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Faded black stereo components: Can black color be restored?

Hi, I have a great 5-disk CD changer from before 1993, which has a solid black metal top (no vents). The top has clouded, looks dusty, probably from time, and having been cleaned a few times with Windex Commercial Line [on eBay or Amazon] . Is there any way to make it look blacker, more like its old self?
Thanks so much!

Anna Jones
consumer - Salem, Virginia
2006

Why not black spray paint, Anna?

Ted Mooney, P.E.
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
2006

If you don't like spray paint for any reason, you can also pick up a small pint bottle of Dykem Black Staining Liquid (basically an ink) from any Grainger store or equivalent - it would get you nice and black also.

You'd probably get better shine out of the spray paint though.

Jim Gorsich
Compton, California, USA
2006

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