Cleaning recommendations please

[ColinHuggins]

what have you found to be proven products for cleaning
(a) stainless steel grabrails, stanchions etc.
(b) old fenders?

All suggestions welcome.

 

[moody1]

a) CIF or Barmans Friend
b) T-Cut or other mild cutting fluid.

 

[Ruffles]

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(a) Brasso
(b) SWMBO

 

[mormargh]

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[Ruffles]

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Form a queue - she hasn't done ours yet. But then I haven't summoned up courage to ask her either.

 

[MoodySabre]

Autosol used to be the thing for polishing the chrome on the car when cars had chrome. Should do well on stainless. I must get some!

I was given a free sample of fender restorer at the boat show a couple of years ago. It obviously contains (or is) acetate as the surface goes slimy whilst using it. Yuk.

 

[vyv_cox]

We clean all stainless steel tubing, i.e pushpit, pulpit, stanchions, bimini frame, with Creme Cleaner. Far better than specialist stainless cleaners and a fraction of the price. Black streak remover is fairly good on fenders.

 

[npf1]

Got oodles of stainless on my boat so I've tried a few things over the years. Flitz is good, very similar to Autosol. Unless it's badly rusted in which case I use an acid based cleaner - can't remember the name but I've still got a tub somewhere if you want to know - that came from a welding supplies place.

I then put on a thin film of microcrystalline wax on the few areas (which must be A2 I guess) that tended to rust - this has worked a treat.

For the fenders, the 'RIB and Fender cleaner' available from swindleries is very good. Or Fairy Power spray for heavily gunked up ones. I then used the polymarine vinyl polish in the hope that it helps to keep them clean or makes them easier to clean next time - time will tell.

 

[alan17]

Re fender cleaner.
The best that I have found so far is oven cleaner (Mr Muscle)
Still not easy.

 

[Captain Coochie]

Lemon Jif worked well on the hull of my boat . I'm sure i did the fenders aswell but it was a while ago and still looks clean without any polish after .