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.
They will bring back the grungiest whitewalls or raised white letters on tires making them gleam like new.
ReplyDeleteTo get permanent marker off of a dry erase board, write over the permanent marker with a dry erase marker, then erase.
ReplyDeleteYep, they STILL work!!!
ReplyDeletePro 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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