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Brass coating removal from shower fixture

I have Shower fixtures which are nickel with a brass finish. A shower cleaner ate through the brass in spots and left black streaks. I need to know what I can purchase to remove what brass is left.

Edverda Francis
student - Eynon, Pennsylvania, USA
2005

It sounds like this wasn't brass, but a tinted lacquer or translucent plastic coating; lacquer thinner ⇦ on eBay or Amazon [affil link] Flammable! may remove it. If not, it sounds like you've already found a shower cleaner that will. Try applying the thinner or the shower cleaner with 0000 (very fine) #0000 steel wool ⇦ on eBay or Amazon [affil link] .

Ted Mooney, P.E.
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2005

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