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Re: Stainless steel passivating polish?
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I've used acetone recently on stainless rails. Seemed to
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well. I didn't know of the dangers of storing acetone onboard what are they?
It's highly volatile, like gasoline but even more so. So if your container
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Re: Stainless steel passivating polish?
I have used a product called Super Stainless distributed here in the US by Tides
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Re: Stainless steel passivating polish?
Walter abrasives makes some.good products as does 3M
Only issue would be that they will take off any mirror polishing and leave it satin
Imo best to just polish it uo using a clean new polishing cloth or
wheel
with uncontaminated buffing compound
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