Comments on: How to care for your metal kitchen cabinets – circa 1960 instructions

By: atimicbowler-dave

atimicbowler-dave — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:15:40 +0000

I just went to the link for St. Charles that Frank posted.

I will spend my Christmas vacation cleaning all the slobber marks off the keyboard at my work computer!

It took restraint not to lick the screen.
Yumm!
Dave

By: pam kueber

pam kueber — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:00:53 +0000

ooooh, Dave, I know what I’m doing over the Xmas break: Polishing my Genevas!

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:44:26 +0000

Pam,

Have you tried contacting St. Charles Cabinets to see if they still make the clearner. They are owned by Viking now.

http://www.stcharlescabinets.com/products.php

By: atomicbowler-dave

atomicbowler-dave — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:57:48 +0000

Two suggestions for a cleaner/polish–
Meguiar’s products from your local autobody supply house or through your local NAPA jobber…
Mirror Glaze #6 cleaner/wax is a very fine hand compound combined with a caranuba wax in liquid form.
Mirror Glaze #7 is a “finishing/reseal glaze” and works well by hand. Would be a great last step to make the cabinet faces gleam.

So little of the product is left behind I really wouldn’t worry about using it on a countertop myself…if that is a concern, there is an old-school paste wax that’s pretty much straight caranuba called “Trewax”. Follow the instructions carefully, and don’t use it on the enameled fronts!
Dave

By: Rina

Rina — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:27:12 +0000

Awesome!! Thank you!! Just bought a 1962 house with steel cabinets and have been looking up all sorts of info on how to repaint, care for and maintain the cabinets!!