Subject: RE: chrome and steel wool
Author: Derek Hamlet
Date: Dec 7, 2001, 10:15 AM
Post ID: 1709099149
I am usually pretty quiet on this list. However, I have to comment on the
steel wool thing. Usually we think of the steel wool situation when shiny
bits are seriously crudded, but, we do not want to pay for rechroming.
Steel wool will remove much of the crudding. Unfortunately it leaves small
bits of steel wool in the small pits in the compromised chrome. Those will
inevevitably rust in the small pits leaving you with a worse situation than
before.
At 04:20 PM 12/7/01 +0000, you wrote:
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