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Old 12-14-2007, 07:32 PM
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Default Re: stainless sink?

Northstar,

Yes, it is possible. But if is it worth the enormous amount of work such an undertaking would entail is questionable. I have such thoughts myself at times. The sink in my sculpture studio is stainless. Every time I do I go take a cold shower instead.

Stainless is a hard metal. It's hard to work, hard to sand, and hard to polish. I suggest that you find a small piece of scratched up stainless hardware and polish that first, to get a feel for what it entails. I generally use a soft pad disc sander running at 2500 rpm with 150 grit for scratched up stainless. Then 220 grit, then 400. After that I go to either black emery or directly to a green stainless compound on a spiral sewn buff.

A sink is a massive undertaking.

Richard

Last edited by Rasper; 12-14-2007 at 07:33 PM. Reason: correcting English
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