Mother's Mag & Aluminum Polish
I'm sure many of you more experienced folks know this already, but this stuff works GREAT on razors. I have an as-yet unidentified razor that I recently acquired from the 'Bay and I wanted to clean it up for a nice vintage restore. I didn't have any metal polish at home, and it was 4:00 AM when I left work, so I stopped by Wally World to see what I could find. I decided on a whim to try this stuff with a blue "shop" paper towel by hand, and it worked like a champ! Took the patina off, and I used it to clean up and lightly polish the scales as well. So, if you get stuck in a pinch and don't have any Maas/Simichrome/Flitz or whatever you normally use, give it a shot, you might be pleasantly surprised!