ps - "all clean" meant "scraped right down to the bare steel" in this case. ----- Original Message ----- >I knew someone who had the same finish on all the door hardware in his house > .... he removed every piece & got them "all clean again" with some kind of > industrial polishing compound. I couldn't tell if he was disappointed when I > told him the pieces were SUPPOSED to have spots of different-colored metal. > ack. >