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if it had been a cheaper sink aye deffinately. i think ill try on one area. if it dissapears relatively quickly and with out too much effort then itll be worth it.

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thanks for the tip i have some of that at home. ill give it a try

So the answer is to scratch it all over

Razor wrote:So the answer is to scratch it all over

Sounds like a Brut advert....... But scratching it all over is exactly what they do whem they make it. If you've ever seen a stainless steel fabricator at work installing hand rails you'll know exactly what I mean

I saw a bloke refacing a DeLorean on Wheeler Dealers. They were made with stainless steel bodies and hand brushed finish. He used a emery type system from memory and it looked really good when he had done. I don't think this info will help with the sink though

DWD

some canny stuff on that whealer dealers like. i wish theyd want to find a mid 80's toyota supra then they could take both of mine and cobble a car out the 2 . how much did the delorean sell for?

i do feel its worth trying to remove the scratches iff possible. otherwise its gonna be a half a day to remove and refit plus another sink. or i can spend say an hour trying to get the scratches out and if after an hour its no good then ive lost an hour and no more.

fin wrote:some canny stuff on that whealer dealers like. i wish theyd want to find a mid 80's toyota supra then they could take both of mine and cobble a car out the 2 . how much did the delorean sell for?

i do feel its worth trying to remove the scratches iff possible. otherwise its gonna be a half a day to remove and refit plus another sink. or i can spend say an hour trying to get the scratches out and if after an hour its no good then ive lost an hour and no more.

That was a great episode and I think that it went for £20k. They spent a lot of time brushing the stainless but it came up a treat.

Fin have a go but whatever you do, no matter how tempting in the effort to speed things up, don't go against the grain or in circular motions.

There are powders you can buy which are developed just for this problem but BKF is almost the same in liquid form, give it a go.

Hand on heart though, the sink will scratch far worse than it is now within just 1 week of use. I would seriously consider having a talk with your client to make them aware of this. It looks terrible now because it is a single scratch, it would be a terrible shame for you to replace the sink and then be called back because your client has unrealistic expectations of just how scratch resistant SS sinks are. In my experience the only sinks which do not scratch easily are real high grade marine SS and cost upwards of £500. They still scratch in the end but just hide it better whilst the patina takes hold.

We put a cheap sink in our kitchen (its only temporary accommodation for us), it looked beautiful for about 2 days, then it looked awful for about a month or so and now it just looks like any old sink really.

just an update to this. i tried as suggested the other day. i started off with whitening toothpaste. i then went on to bar keepers friend. and in the sink bowl i used wet and dry 1200 paper.





when i got to the house the bloody painter had the sink up to its tits in paint. when they go and wash their gear in the sinks and dont clean it properly. i cleaned the sink right up and it was pretty well scratched. i hadnt realised it was as bad as it was. unless its been scratched with use since also. anyway, as i said i started with whitening toothpaste. it didnt seem to do much at all. i then got the bar keepers friend out. worked at it for a while and then washed it down and thought ahh i can still see them. ill go get some wet and dry paper. when i came back the house holder was singing the stuffs praises. she reaconed the scratches had been almost hidden. so this time i put loads of it on and got a lush foamy thing going on. i was only using a scouring pad (those sponge things with coarser sponge on the top. )

it seemed to work a treat on the drainer. then she said there was some scratches in the bowl too. so the same thing with the bar keepers mate. loads of foam. washed it away but i could still see them. she came through and said it was a miracle... so i used a combination of barkeepers friend and wet and dry paper and it seemed to do the job as i couldnt see them in the bowl afterwards. mind you on the drainer if i go right down and look along it i can still make them out although very faint.

so thanks for the tip lads. it shouldnt have been needed i know. but sometimes mistakes happen.

atleast it didnt cost a new sink etc. only 2 hours of my time and a few odds and ends of cleaning stuff.

Good to hear you sorted it.