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Subject: Stainless steel bumper straightening



>am
>seeking advice on the SS bumper restoration. Can those be
>straightened/polished/plated? Any advice is appreciated!

In my experience, Italian stainless steel car parts can be straightened and
polished, yes, but only to a degree. The Italians seem to have used an odd
stainless steel sandwhich material which has a blue-ish stainless on the
outside, but a yellow-ish steel in the middle. The best explaination I've
heard was that the material was rolled from laminated stock to save a few
bucks. True? I dunno, but you can't work it past the surface layer without
it looking like hell.
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