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Removing brush marks form stainless

How do you remove brushed stainless marks to make mirror finish.

Thank you

Mark King
big red - Lahaina Maui, Hawaii, USA
2004

The only way is use a sandpaper that is coarse enough to remove them, but fine enough to leave only finer scratches than you started with, and to do the same with progressively finer media. There are dozens of letters on line here that describe the sequence toward polishing. Please search the site for 'polishing'. Probably the major difference among those letters is that stainless will require different abrasives than other substrates as you get closer to a polished finish. Good luck.

Ted Mooney, P.E.
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