How To Remove Rust On Cupboard Handles Query?

[cleoval]

Hi i have some rust on the Stainless Steel Handles on my kitchen cupboard door handles. Does anybody know how to remove it please and if they can recommend a product that is good and reliable.? Thanks,

[Buenchico]

Worth a try, I think:
https://home.howstuffworks.com/home-improvement/household-hints-tips/cleaning-organizing/how-to-get-rust-off-stainless-steel.htm

[shoota]

Are they a satin finish?
If so, 0000 grade steel wool lubed with WD40 should shift it.
Try on a hidden bit first.

[gness]

Try some wet tin foil. I scrunch it up a little but that’s not necessary.

[Khandro]

Stainless steel doesn't rust

[cleoval]

Thanks to everyone for your tips. Gness i just did what you suggested and it worked a treat.! Thanks so much.

[gness]

Thank you for BA, Cleoval.
Handy little tip isn’t it...... :-)

[jennyjoan]

another little tip - is a brillo pad - will bring it up too.

[theprof]

Khandro, I'm afraid your mistaken. Stainless Steel can indeed corrode by the removal of the protective chromium oxide layer. Typically, this occurs in conditions of high humidity, high salinity, exposure to food high in chloride, mechanical abrasion and household cleaners. The grades of Stainless Steel used in kitchen cupboard handles are very prone to this type of corrosion. Specialised High grade Stainless Steels are immune to damage but these grades are not used for kitchen cupboard door handles.

[Khandro]

theprof; If it stains, it's not by definition, "stainless" steel, it's something else.

[theprof]

Khandro, I'm afraid not. You can't take the literal definition of "stainless" seriously over this no matter how much you want to do so. Low chromium stainless steel like all other stainless steels, has a layer of oxide on the surface. It's called a passive layer. If the passive layer is broken down by the methods I outlined in my post above, the stainless steel will locally corrode and form rust spots. It's called pitting. Stainless steels cannot collectively be referred to as rust-proof or any similar meaning term you wish to use. High grade stainless steel that are the nearest thing to what you would term rust-proof are available, but these steels are not used for kitchen door handles

Lots of information on the web regarding this if you care to check. Just Google "Stainless steels that rust". If I can help further, let me know.

[Khandro]

theprof //You can't take the literal definition of "stainless" seriously...//
You can & I do.

[theprof]

Khandro, I'm very grateful for you supporting my belief that there are people who truly believe that stainless steels are all resistant to rust.

As a result of your insight, I shall make every effort to bring the matter to the attention of the numerous metallurgists, material scientists, mechanical engineers and chemists employed at this university in addition to the numerous colleagues working in industry.

Clearly, the time has come to rewrite the textbooks.

Thank you.

[Ryzen]

All grades of stainless steel will rust given the right..or wrong.. conditions.

[gingejbee]

the prof...you do realise that some people like to be confrontational, no matter how little they know or understand? Similarly, some people can't differentiate between the common everyday use of a word and it's scientific use.

[theprof]

gingejbee, it didn't take me long to realise that this Khandro was doing his utmost to be be both confrontational and to wind me up. Hence the sarcasm in my 18:27 post. My suggestion that Google should be used to clarify the matter was intended to invite other readers of the thread to look up the matter rather than Khandro. The ridiculousness of his/her claims and the lack of common sense could then be seen by all.

[Khandro]

Ryzen; //All grades of stainless steel will rust given the right..or wrong.. conditions.//

Explain; do you mean subjecting it to nitric acid etc. or 1400 degrees C. ?
If an architect specifies on a large scale, door furniture to be made of stainless steel & it rusts in normal conditions, law suits would soon follow, but I've never heard of that.
I don't know what the handles in the OP are made of, but it isn't stainless steel, nor would/should it have been described as such.