Most people can tell by touch. Knock on it and you’ll feel and hear if its porcelain or enameled steel/iron like most are. If its dead sounding, like knocking on a coffee cup its porcelaine, if it rings a bit, enameled steel.
As long as its one of those two, you can try scrubbing 000 or 0000 steel wool. If its soft plastic, don’t as you’ll scratch it.
The burn would be IN the platic not on it. Best solution would be to replace it. If you really can’t do that, you can consider some combination of bleaching it to lighten the colour, or gently polishing it away (like a dremel and rouge) then clear coating.
Go find a discount building material store… most larger metropolitan areas I’ve been in have them. You can find a replacement sink for pennies on the dollar because contractors screwed up the order, or the owner changed their mind.
If it’s acrylic, you can use an acrylic tub/sink repair kit but you need to use the right kind of kit so make sure you know which it is before you try. Based on what it looks like, it appears to be some sort of plastic.
Tap on it: Does it sound ceramic? Plastic? Metal maybe? Do magnets stick? If so, it’s probably some sort of enamel over steel.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Most people can tell by touch. Knock on it and you’ll feel and hear if its porcelain or enameled steel/iron like most are. If its dead sounding, like knocking on a coffee cup its porcelaine, if it rings a bit, enameled steel.
As long as its one of those two, you can try scrubbing 000 or 0000 steel wool. If its soft plastic, don’t as you’ll scratch it.
dudesss@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
If it’s soft plastic (acrylic), what could I do instead?
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
The burn would be IN the platic not on it. Best solution would be to replace it. If you really can’t do that, you can consider some combination of bleaching it to lighten the colour, or gently polishing it away (like a dremel and rouge) then clear coating.
Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com 4 weeks ago
Go find a discount building material store… most larger metropolitan areas I’ve been in have them. You can find a replacement sink for pennies on the dollar because contractors screwed up the order, or the owner changed their mind.
dudesss@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
What’s a rouge?
_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
If it’s acrylic, you can use an acrylic tub/sink repair kit but you need to use the right kind of kit so make sure you know which it is before you try. Based on what it looks like, it appears to be some sort of plastic.
Tap on it: Does it sound ceramic? Plastic? Metal maybe? Do magnets stick? If so, it’s probably some sort of enamel over steel.