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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jeff Drum, post: 4346116, member: 6444&quot;]So due to the suggestions here and on the internet, I tried vaseline in a corner of the back, but it didn&#039;t make any difference after wiping off. And spit, though a good cleaner, can&#039;t restore a surface finish once it is damaged.</p><p><br /></p><p>Debora, THANKS for finding the same model. I had assumed that wasn&#039;t possible. Unfortunately they don&#039;t have a date or model name, probably none exists.</p><p><br /></p><p>As to just giving up, that is always an option. My investment is $0 other than cleaning time so nothing lost. The problem is that I like fixing things, and fixing them correctly. I am used to dealing with wood, another organic material that is typically given a hard finish coating. If this was wood, I would want to sand off or chemically remove some or all of the coating, then renew with a similar coating on top. It seems like there should be something available to do this?</p><p><br /></p><p>I came across a material called &quot;Charles Stewart Patent Leather Restorer&quot; which sounds like it is what I am looking for - described by a reviewer as a &quot;black gel type nail varnish&quot;. Would be worth a shot, especially if anyone here had tried it. It is cheap (6 pounds), but they ship only to the UK, either direct from the company or on ebay, so I can&#039;t figure out any way to get it here in the US. I was hoping someone here has tried something like this that has worked?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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