Polisher

Easticks28 said:
That's the Silverline I and others have referred to - except it's got the Clarke name , and the customary machine Mart red casing of course. Oh , and at least another £25 .
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No mine is FAR superior! Well, there is a handy port for changing the motor brushes anyway. But china made is all part bins of very similar parts, these ones all probably made in the car polisher district of the rotory electric hand tools city. Clarke is probably big enough to send someone over to specify which parts rather than off the shelf polisher and rebadge, and seems like not always the very cheapest parts so might be fractionally better than generic polisher off ebay which looks about the same but whose producer/marketer specified the very very cheapest of everything inside from the maker. Silverline aren't bad usually in my experience. Milwaukee are my go to for often used tools, also china made but not from parts bins but own designs mostly of original components I think. Though china bless em will copy their designs and sell the same thing for less soon enough. Thats the price we pay for cheap manufacturing, absolute theft of IP
 
On a related note, can anyone recommend a set of sponges/whatever to go with a Silverline polisher? There is a bewildering selection on Amazon ...
 
JumbleDuck said:
On a related note, can anyone recommend a set of sponges/whatever to go with a Silverline polisher? There is a bewildering selection on Amazon ...
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I get my supplies of that type from this place Color Werx Ltd but any trade supplier will do. They can't sell people the low end stuff you might buy on amazon that falls apart if they want to stay in business. And are not much more expensive. I'm actually finding the prices on amazon for a lot of things are not cheap now that so many people habitually go there expecting it to be the cheapest place without checking around. Same happened with Ikea. Once everyone assumed ikea stuff was a bargain the prices went up.
 
West Coast said:
Which Meguiars products have you found to work best on marine fibreglass hulls?
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I use start with a coat of Meguiars #45 Polish, then buff it off with stockinette cloth. Then a repeat coat of the Polish and buff it off. Then a coat of #56 Pure Wax, again buffed off. And finally a repeat coat of Pure Wax. Both products are liquids which are easy to apply by hand, and they buff off easily too. I do this every 2 years, and the boat stays in the water the rest of the time.

I've been using these for years. I first became aware of them when I asked the yard guys at Fox's Marina in Ipswich what they used to get such a good finish on the Oysters in the yard.
 
Lightwave395 said:
I run a line from bow to stern and have a short, thick piece of shockcord suspending the polisher from it with a sliding hook. Not perfect but it relieves the weight enough for an old man to use...
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If we still had our monohull I'd be happy - bungee has always been helpful. Unfortunately I'm not sure if we want to polish the insides of the hulls and the bridgedeck then I think rigging a line is going to be difficult. As pessimist says - difficult decision !
 
pragmatist said:
If we still had our monohull I'd be happy - bungee has always been helpful. Unfortunately I'm not sure if we want to polish the insides of the hulls and the bridgedeck then I think rigging a line is going to be difficult. As pessimist says - difficult decision !
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Yes, however, I don't find using it polishing cockpit / coachroof and other deck side areas a weight problem, it's only trying to hold it above my head and vertically that knackers me. It's bad enough polishing a monohull, suppose maybe not many people can see the inside of the hulls on a cat...!
 
pvb said:
I use start with a coat of Meguiars #45 Polish, then buff it off with stockinette cloth. Then a repeat coat of the Polish and buff it off. Then a coat of #56 Pure Wax, again buffed off. And finally a repeat coat of Pure Wax. Both products are liquids which are easy to apply by hand, and they buff off easily too. I do this every 2 years, and the boat stays in the water the rest of the time.

I've been using these for years. I first became aware of them when I asked the yard guys at Fox's Marina in Ipswich what they used to get such a good finish on the Oysters in the yard.
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Can I ask one of you guys what's an appropriate quantity of polish and wax for a 45 foot monohull? thx!
 
I imagined I needed a da polisher and went on Detailing World where all the hard core car polishers hang out. I bought the most affordable one recommended and then found that after visiting the polish companies web site on how to use their product I could get a better result by hand. You really can. You have to do the wash, polish, wax routine but it does work. So I think pvb is doing it right.
 
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I bought a Silverline five years ago when my boat was in the shed. I hadn't realised it was so long - time to do it again.

But the Silverline has proved extremely useful many times every year since, in other uses - with sanding pads instead of soft polishers.

At under £30, it was a real bargain.
 
Lucy52 said:
I imagined I needed a da polisher and went on Detailing World where all the hard core car polishers hang out. I bought the most affordable one recommended and then found that after visiting the polish companies web site on how to use their product I could get a better result by hand. You really can. You have to do the wash, polish, wax routine but it does work. So I think pvb is doing it right.
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Maybe! My concern with polishers is two-fold. Firstly, they can be quite hard work to use. Secondly, it's possible to introduce swirl marks into the fragile gelcoat if you're not very careful.
 
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