Put them in Evapo-Rust over night. In the morning, rinse the parts off with warm water and dry them. Now polish them up with either Brasso, chrome polish, or Simichrome metal polish and they will look great again.
Evapo-rust or any other de-scaler is the first step of a 3-step process for me.
2nd step is sanding/rubbing with scotch brite (green side) soaked in a powerful cleaner to remove excess rust OR glass-blasting when the rust is too deep
3rd step is metal polising in a bench grinder with canton flannel wheel, and buffing compound for non-ferrous metals.
this way I get perfectly new and polished metals
Update. First of all, I'm no expert. Based on responses and research, did the Evapo-rust, scotch brite, metal polish by hand, polish by drill attachment and finally tried using HF buffing wheel using the black compound. Here's the outcome. Not a whole lot better in my opinion. I've repainted/stenciled the cabinet so now the door frame sticks out like a dog. What's the best way to get rid of the pitting?
You could "regrain" them with a coarse brown Scotchbright pad. Move the same area of the pad going the same direction to keep the grain in the right direction.
I've done this with badly scratched side rails (nails removed of course).
oooooops... Indeed the first photo you posted misled me. The pits from rust must be really really deep! You could regrain them as mentioned with a belt sander (not by hand or drill), but this would take time and it'll maybe make the metal more brittle (less fat).
To be honest, I would buy new.
Marco (in my experience) has excellent customer support. Mail them for details about the product
Rustolem (sp?) "Hammered" paint, is an $7 option with those, pitted in that condition vs. buying new.
+1 to hammered paint. It will hide the pitting.. well at least make it look better. That will take a lot of work to remove otherwise.. you'd have to coarse sand down to deepest pit depth, then sand up in grit and repolish. Vs paint that could actually make it look pretty cool and take 10 minutes
Marcos advises that the Bally Trim they carry won't work on a Williams (they look real similar to me) and said it's not looking good for any Williams to be reproduced. I guess I'll see how the door polishes and then decide whether to paint, polish or punt the old trim. Unless someone knows where else I could find a set?
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