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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
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. Is there any way to make it look blacker, more like its old self?
Thanks so much!
consumer - Salem, Virginia
2006
? Why not black spray paint, Anna?
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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.
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