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Scratches on satin finish stainless steel
Intro / synopsis: Be careful in applying polish to stainless steel -- it may be the applicator (scotchbrite) rather than the polish which causes scratches. If you do scratch stainless steel, consider contacting BarrysRestoreItAll [a finishing.com supporting advertiser], or see topic 4148 for alternatives.
Q. How can I get scratches out of a satin finish stainless steel range hood?
Neal Gelfand- New York, New York
2001
Q. When my husband and I cleaned our Dacor Epicure hood range we used Hope's [affil links] stainless steel cleaner. They swore (when I called them) that it is non abrasive and had no chlorine compounds in their product. Well, we now have a large scratched area with both circular and vertical scratches. I am petrified to use sandpaper on it as the hood and range cost us a small fortune. I have an email in to BarrysRestoreItAll [a finishing.com supporting advertiser] re. "Scratch be gone". Any other suggestions?
Marsha Oremland2005
consumer - Owings Mills, Maryland
A. I'm certainly not here to defend Hope's, Marsha! ... but to point in a different direction only so that the same thing doesn't happen to you or other readers again. If you used one of those scotchbrite sponges/scrubbies to apply the polish, it was probably that, rather than the polish you used, that caused the scratching. We have dozens of similar reports on line here.
Ted Mooney, P.E.
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
You did not answer their question. How do you remove scratches from stainless steel. Rather than a hood however, my interest is pertaining to a stainless satin steel sink
- Belleview, Florida, USA
May 5, 2008
Hi, Don. Apologies but this is a public forum; it's not a consulting service where I claim expertise in all subjects including Marsha's hood and your satin-finished sink :-)
Marsha said she had already contacted BarrysRestoreItAll [a finishing.com supporting advertiser] about Scratch-B-Gone, so I left it there because they are experts on correction of stainless scratches and I am not. Instead, I focused my response on the cause of the scratches, hoping future readers might be able to avoid such scratches by not using scotchbrite pads to apply polish. But we have countless threads on your subject on this site; please try topic 4148. Good luck!
Regards,
Ted Mooney, P.E.
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
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