A firm hand and cautious eye, and the sink will be buffed to a mirror finish (and then will show every tiniest spot of limescale, YHBW.)

Thomas Prufer

Stainless steel is an alloy, also some stainless grades are non magnetic as used on submarines.

Thomas Prufer snipped-for-privacy@mnet-online.de.invalid> wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

I like the sound of that rubber abrasive block - as a tool for occassional use.

angle grinder with a buff and buffing compound would work.

Also stainless seems often to be a bit

Thomas Prufer

Stainless _is_ a misnomer. The French call it inoxydable which as you may guess means won't oxidise or rustless. Which is closer, but not entirely true.

Andy

Not really a misnomer - it stains less than mild steel. Leave a Brillo pad on it, however, and you will soon see rust marks.

Some SS is magnetic, some is not.

Chris

Once you get it to a decent state, a foamed melamine "eraser" block can help keep it looking good.

In short we call it inox. I once came across a big SS screw that was magnetic at one side but not at the other.

Chris J Dixon snipped-for-privacy@cdixon.me.uk> wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Austenitic and non-austenitic grades

Well I've learned something today - that there is a non-magnetic allotrope of iron. I'd naively thought that anything made of or containing metallic iron was ferromagnetic.

Did anyone ask how deep the scratches are ?

This is a stainless steel sink factory and their robotic sink finishing section. There's no closeup of the Brillo pads the robots are using :-) This section seems to be finishing the bottom of the sink, rather than the whole thing.

Paul snipped-for-privacy@needed.invalid wrote in news:ric9nb$1vbh$ snipped-for-privacy@gioia.aioe.org:

Amazing video

Angle grinder.

Abrasive?