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Laundromat owner's new stainless steel washers have difficult stains

I am a laundromat owner, and I have just recently purchased (5) stainless steel front load washer extractors, they are almost new, but the tops and the sides have stains caused by, I presume, bleach or fabric softener.My question is: How do I get the stains out?.We have a very nice store and we want these to look new, We have tried different kinds of cleaner and polish but nothing, the polish just polishes the stains in. I thought maybe there was a polish that I could get and use a electric buffer,we have even thought of metal sanding the visible areas would these ideas work?

Please advise,

Phillip stumbo
Laundromat - Allen, Kentucky, USA
2003

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Bleach is well known to cause corrosion problems with stainless steel. You should be able to polish out the blemishes with a Scotchbrite (TM) pad and maybe give it a final polish with jewelers polish or ceric oxide paste. If you use an electric buffer it should not be too much work. You need to do it in a uniform way (polishing in the same direction, or with a circular motion). You need to make sure that whatever you use does not contain any iron!

Lee Kremer
Stellar Solutions, Inc.

McHenry, Illinois

2003