Acid or Sand - Clean Props

[tripleace]

after all the posts about acid and chemical on props, I used a water pressure washer and a sand blasting attachment.

bag of sand £9.99 (B&Q) half of it left

60 mins in time

before

after

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[Happy1]

It's not April 1st anymore!!

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[DavidJ]

They look superb. I hope you've kept the matched pairs together.
David

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[tripleace]

yes engineer marked each set.....not with acid I add.

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[Alistairr]

Great results.
What kind off pressure washer do you have and is it a standard blasting attachment, the results show that it may be a good investment.

I think i might have to go out and buy one.

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[tripleace]

just a normal home pressure washer and the sand blaster attachment.

its about £40 quid for the attachment


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[Alistairr]

Something like a Kerscher or a B&Q special.

Sub a £100 or Plus £100?

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[tripleace]

I have a clark one which uses the KEW attachements.

link to a company that sells the attachments.

I have just found them on the web so no recomendation. Its just to show the price and model.

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[Alistairr]

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[duncan]

did you use it on the drives as well?

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[tripleace]

not yet,

wanted to see how the props went first.

I would want to mask up outdrives because of the sand getting in.


I will however be using it to get the antifouling off (the chalk build up)

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[duncan]

looking around it seems that Karcher do a wet blasting kit for all their's as well so I might play with it - need a tool to remove the BIII props as well though!

I have to say yours look superb - now I suppose it's on with the anhydrous lanolin or are you planning to use that teflon based antifouling?

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[tripleace]

nothing just stainless,



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[duncan]

so are mine and however I polish them they foul, with green weed mainly, in 3 weeks in the summer.
I kid myself I enjoy scrubbing them of with a scourer anchored off Studland everytime I do it but I would rather be in the Banks Arms (or fishing)!

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[ArthurWood]

Duncan- I know how you feel. Took my boat out yesterday and anchored hoping to scrape props. Got into water, but too choppy, didn't want my head bashed by swim platform, so came back to marina and scraped. I think I'll go back to paying a diver $55 to do the job.

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