I just came in from trying to clean 7 that had badly mildewed (being in
storage for 10 years) -- Clorox worked best. I also tried Ajax,
whitewall tire cleaner, and oxy clean. I wiped them all down with
Clorox first, then tried the other things. I'd say Clorox got me 90% as
far as I got -- none of the others did much more. There are still
stains and black marks on them, but not as noticeable.

Dave wrote:
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 21:10:50 GMT, cavelamb said:


I know what you mean. Anyone looking closely at my boat's stern can read the
previous home port easily.

400/600 wet on a board?


Not worth the effort. The color is uniform, so someone looking for the old
home port really does have to look at the raised area as a raised area. And
the former home port is no deep dark secret.

I bought two Taylor heavy duty fenders off of eBay and used "De-Solv-it"
(WalMart) and a stainless steel pot scrubber.

www.orange.sol.com

It is When applied to a dry surface and let sit for 5 or 10 minutes, then
re-misted if drying, followed with a scrubbing and rinsing. If a second
or third round is needed wipe or let dry before more De-Solv-it. After
they were clean I gave them two coats of paste wax.

Last summer we rebuilt the Perkins. While the engine space was opened I
think we used (10) 12oz. bottles of De-Solv-it to cut 30 years of black
grime. We used it as a first round of cleaning on the block and oil pan
as well. De-Solv-it leaves a slightly oily surface if only dry wiped.
So in the engine space we did a fresh water rinse with dry terry wiping
before applying the undercoating and topcoats.

Our interior is oiled teak which was covered with built up layers of
grime. A plastic bristle brush worked inline with the grain cleaned it up
real nice. Wiped off with terry cloth and then waxed.

I think the De-Solv-it is about $3 per 12 oz spray bottle in the household
cleaner's section.

Doug

Correction: www.orange-sol.com


On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:33:58 -0400, Doug wrote:

I bought two Taylor heavy duty fenders off of eBay and used "De-Solv-it"
(WalMart) and a stainless steel pot scrubber.

www.orange.sol.com