Hull Cleaner

[mainsale0]

It is sad but the season is drawing to a close and thoughts go to laying up.
Does anyone have any experience of using traffic film remover to clean the hull? If it works it has to be a lot cheaper than buying a bottle of something with "boat" in the name.

 

[BrendanS]

oxalic acid . even cheaper and a damn site more effective

 

[Lakesailor]

it'll take more than a bottle of oxalic acid to clean up Hull.

 

[Eightball]

yes meths will shift most of it we use it all time in our boat repair yard cost 1dollar per lit cheap as chips

 

[BrendanS]

why?

 

[Lakesailor]

Have you been to Hull?
I had a business that spent 4 years trying to clean just some of the city's industrial companies' drains.
And that's what you can't see.

 

[roger]

If you mean the nasty wellow orange stain we often get, then we find Hempel Gel coat cleaner pretty good. I've only bought it in Germany so no nothing of its availability in the UK.
It comes as a 1/2 litre (guess) pot full of off white flaky crystals. I learnt about it from the Instructors At the British Kiel Yacht Club who have to get boats ready for white glove inspections after every trip.

 

[Vara]

Guess, purely a guess that will be Oxalic then,wait until google search is applied and look in the forums loads of details and suppliers.Available http://www.agwoodcare.co.uk/show_product.php?id=106.Follow instructions,if putting on vertical surfaces add wall paper paste for stickability,for stubborn stains put cling film over gel and leave to soak.

NB,poisonous so read label carefully!

 

[BrendanS]

ah, gottcha now. I was still thinking in terms of the hull of his boat

 

[tcm]

um, in a straight comp between oxalic acid and traffic film remover (which i assume is the same as "truckwash and also hlb's "boat remover") the latter is more effcetive in my (dare i say) wider experience of cleaning a big boat with a crinkly deck under a flight path.

so i wd try the traffic film remover, no prob. Anyway oxalic acid quite expensive, but good for removing rust i must say.

 

[BrendanS]

In my defence, he did say hull, not deck

So, while you may have more experience with bigger d*cks than I can lay claim to, my response was a bit more accurate

 

[duncan]

depends which one tcm, I have a 22ltr container of comercial 'Comma truck clean - traffic film remover' and whilst it is good at cleaning paint, glass and grp surfaces it doesn't get at the stains in the way oxalic acid does at all.

I don't think hlb's stuff is the same stuff however - that appears from descriptions to be more like a solution of nitric acid and bleach working in harmony .......... I really would like to test some of it on my 'ultimate cleaner test bench' - the conservatory roof, next to a railway embankment and under an oak tree. The resultant sap, electrical conductivity grease, metal brake dust mix is impossible to shift with anything I have tried yet and it's brillo pads and creamcleaner a sq" at a time............ /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[tcm]

oh well, altho i have no commercial interest, i can confirm that his stuff easily gets rid of the dirt covering the cack-ridden hovel er conservatory which you describe. Just order a bit to start wiv, praps.