Stainless steal cleaner

06Rinker270

Can anyone please recommend a good stainless steal cleaner?  Over the winter I have a few spots growing on various SS parts.  Is this preventable and removable?  My galley stink is getting some rust spots as well.

Handymans342

Never Dull works good

raybo3

Flitz also works very good and you can use it on fiberglass......

Handymans342

Bartenders friend too

Black_Diamond

Brass 'steel wool'. And Woody Wax.  Awesome on SS. 

06Rinker270

Thank you everyone for the input.  Will the Brass work to get rid of the corrosion or whatever is happening to the SS?

Black_Diamond

Yup. Do NOT use sos pads or steel wool. The iron from them will deposit onto the SS and ruin it. 

Dream_Inn

Flitz is definitely the best I've used!

06Rinker270

copy that thank you guys.

MarkB

That first picture looks like it is different metals used for the screws and brackets leading to a galvanic reaction. The more noble metal wins and corrodes the other metal. Perhaps the screws aren't 100% 316 SS??

Black_Diamond

That green is copper corroding. Means those parts are not SS but plated steel. Likely chrome plated. The copper is the base plating and then you hard chrome or electroless plate the chrome over that.  Once the surface is pitted to expose the base metal, no going backwards. 

06Rinker270

Just lovely.  Well I will get some new screws and try and slow it down.  Thank you

rasbury

I have heard the brass steel wool as black mentioned and the woody was works great.

AccidentalSuperstar

 Bar keepers friend is the way to go (metal too)

AccidentalSuperstar

It's the right choice 

06Rinker270

@AccidentalSuperstar superstar wow that Bartenders worked on the yellowing?  It was a pain getting that off mine.

Did you have to scrub with anything?

AccidentalSuperstar

Funny... used this tub scrubber:

(http://m.homedepot.com/p/Scotch-Brite-Non-Scratch-Tub-Scrubber-549H-CC/202511524).

A bit of elbow greese, came fight off.

You may need a good gradual desenagrating compound and a good buffer to remove tough stains. I use Shurhold's buff magic with a Porter Cable Radom dual action buffer.


My choice in product comes from poking around this site (leading to other sites), and weather or not I could easily order the product from www.homedepot.com  (where any purchase over $299 is 12 mo w/no interest... I don't work for them, but I recognize free money for a year when I see it.) Be sure to Ck out www.schurhold.com - it has great videos and answers a lot of questions I had about boat maintainance. I chose their products aside from the wax and buffer.

Hey, I'm no expert..... Hope that helps!
Happy boating.

AccidentalSuperstar

Hey O6Rinke270...

06Rinker270

thanks brotha!