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| | | | Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall | | Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 | I'm swapping off some labor/service with a friend of mine and he has a stainless steel bumper that came off of a Jeep. Its "clean" but doggone it, even though its clean you can still get "black" stuff off of it.
What do you guys use to spruce up stainless steel to a nice an shiny shape? I need to know, he's doing some alternator and generator work for me at a low price! | | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,270 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,270 | | | | | | Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall | | Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 | Thanks, its ironic that my oldest daughter has been using BKF for years. Never knew it was good for SS. | | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 9,671 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 9,671 | Wow Alvin, been around the metal working business since I was
a kid, worked for nearly three decades at an accelerator
that was built out of SS. I welded it for half of my time
served there, and In all those years, I never saw any SS that
would tarnish. I've seen SS trim that has sat in scrap yards
for half a century where the rest of the vehicle had rusted
away around it, and the SS still looked great and would only
take a wipe down with some chrome polish to take the grime
off.
Point is....are you sure it's SS?
Denny G
DG
Denny G
Sandwich, IL
| | | | | Joined: May 2012 Posts: 574 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: May 2012 Posts: 574 | new ss may not be the same quality stuff as the old ss, just like almost everything else these days
1949 Dodge Coronet 1955 2nd Chevy 4400 1.5 ton 1955 2nd Chevy 3100 1/2 ton 1955 2nd Chevy 3100 1/2 ton 1957 Chevy 5400 LCF 2 ton 1966 Dodge D100 Sweptline 1968 Chevy P20 stepvan 1969 GMC LWB pickup 1972 GMC Sprint 1974 CP30 shorty bus There are three things that I've learned never discuss with people: religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin.----Linus Van Pelt Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9  | | | | | Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall | | Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 | its stainless, Denny. I'm not sure of the makeup/composition but it really only needs a good cleaning. Been in the weather a long time and just needs some TLC. I got two cans of the BarKeepersFriend to try next week. It should to the trick and clean up a few tough spots.
Thanks for the input guys. Stovebolting is ALWAYS interesting. | | | | | Joined: Oct 2014 Posts: 25 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Oct 2014 Posts: 25 | I have worked in the food industry for years and have saw 202 - 304 SS rust but somebody scratching it with a different type metal or dragging some thing over it and making it look tarnished or dull looking. We had a bar of polishing compound that we used to get it looking great again. But this Barkeepers Friend sounds like really the cats meow when cleaning SS.
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Don | | | | | Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 3,399 Gas Pumper | | Gas Pumper Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 3,399 | NeverDull was the big deal in the 70's/80's. I still have a can and use it for that. It was a wool permeated in some kind of metal cleaner. Worked amazing on brass, but also SS. I need to get me some of the latest greatest! | | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 9,671 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 9,671 | Nevr-Dull, still using it after four decades and although it's a bit dryer than it was new, it still works: http://www.pbase.com/dennygraham/image/159317093/largeStainless steel will stain.....as Don posted, if rusty metal or was in contact with it or if it was covered with something that transferred to it, but those stains will come out. Rust adjacent to a weld is often seen because there is a heat effected band of the parent metal that cooled slowly causing it to loose it's austenitic properties. It will also be somewhat magnetic in this band. dg
Denny G
Sandwich, IL
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