SOS or Brillo pads. Your grandmother used them. Basically, steel wool impregnated with soap, used to clean pots and pans.
Recently, I was watching Vise Grip Garage and he used SOS pads to take surface rust off of a car. Derrick was doing what he called a "Rustoration". We had an old refrigerator in the shop that Belle wanted to to get the rust off of it and repaint it. So, I got sot some SOS pads, gave it a good scrubbing, then went to the hardware store and bought a can of paint they call Appliance White. A little rattle-can, and the fridge came out looking a lot better, certainly good enough for the girls that hang out around here.
More recently, I had a cleaning job, getting permeant marker off of a dry-erase board. A quick spritzing with Windex, and a light touch with an SOS Pad and the board came out clean. Of course, they are still useful on pots and pans. Your grandmother used them because they work.
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They will bring back the grungiest whitewalls or raised white letters on tires making them gleam like new.
To get permanent marker off of a dry erase board, write over the permanent marker with a dry erase marker, then erase.
Yep, they STILL work!!!
Pro Tip: Cut your SOS (or Brillo) pads in half. With a full pad there's lots of life left after 1-2 uses, and it usually sits there and rusts until you finally throw it out. Half a pad cleans just fine and you get 2X the uses from the box.
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