Brick cleaner on my props

[paultallett]

Went into my local Wickes today, £12.99 for 5 litres!

£2.99 for 5lts with 25% extra free..... Loughborough Wickes. There was more expensive flavours but I bought the extra tight arsed value bottle!!

 

[gravygraham]

We used some of the non hydrochloric brick cleaner for the first time this winter. It was better than a chocolate teapot but I can't say I was impressed - it still needed quite a bit of scraping after, and it left a bit of a black bloom on the props and rudder. I lightly sanded them when dry and then primed and antifouled. I'll know next winter if it's a big cock-up!

 

[Pinnacle]

The prop should come up looking this good.

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[Stork_III]

The prop should come up looking this good.

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More work needed. Like this.

 

[GrahamHR]

Or how about this; 36%, 5 litres around £19 delivered. Dilute down to 36 litres @ 5%, making 5 litres of the 5% solution around £2.65.

Even cheaper if you go for their 25 litre @ £33 delivered; equivalent to 5 litres @ 36% being £6.60. Diluted down to 180 litres @ 5%, that makes 5 litres @ 5% around £0.92 !

I chose the first option, I can't see me ever needing 180 litres of brick/ prop cleaner !

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hydrochlo...Equipment_Lab_Supplies_ET&hash=item3379f0dfdf

 

[paultallett]

This is the one I used.

Cheap as chips and did better than I expected.


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[MrB]

This is the one I used.

Cheap as chips and did better than I expected.


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That`s patio cleaner not brick and mortar cleaner. lol

 

[paultallett]

That`s patio cleaner not brick and mortar cleaner. lol

And if you read the small print...... admitedly not easy from the picture but also suitable for bricks and mortar cleaning....

 

[Groot T]

I like the "Revitalising" part. Kinda makes me think of conditioner / cosmetics.

Suppose we could start a range of patio cosmetics..?

 

[MrB]

And if you read the small print...... admitedly not easy from the picture but also suitable for bricks and mortar cleaning....

I know that, tell the others that spent an extra tenner on it lol.

 

[Pinnacle]

More work needed. Like this.

Ahhhhh......but I had, by the time the pic was taken, smeared the blades and hub in trailer bearing grease. Hence the "dull" appearance.

No idea if the application of the grease does any good, save to say we have never had more than a very mild layer of crud on the blades at haul-out.

 

[Pinnacle]

Does this look any shiner?

This is the before shot;

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