Subject: Polishing/cleaning Stainless steel

From: [email-masked] (Eagan L Foster)
Date: 28 Apr 1996 23:22:31 -0400

My wife has a Reverware teapot (that has sentimental value).  This has a
polished stainless steel finish on the top and side (copper on the bottom).

After many years of use, it is quite discolored from the heating to
boiling that is typical on an electric range.  She would like some advice
on cleaning it up again, without marring the finish.

Any ideas?

-- 
Eagan

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From: [email-masked] (J. Kimberlin)
Date: 29 Apr 1996 15:51:21 -0700

In article <[email-masked]>,
>on cleaning it up again, without marring the finish.

It is likely that the whole pot is copper and that it has been plated 
with chrome.  If this is the case, I think the only solution is to 
dechrome and replate.  If, in fact, the bottom part is copper and is 
welded to a stainless upper somehow, then the stainless can be polished 
using jewelers rouge to get rid of the color.  If you don't want to do 
the polishing yourself, your local electroplater can do the polishing for 
you for a price that is probably beyond the value of the pot.

JerryK