Polishing the plunger

Don't worry about the title!

The plunger housing I got with the Magic Castle backbox was a bit rusty looking, but I decided to polish it in the tumbler.

The all-important "before" shots..

I was hoping to awe you all with some fantastic "after" shots, but it turned out just ok. It may not be very visible in the pictures, but there were some spots I just couldn't remove, neither with the tumbler or with good old manual polishing with Autosol.

Still, I don't think anyone (or me, for that matter) will notice it while playing, and I think this is as good as it will get without actually re-chroming it.

The worst part, though, is that the screws don't fit the housing. It seems the threads are some kind of southern European non-standard, and I can't find matching screws anywhere!

I'll do a last attempt in a specialist hardware store, and after that I'll just have to order three screws from Italy.