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Brass coating removal from shower fixture

I have Shower fixtures which are nickel with a brass finish. A shower cleaner ate through the brass in spots and left black streaks. I need to know what I can purchase to remove what brass is left.

Edverda Francis
student - Eynon, Pennsylvania, USA
2005

It sounds like this wasn't brass, but a tinted lacquer or translucent plastic coating; lacquer thinner ⇦this on eBay or Amazon [affil links] Warning! highly flammable! may remove it. If not, it sounds like you've already found a shower cleaner that will. Try applying the thinner or the shower cleaner with 0000 (very fine) #0000 steel wool ⇦this on eBay or Amazon [affil links] .

Ted Mooney, P.E.
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
2005

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