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Any tricks to polishing the staining out of my UNION 76 Womens Room sign?
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Maybe? Maybe not? Do you have a picture?
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Here is the pic Had to resize.
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I have used Bar Keepers Friend on white background porcelain signs before to remove the rust stains.
I like this product because it is very gentle and doesn't scratch.
I just used a bit of water and my fingers on my signs.
May work, may not.
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It looks more like fading than staining? I'd say you are stuck with what you have?
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I have had good luck with a product called "Bar Keepers Friend"...This is a powder made to clean porcelain stove tops and is available at most large supermarkets and at Lowes. TRY IT ON A SMALL AREA FIRST. Some signs may have a slight dullness after you rub out the stain. A coat of car wax usually brings back a shine. Good luck.
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Tried a little Bar Keepers. Anyone tried a polisher?
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I think Kevin is right, perhaps if you used a car wax it might even the blues out more? but probably not.
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You can always do this! Not recommended though! 
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All joking aside, you may try some car paint rubbing compound. A little bit harsher but may help.
But K W may be right and it may be faded.
Best of luck
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Tried a little Bar Keepers. Anyone tried a polisher? I use a concoction of BKF and Gel-Glos porcelain polish avail at all your big box hardware stores. I go with a couple of blobs of polish and a few shakes of BKF and a couple swigs of ??? Then the wax on wax off moves and SHAZAM! Killer lookin' sign
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i use bar keepers friend sprayed with wesleys white wall tire cleaner, scub with scratcy bak green sponge. chris
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L@@ks like the blue on your sign is prone to fading, kind of a factory defect,perhaps the blues were a little different pigment that made parts fade faster. The most you can do now is put car wax on it. To maybe bring back the fading. (below is a sign that in the flange part is having the same trouble as yours) https://www.proxibid.com/asp/LotImageVie...amp;url=166.jpg
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Send it down here to me. And you wont even notice that fadeing anymore.
Hunt long and hard the good stuff still out there.
Jonathan lowry.
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