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Post by CoolBreeze on Jun 5, 2006 12:01:31 GMT -4
VIM with a brush works really well
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don
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Post by don on Jun 5, 2006 17:00:04 GMT -4
Former skipper loved VIM, so we used it regularly.
Trouble is..he decided that the VIM with Bleach would be even better...but his navy blue dodger didn't think so.
If anyone decides to use the VIM with Bleach...make sure you remove any fabric that can be affected.
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Post by CoolBreeze on Jun 5, 2006 17:05:37 GMT -4
good call!!
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Post by robertd on Jun 5, 2006 21:54:00 GMT -4
I'll add VIM to my grocery list
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Post by brianpickton on Jun 6, 2006 12:53:25 GMT -4
Another product that we were really pleased with was Simple Green, available at some hardware stores, and I think I found it at Janitor Supply in Burnside as well. It is a water activated emulsion that works like soap, but isn't. You can mix the concentrate down to 50 to 1 and still get a great result. One tough job we used it on was an oil soaked power cord that had dipped about 50 feet of its length into the water at the marina we were in in Fort Lauderdale. Simple Green cleaned it easily, you would not have believed it. From an oily tarry mess too nearly as good as new when we finished. Over the years we tried a lot of different products on The Legend but never found anything that worked better on really tough grime on the hull and fenders, including VIM and several other products.
Brian Pickton
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Post by brianpickton on Jun 8, 2006 8:49:22 GMT -4
I did a quick double check and Simple Green is available at Canadian Tire. Got feedback from Mike Whitehouse of RNSYA who had some work done on his boat at a shop and then leftit on the hard for two years while hr went to China, etc. the boat had bad grime stains soe=wn the hull and this took them off for him. to be fair to the VIM supporters I found it worked well on the light to medium stains but for the heavy lifting Simple Green required a lot less elbow work. If Simple Green didn't work the next step meant going to an abrasive polshing compound like Maguire's boat cleaner, although I found 3M had an excellent progressive cleaner system that started with a very fine abrasive and worked up through ever more aggressive levels of abrasion as need required. The scratches would then have to be polished out using the less aggressive steps in the system.
Brian Pickton
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