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Skip Gundlach
 
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Default Cleaning Hypalon dinghy?

Some agreement points and amplification:

My dinghy service (also the life raft servicer on the free raft I gave away)
joint makes them look new by doing a thorough scrub with acetone and 3M
scrubbie-with-a-handle, followed by 303 protectant. I expect they also
first "clean" it - my most successful cleaner was Purple Power; Simple Green
has not proven itself to me, this included, in *any* environment, to be
superior to nearly anything else I've tried. My first scrub was SG, to
little avail; just spritzing on PP gave rivulets of added clean spots, and
the scrubbie made it white. However, without solvent level cleaning, and
sealing/protecting, it went back to chalky very quickly (months). Back to
the Acetone/303...

Amazing transformation; we'll do it on ours once we actually get close
enough to splashing for Lydia to join me on the boat. The usual avalanche
of photos will follow :{))

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L8R

Skip

Morgan 461 #2
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much worth doing as simply messing, messing-about-in-boats; messing about in
boats-or *with* boats.
In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that's
the charm of it.
Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your
destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get
anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in
particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and
you can do it if you like, but you'd much better not."

"Paddy Malone" wrote in message
. ..
I agree with Ed - make a paste with Soft Scrub and a little water, apply
with a scrubbing brush and let dry in the sun for a couple of hours. Then
go over it with the brush and more water and rinse off as you go. I then
spray Aerospace protectant on after it dries.

Cheers
"RW Salnick" wrote in message
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Our brand new (well, two years old now...) dinghy is looking a little
dingy.

Does anyone have any suggestions for cleaning a hypalon dinghy? Will
bleach hurt the hypalon?

Note that cleaning materials that work on PVC (or decitrex) may harm
Hypalon and vice versa. I am interested in hypalon cleaners...

Also note that I have been specifically advised to avoid cleaners which
contain silicones (eg ArmorAll) to minimize problems with future patches

bob
s/v Eolian
Seattle