OT: Stainless Steel Cleaner

SoftScrub.

Those are what we use. You folks may be fussier than we are. (Hopefully your wife's trouble isn't serious? Prayers ascending, anyway.)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

A lot of people seem to swear by Bar Keeper's Friend.

Active ingredient is oxalic acid... wear rubber gloves, don't mix with chlorinated cleansers or ammonia.

Windex, works for light dirt. Still have to go with the grain. Have you checked a Delorean forum ;)

Cheers

I think the problem here is the humidity is so low the stuff dries as fast as you apply it.

Thanks! She took a serious fall a few years ago and cracked just about every possible vertebrae. In the move last year she re-injured that... and now we're caught in a Catch-22: the pain raises her blood pressure and they can't operate with her blood pressure sky high :-(

We're seeking new medical opinions this week. ...Jim Thompson

Good idea ;-) ...Jim Thompson

SWMBO uses Barkeeper's Friend. It's available in many retail stores, including Home Depot and Amazon.

For anything tough to shift, copper scourer is IT. But its slow on light dirt.

Don't try a bleach soak, nasty reactions occur.

NT

Hi, Jim:-

C. buys some white fine-grained sponge-like things that work very well. They kind of disinetegrate as they are are used up. I'm sure they're some major brand of thing .. hopefully you can recognize it in the store. Work well on our SS fridge and dishwasher.

P.S. just asked via Wechat (a Chinese IM app).. they're Mr. Clean.

(currently in Hunan province)

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Magic Eraser.

That sucks.

OK. I know what you mean... "erasers" ??

A client of mine is in Hong Kong... costing him an extra hour a day in commute, to avoid the protest crowds :-( ...Jim Thompson

The recommended treatment for a Delorean was sandpaper.

On Monday, October 6, 2014 6:26:52 PM UTC-4, David Platt wrote: >

I use Bar Keepers Friend when needed. Bon Ami when not as dirty.

Vinegar is good for hard water deposits. And Citric Acid is good on stainless. You can get Citric Acid at Tractor Supply. It is used to clean stainless piping in milking machines. It also is good for removing rust on not stainless steel.

Dan

Sigh, thoughts and prayers, Jim.

(It seems to pedantic to add that I like ammonia for grease... my wife hates the smell.)

George H.

Thanks!

Ammonia is verboten on many metal surfaces. ...Jim Thompson

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Spehro, the white foam is Melamine. We get big sheets from McMaster-Carr, its a nice high temp insulation >160 C. (actually the last time we ordered it was blue and not white anymore... still seems to insulate as well I don 't know about cleaning properties...) Maybe Mr. Clean has bought up all the white stuff. We still have left over white scraps that are used for clean ing.

George H.

Distilled water and cheap paper towels. After a few times goes FAST!

Why cheap paper towels? You want the paper towel with NO additives, like in Bounty etc else you get streaking. To check if towel has additives put it in Clorox. If it gets so hot it burns you, it has additives.

Antiseptic grade 70% rubbing alcohol on a rag. It has just the right mix of water and alcohol to soften pretty much everything that spills in a kitchen. If you've accidentally left the cap off your 99.99% isopropanol bottle over night, this is a good new use for it.

A high carbon steel wire brush with fine bristles restores the original brushed look. It takes practice to reproduce the original grain.

That's the stuff, thanks!

Nah, it's really one of the coolest places on the planet and should be on many a bucket list:

A few hundred km west of Music Mountain (birthplace of the Great Helmsman himself). Zenni glasses are made near here IIRC- if so a couple pairs made a round trip in the past few weeks.

Kind of a nice change from the "Bladerunner" atmosphere of cities like Shanghai and Shenzhen.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany