Gladiator Cabinets - Stains

[Silvercbr]

Okay all,

I have seen this happen to numerous people's gladiator cabinets, and it is doing it to mine, but does anyone have a solution to getting rid of the staining on the front doors of gladiator cabinets? I understand that I must have had something on my hands, touched the doors, but now it simply won't come off!

You don't see it for the most part at an angle, but when the garage door is up and you look into the garage, they all have staining that looks like garbage!

Any help is appreciated. Damn close to just buying some vinyl wrap and wrapping them in a different color.

 

[Kevin54]

It's the cheap silver paint they put on them. Have you tried waxing the doors to see if that takes care of things? If it doesn't, and I'd only try it on one door, then I'd look into painting them with a more durable paint, or get them powdercoated.

 

[archirelic]

I'd thoroughly wipe them down with a good cleaning agent and spray them with different color. Can't remember where I saw the picture online, but someone was wanting to emulate the series they have out now that has the red diamond plate, but instead of red, they used a really nice blue plastidip spray. They came out looking amazing.

 

[jrhaas60]

anyone ever figure the staining solution out?

 

[Burn1]

I have these cabinets with silver fronts and bought an additional cabinet on a Sears floor model clearance since the price was fantastic. There was some adhesive residue from a sales tag or something that showed up after a summer cycle of heat in the garage. Two ideas:
GoGone to remove glue residue and if that did not work, Plan B: Acetone which will quickly remove the painted area, but just repaint the silver cabinet fronts and call it a day. The GoGone worked and called it done. Used the rest of the bottle to clean a couple pair of sneakers/shoes.

 

[jrhaas60]

I think we’re talking about handprints causing discoloration\stains here. I thought it was a problem with the paint at first. Now others have it.

 

[jim]

I have the same problem here. Who has a cure?

Will be watching.