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Subject: RE: chrome and steel wool

Author: Zerhackermann .

Date: Dec 7, 2001, 10:42 AM

Post ID: 1709099550

Use copper wool so you can get a nice green tint.







 From: Derek Hamlet <derekh-@home.com>
Reply-To: Loopfram-@topica.com
To: Loopfram-@topica.com
Subject: RE: chrome and steel wool
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 08:59:24 -0800

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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.
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Ross,

I am not sure if your comments are an endorsement of the steel wool
method, or not. Personally, I have yet to see any chrome item that has
had the steel wool treatment come out anything but totally, and
permanently screwed up. Gary Cheek showed me a much better way to
restore moderately rusted chrome using a brass brush and Never Dull.
Comb the Never Dull wadding into the brush and then start scrubbing on
the chrome until the rust disappears. I have seen him do some items that
I would have sworn were going to have to go to the chrome shop, with
excellent results. Since he showed me this trick, I have used it many
times and recommend it highly. Granted, it is not as good as a rechrome
job, but where perfection is not warranted this provides a good
substitute.

Ross wrote:
 I keep seeing this mentioned, including on Ebay, that to clean up that
"old
chrome that has rust and pits" just take some mild steel wool to it.
Chrome
is a very thin layer over nickel, abrasives will only shorten the life
of
the chrome and expose the nickel.


Tom

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