Refinishing options for metal sink drainplug?
I had been trying, in vain, to find a replacement plug for days.
Hence I was looking towards refinishing options.
Due to Corona lockdown all shops here are closed. Plumbing suppliers with a web-shop still do mail-order, but I wasn't having any luck finding a match for the plug.
I resorted to emailing/chatting to customer support on various webshops without much success. And I started calling every plumbing supplies and installation outfit in a 50 mile radius.
Miracles do happen apparently...
Called supplier nr. 15 on the list.
The lady there started to laugh about halfway into my story. Turned out she had exactly the same vanity at home and the same scratching problem 2 years ago.
She also had the solution.
When the original factory closed 10 years ago the inventory and designs were bought by the company Grohe, who integrated them in their own sub-brand called &quot;Ben&quot;.
They still make them. Slightly different plastic base nowadays, but it fits.
The reason I couldn't find anything online... Grohe calls these &quot;waste plug&quot; instead of &quot;drain plug&quot;, so you never find them in an online search unless you happen to know you need to look for &quot;waste plug&quot;.
Additional confusion is caused by the fact that Grohe calls this a 5/4&quot; plug, but that doesn't match any of the actual dimensions of the plug. 5/4&quot; happens to be the size of the pipe-fitting on the siphon that goes under the sink.
So I got my replacement ordered and I can forget about refinishing the original plug.