Not positive by what you mean to refurbish: But, fine steel wool does an amazingly good job on chrome & stainless trim that has grime / pits or any overspray on it. Make sure to test on a small inconspicous area first.
Don't listen to anyone who says steel wool will scratch. They need to try it before they knock it.
For chrome bumpers, I slowly pour the coke on and let it soak. Then I start scrubing with a rag. Then i use steel wool than rinse with water and buff with a rag. I've seen coke clean better than chrome polish. I would think stainles would react similarly.
Stainless is not the same as chrome,Most stainless is 3030 ,and much softer than chrome The stainless can be worked up from ,(depending how bad it's scratched and how much work you want to do )100 grit, 150, 220 ,400,600 than buff with compound ,like rubbing compound ,next polishing compound last a good wax buff or finishing compound .change direction with each step and clean between each step.Don't go any courser than you need to ,each step doubles the work.There are a lot of polishing compounds for pro steel polishing that would make it faster but they are expensive . My family's busness for 50 years has been tool & die polishing .they polish a lot of s.s. and tool steel.Hope this helps
I'm with jeremyL. Buy a cloth wheel & some rouge for your bench grinder. You won't believe the results plus, you won't hurt it with a cloth wheel (unless you get some really coarse rouge. It also sounds like 4u2nv knows what he's talking about, but I have 1st hand knowledge with cloth wheels (Look at an Eastwood catalog - they have tons of high quality polishing tools.
The cloth wheels work very good but they can be messy .Felt bobs are the best depending on the media your using.They can also be fairly aggresive. 3000 dia. compound take out just about anything ,but it's about $3.00 a gram
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