Re: [DML] WD-40 as a stainless cleaner?

[Michael Paine <mpaine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I did this to my car almost right after getting it and after a few weeks my 
panels were brown with dirt that had stuck to the oils. It was pulled into the 
grain and I had to go over my car with a blending pad to get it out of the 
panels.

Regards,

Michael


Quoting ComposerZelgadis@xxxxxxx:

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> I'll be perfectly honest, I have very little knowledge of stainless steel  in
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> general (i.e. do's and don'ts).  However, at work, we have a few wooden  
> doors that have been plated with stainless steel panels (they look very
> similar  
> to the DeLorean's, but appear to have much more "bend" and "give" to  them). 
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> We used to use Goo-Gone to clean up the fingerprints &  what-not, and it did
> a 
> fair job in my opinion.  Then, one day, my boss  hands me a can of WD-40, a 
> rag, and tells me to "get to it."  And  apparently, this stuff works.  Not as
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> good as the Goo-Gone did in my  opinion, but it still cleans up the
> fingerprint 
> smudges rather nicely, and  almost gives our panels a nice shine.  Now I
> don't 
> have that much knowledge  of WD-40 either, but could a man use this stuff to
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> clean up DeLorean panels when  he is out of the more traditional stainless 
> cleaners?  What about the  long-term / short-term effects?  I can't really
> see 
> any immediate danger,  as we've been using the stuff for a good couple months
> 
> now @ work, but I thought  I would get a green-light from the list first
> before 
> trying this on a  DeLorean.
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