One county heard from in the election results, in the morgan list:

Skip,

As one of the laziest skippers to have ever tugged on a halyard, I have to
give Spotless Stainless (SS) my hardiest recommendation.

Two years ago (after almost a twenty year hiatus from owning a sailboat) I
purchased a 1981 Morgan 321. The dingy davits that came with it were badly
surface rusted - sound, but looked bad. I removed them from the boat
forthwith and they've been in the way in my office for the past two years. I
have occasionally taken a bracket or two out to my garage to attempt
polishing them with all the standards (Magic Wad, Flitz, 3m, etc, etc, etc),
but all attempts had failed - until I came across SS. A couple of weeks ago
I took one of the brackets out to my drive way, and - unbelievable as it
might sound - faithfully followed the application instructions. The results
were astounding. The treated bracket, if not for some surface scratches,
appeared new. Viewed next to one of the untreated brackets the
transformation was astounding.

The best part - the astonishment came not so much from the results, but
largely from the lack of effort to achieve same. I simply "painted" some of
the SS on to the bracket, kept it moist for thirty minutes, then rinsed it
off. This stuff was made for me! I can polish all the stainless on my boat
without spilling my drink!

To be sure, the directions must be followed for the results I achieved with
the bracket. While at the boat a week later I tried a quicky application on
and around my stearnrail with less spectacular results. Still much better
than any other previous attempts with traditional polishes, but not as
experienced with the bracket. I'm sure it was my lack of attention to
keeping the metal moist the entire time, and maybe I tried to do too much at
once. A later, more disciplined application on my wheel yielded the desired
result.

I should state that I have no financial or business affiliation with the
makers of SS. I'm simply a lazy sailor looking for the holy grail of boat
maintenance products. I enjoy sailing, and hate working.

Regards,

Bill Cheadle
s/v en guard


L8R

Skip

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"Flying Pig" wrote in message
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"Spotless stainless steel" reviews?


Any direct or first-hand friends' (you saw it personally) experience with
"Spotless Stainless Steel" (http://www.spotlessstainless.com/) here?

Wrestling with passivation issues and rust removal-and-protection for our
on-board stainless, we examined all the usual options; citric acid (the
active component here) seems to be the most envrionmentally friendly,
least
dangerous, and perhaps the most effective.

Phosporic acid, recommended by a friend who'd had all his new stainless
work
done where that was the pickler, seems to only take off surface rust, and
actually promotes rust in the end on stainless; worse, it attacks
chromium,
not a good thing for making stainless stay bright. Worse still, it's
nasty
for the marine environment, making phospates. It's actually usually used
in
paint prep for non-stainless steel applications.

Nitric acid, while effective, is very user-unfriendly and not so great to
the environment.

So, if it actually works as the company-sponsored reviews state, it looks
like it would be good for us to use on, in particular, the bow roller
welds
mentioned in the St. Augustine log, as they look perfectly awful.

L8R

Skip

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make it come true. You may have to work for it however."
(and)
"There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in
its hand. You seek problems because you need their gifts."

(Richard Bach, in Illusions - The Reluctant Messiah)