Aluminum,S/S,SteelWool & Dillon Brass cleaner
 

While repairing my seat base for a bolster (older style drop-down with two fat aluminum pieces bolted to s/s hinges), and cleaning the metal I found this combination worked pretty cool.

Just used some x-fine steel wool on the s/s, but more on the aluminum that had the "grunge" from over the years, stained a bit. (kinda like water spots on a car)..etc. THEN............applied some Dillon Brass cleaner I had, and man-oh-man, a mirror finish!:p

.........just wanted to pass that on to anyone, as I'm sure there are lots of other methods, this is just one more that really worked great.



Bob

:eek: Don't use steel wool on S/S... it causes the stainless to rust by leaving minute residue behind. Use a "bronze" steel wool (available @West, Boaters world, etc) as it does not rust or the steel wool substitute green, red, brown, etc pads. .

I imagine the same will happen on aluminum as it is softer than the S/S. Actually it is the steel wool that is rusting, not the stainless, but appearances do matter!!:D

Blownformula....thanks.............What I was using the wool for (and lightly) was to take of the surface crud. The cleaner cut throught the rest, and leaves a slight protective coating.

Fine steel wool and WD-40 works very well for cleaning as well.