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beastud

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I am hoping you hood guys will have the answers to cleaning my grill. We do not and will not do hoods. But before I winterize my equipment I want to clean my stainless steel BBQ grill. I am trying to remove the usual smoke and soot from cooking the best steaks, brats, chicken, and ribs all year long! It is getting pretty thick on the outside of the grill. It would be nice to get it shiny again. I am not worried about the inside. It is getting cold here so Heeeeeeelp! :yikes::yikes::yikes:
 
I have used Purple Power from Dollar General to remove smoke stains from vinyl before and it works great, but have not tried it on stainless steel.

There are some chems that are harmful to stainless, be careful.

Good Luck
 
Larry Millette said:
I love Google! :thumbup2:
http://www.google.com/search?source...ing+grease+stains+from+stainless+steel+grills
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Thanks Larry
I love Google also, but all those guys on Google either make too much work out of it or they want you to buy their cleaning kit or they contradict each other. (scrub with a steel pad but do not use abrasives or you will scratch it........my head is exploding!) :speechless::speechless::speechless:

I am hoping the pros here can steer me right.
 
I use a butyl based degreaser to remove the blackening, then a light wash with aluminum brightener to bring back the original luster to the stainless and remove the rust stains from the steel hardware. I can't understand a manufacturer making a stainless grill, then fastening it together with steel screws, hinges, casters, etc.
 
Russ Johnson said:
I use a butyl based degreaser to remove the blackening, then a light wash with aluminum brightener to bring back the original luster to the stainless and remove the rust stains from the steel hardware. I can't understand a manufacturer making a stainless grill, then fastening it together with steel screws, hinges, casters, etc.
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Thanks Russ,
I was going to use a product by Castrol called Super Clean. I use this a lot. It is an emulsion that works well for cleaning grease from concrete, wood and rubber/vinyl. The aluminum brighteners that I used in the past were acids that took the finish off steel parts that would then make them rust but if they are rusted now, I guess I could give them an oil coating.
 
Russ Johnson said:
I use a butyl based degreaser to remove the blackening, then a light wash with aluminum brightener to bring back the original luster to the stainless and remove the rust stains from the steel hardware. I can't understand a manufacturer making a stainless grill, then fastening it together with steel screws, hinges, casters, etc.
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I think that one term for that would be Engineered Obsolesense so the parts will start to fail after so long and would help the other parts to fail (working in harmony with each other to fail) so within a few years you will have to buy another.

OR

They are just tightwads and don't want to spend the money on better parts because in this economy they are watching every penny closer and closer and feel that since most things these days are cheap, they can just fit right in.

hahahahaha
 
Mark 8262 said:
I have used Purple Power from Dollar General to remove smoke stains from vinyl before and it works great, but have not tried it on stainless steel.

There are some chems that are harmful to stainless, be careful.

Good Luck
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What chems are harmful to stainless?

Sodium Hydroxide or Potassium Hydroxide will work, but they will leave a residue on the stainless that you can clean off with 409 or any thing Like that.

I use zep products for work and on some of my personal stuff. If you have access to zep, get the oven brite. Very thick and will sit and dwell for a good while. It is a caustic though. PPE required !!!

DO NOT use abrasives against the grain. A green scotch brite with the grain of the metal will never be noticed, as that is what is used to polish ss anyhow. Just like you sand with the grain on wood.
 
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welder said:
What chems are harmful to stainless?

Sodium Hydroxide or Potassium Hydroxide will work, but they will leave a residue on the stainless that you can clean off with 409 or any thing Like that.

I use zep products for work and on some of my personal stuff. If you have access to zep, get the oven brite. Very thick and will sit and dwell for a good while. It is a caustic though. PPE required !!!

DO NOT use abrasives against the grain. A green scotch brite with the grain of the metal will never be noticed, as that is what is used to polish ss anyhow. Just like you sand with the grain on wood.
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Thanks Mark. I have some SH mixed from the last job that I can freshen up and zap onto it, then hit it with hot water? I just do not want to put something on that turns the stickies into something worse like adding hardener to epoxy.

Whatever happened to the good old oven cleaner sprays that had you heating the oven, spraying, then watching all the crud melt away? I wish I knew what was in that stuff! I will search out the OvenBrite from Zep as a backup....
 
beastud said:
Thanks Mark. I have some SH mixed from the last job that I can freshen up and zap onto it, then hit it with hot water? I just do not want to put something on that turns the stickies into something worse like adding hardener to epoxy.

Whatever happened to the good old oven cleaner sprays that had you heating the oven, spraying, then watching all the crud melt away? I wish I knew what was in that stuff! I will search out the OvenBrite from Zep as a backup....
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Potassium hydroxide base. both oven cleaner and zep oven bright
 
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