maby
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You are supposed to use a water based anti-fouling, though - the solvents in regular anti-fouling can damage the plastic in the sender.
Cleaning the log paddle wheel
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You are supposed to use a water based anti-fouling, though - the solvents in regular anti-fouling can damage the plastic in the sender.
pvb
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But they don't damage the plastic (unless perhaps you've got a Nasa product). Been antifouling it with good strong solvent-based stuff for years and years.
colind3782
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You are correct in that's pretty powerful stuff but it's quick!
maby
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Dunno if you can still buy it in this country - used to be sold as "Spirits of Salts". Many years ago, when I was a teenager, we moved house into a very run-down property and my mother was in despair because the toilet had not been cleaned properly in years and had a layer of limescale that must have been millimetres thick. None of the official toilet cleaners had any effect, so we stuffed rags down the U-bend to block it up, then half filled the bowl with that stuff - came out like new!
ianat182
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Try spraying silicone on the paddle wheel and/or the plug and check every two or three trips then respray if necessary. Shouldn't think barnacles or any other beasties would be able to stick on that.
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geoid96
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jakeroyd
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Like many I gave up trying to keep my paddle wheel rotating freely.
I bought a Wasp trailing log off EBay.
This works well part from being a right B astard to keep the line from tangling and of course streaming it from the rail and then forgetting it when you come into a marina etc.
Nothing's perfect
I bought a Wasp trailing log off EBay.
This works well part from being a right B astard to keep the line from tangling and of course streaming it from the rail and then forgetting it when you come into a marina etc.
Nothing's perfect
Upnorth
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Thanks