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Cleaning Black Bakelite (sp)
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Post# 67908   5/24/2005 at 05:38 (6,910 days old) by chachp (North Little Rock, AR)        

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I bought a beautiful Sunbeam Coffeemaster C50 off of eBay. The chrome is beautiful and appears to have seen little use. However, the bakelite (not sure if that's how you spell it) is dull and looks like it could use a good cleaning and polish.

What do you guys use to bring this back to life?





Post# 67914 , Reply# 1   5/24/2005 at 06:33 (6,910 days old) by CHRISTFR (st louis mo)        
car wax

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i usually try a good cleaner car wax on my kids.. painted surfaces, plastics, chrome, glass, enamel surfaces, and bakelite parts. usually helps a bunch

Post# 67926 , Reply# 2   5/24/2005 at 07:38 (6,910 days old) by retromom ()        
Love that Joe!

Ralph:

Congrats on the C-50! I'm telling you, it makes the best coffee (if you haven't found that out already! :-) ). I rotate my Coffeemasters just to keep them on their toes. Right now I'm using a C-30 with a glass beehive top. This one uses a Silex glass lox-in filter. What I really like about it is there is no paper filter to throw away. Also, for some reason, after brewing the grounds are really dry (making them easy to dispose of/recycle).

Thanks for the suggestion on the Bakelite Christopher. I don't mind it being a little dull, but I will try a little Johnson's paste wax to see the results.

Enjoy your coffee and Coffeemaster!

Venus


Post# 67959 , Reply# 3   5/24/2005 at 12:08 (6,910 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)        
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I had no idea there were C-master brewers here, I use my C-50 but I have never used my glass behive. I don't like the cloth filter system, I never thought that the Silex glass rod would fit the coffeemaster! What a concept!!!! Will try that this weekend!
The best thing to bring back bakelite is buffing with a high speed buffer no faster than 2000RPM ( or you will over heat and burn the bakelite) and a clean buffing cloth made out of cotton. NO COMPOUNDS just the cloth, thats what they did at the factory.
If you have a Dremel tool they have cotton buffs that let you get into all the crevices.

Jet


Post# 67983 , Reply# 4   5/24/2005 at 14:43 (6,910 days old) by kevinpreston3 ()        
The pleasures of breakfast....

Here is my C50, plus a rare 1939 Manning Bowman Twin-O-Matic waffle iron!

Post# 67994 , Reply# 5   5/24/2005 at 15:15 (6,910 days old) by retromom ()        
Super chrome appliances!

Way kewl Kevin! How does that waffle iron work? Can we peek inside?

Post# 67995 , Reply# 6   5/24/2005 at 15:17 (6,910 days old) by PeteK (Ontari ari ari O )        

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Love those coffee masters,, and Kevin that waffle iron is super. I only have one waffle iron, just a plain nothing Proctor Silex rectangular one, vintages like yours and older are very difficult to find now.

Post# 67997 , Reply# 7   5/24/2005 at 15:20 (6,910 days old) by PeteK (Ontari ari ari O )        

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re the polishing..yep cotton buffers, if you don't have a dremel you can get cotton buffers in cylinder and mushroom shapes that fit on an electric drill...that's what I use. And Armor All.

Post# 68040 , Reply# 8   5/24/2005 at 20:16 (6,910 days old) by kenmore1978 ()        
Dull Bakelite

Other things to try might be Jubilee, and car interior protectants like Armor All, Mother's, and Son of A Gun.

Post# 68048 , Reply# 9   5/24/2005 at 21:21 (6,910 days old) by kevinpreston3 ()        
Ask and ye shall receive....

For those who love waffle irons

Post# 68095 , Reply# 10   5/25/2005 at 04:38 (6,909 days old) by chachp (North Little Rock, AR)        
I love that Joe too!!!

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Hey All,

Thanks for the replies. It seems like a light buffing may be the way to go. I'm going to check out the cotton buffers for my drill or maybe a Dremel. I've looked at them on line and it seems like a useful tool.

The C50 is great. I have been using a C20 with the cloth filters and it really does make great coffee. I never thought I'd put my Bunn coffeemaker aside, but I have. The C50 also makes great coffee. I am experimenting with and without a paper filter in between the two discs.

Ralph



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