Tubes faded

[Pikey Dave]

At the end of the day, it'll look loverrrly sat on the trailer on the drive, especially if you dress the trailer tyres too[emoji6]. However, drag it a couple of hundred miles, get some road grime, salt spray, sunlight, fish guts on it & you're back to square one (almost). I've found 303 greatly reduces the tendency of mackerel sh1t to stick like the proverbial.

[jeffstevens763@g]

anybody used this stuff?


https://www.polymarineshop.com/produ...-finish-250ml/

[Xk59D]

Originally Posted by Pikey Dave

At the end of the day, it'll look loverrrly sat on the trailer on the drive, especially if you dress the trailer tyres too[emoji6]. However, drag it a couple of hundred miles, get some road grime, salt spray, sunlight, fish guts on it & you're back to square one (almost). I've found 303 greatly reduces the tendency of mackerel sh1t to stick like the proverbial.

That is where I'm lucky, the clyde is 15 mile drive, oban is about 60 miles and no one fishes from my boat so it stays pretty clean.

[Xk59D]

Originally Posted by jeffstevens763@g

anybody used this stuff?


https://www.polymarineshop.com/produ...-finish-250ml/

Yes, crap on blue and black, don't know about other colours. Was also quite sticky when trying to buff in. I would avoid it personally.

303 is probably the best in terms of ease of use with a decent end result

[Chicane]

Originally Posted by Xk59D

Yes, crap on blue and black, don't know about other colours. Was also quite sticky when trying to buff in. I would avoid it personally.

303 is probably the best in terms of ease of use with a decent end result

Wow....used the 303 and boat looks like new!
I hope the sheen lasts a few weeks, will have to wait and see.

[Xk59D]

Good stuff, glad things worked out

Did you use toluene?

[Kennyboy]

People recommend using toluene, where can you get that from? Google seems to connect it with paint thinners.

[Poly]

Originally Posted by Kennyboy

People recommend using toluene, where can you get that from? Google seems to connect it with paint thinners.

It is a constituent in (car) paint thinners. For “cleaning/restoring” duties the advice used to be to use “gun wash” which you will get in any proper car body paint supplier as the name suggests it is used to wash out spray guns. It is not pure toluene but is accordingly much cheaper. It’s still nasty shit so well ventilated area, gloves, glasses, no naked flames, etc...

[Xk59D]

Most rib repair places sell it, it is nasty stuff for sure but does remove most things.

[Orwell boy]

only a hunch but when cleaning hypalon recently i tried various thinners from the shed ,and the only one that made a job of it was Lidl thinners Baumautic or something similar ,so my hunch is lidl thinners is toulene based ,now that will save a few on here a few quid if anybody agrees !!!!

[glue jug]

Bostik Thinners 501 is the one .