TSB240
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Has anyone actually had any experience of using Egg white as an alternative to lanolin to antifoul their prop?
Egg White?
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Spirit (of Glenans)
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solent clown
RIP
You can't beat it
Oh dear lord!
pvb
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Malabarista
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You can't beat it
Surely on a prop it would beat itself?
Malabarista
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I would think that the yolk is a lot more dishwasher proof than the white
TSB240
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This was a serious enquiry. No yolking please!
Daydream believer
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No , of course not. If you have shelled out for a dozen eggs you do not want people cracking yokes
So lets lay that to rest straight away
So when it all boils down to it we need to prop this post up with some serious comment & leave the foul stuff for the lounge
I can see you all scrambling to help . lets see how it pans out
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DownWest
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IIRR Peter Scott used a 'secret' mix of egg white and something else that they coated their National 12 as an anti friction just before launching for a race. He said that it probably washed off in a couple of minutes, but it certainly phsyced out the other crews....
JumbleDuck
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I tried it, but the effort of beating the stuff was too much for the Filipino seaman I hired to do the job and he keeled over with heat exhaustion.
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RichardS
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johnalison
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Fowl stuff?
Richard
A storm in an egg-cup.
Hydrozoan
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Copper bowls are recommended for stabilizing whipped egg whites because of copper binding to sulfur-containing proteins, so perhaps it sticks a bit better to props than to hulls.
catmandoo
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bread crumbs and all ?
TSB240
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Thank you for the first and probably last sensible and logical answer on this post......I have been told by an old salt that application of 4 coats letting it dry fully between coats will give 12 months protection.
I will have to ask him if I should use double yolkers on twin props?
lpdsn
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He's just been egging you on.
Seriously, take your prop off, give it the treatment he recommends then run it through the dishwasher a few times and see how it comes out. You can report the results of your experiments back here.
Biggles Wader
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Make sure you put the two props back the right way round without scrambling them.
Spirit (of Glenans)
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PuffTheMagicDragon
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It would certainly be cheaper...
...and probably just as (in)effective as all the prop antifouls that I have tried over the years!
...and probably just as (in)effective as all the prop antifouls that I have tried over the years!
Champagne Murphy
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A meringue a day keeps the barnacles away?
