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[Closed] Stainless Steel sink has about 3 corroded pin holes............

 Alek
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Stainless steel sink, not that old (3 years) has three separate clusters of pin size holes, all reasonably closse to each other. Is there some type of stick patch on the market or similar to stop the drip/leak and avoid replacement?

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Posted : 21/04/2009 9:22 pm
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do you use a lot a bleach on it ?


 
Posted : 21/04/2009 9:54 pm
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I've found Araldite (the twin tube one) to be amazing - motorbike crankases - no problem sir....


 
Posted : 21/04/2009 9:54 pm
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ditto, stainless (particularly anything less than 22%) wont be happy with chlorides (bleach).

arrldite will do the job


 
Posted : 21/04/2009 9:59 pm
 Alek
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Wife is bleach-tastic mad.........hence the wear!

Will source some arrldite, cheers STW'ers


 
Posted : 21/04/2009 10:04 pm
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Go to B&Q (or similar) and have a look in the adhesives section, there's loads of epoxy type metals and adhesives, I used some of there own brand epoxy metal on a sst tank at work and its been fine for 6+ months!


 
Posted : 21/04/2009 10:23 pm
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Are you sure they are rust, pinholes, or just rust spots, try rubbing them with a kitchen scourer,dont let the wife se you doing it, or youll be forced to womens tasks like cleaning,etc.


 
Posted : 21/04/2009 10:27 pm
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or just rust spots

uh, if it's [b]stainless [/b]then it shouldn't rust, but stainless is susceptible to chlorine compounds, so go easy on the bleach...


 
Posted : 21/04/2009 10:35 pm
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As above, araldite, used it on some old lead pipes, worked a treat, leak free years on


 
Posted : 21/04/2009 10:37 pm