to antifoul or not to antifoul, that is the question......

[chubby]

props that is, last year we antifouled with boot topping style anti fouling and it attracted a vertitable ecosystem of marine life, so this year, off with the old, polish the metal and on with a lanolin preparation called lanocote: you smear it on, heat with a hot air gun and paint it over...question is will it work...watch this space!

 

[Robin]

We lifted out a week ago and the prop was clean save for a light scale. Today I wiped the light scale away with 'Harpic loo cleaner with limescale remover', rubbed it down with with 1000 grit wet/dry and bright polished it again with Brasso, 3 bladed Brunton prop, total time just one hour. I will polish again with Brasso immediately before lift-in to remove any tarnishing over the week because it really has to be mirror finish but nobody I know has come out cleaner using antifoul, lanolin or any of the expensive prop treatments.

I will lay odds our prop is clean again next year. [/smug comments]

 

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We lifted out a week ago and the prop was clean save for a light scale. Today I wiped the light scale away with 'Harpic loo cleaner with limescale remover', rubbed it down with with 1000 grit wet/dry and bright polished it again with Brasso, 3 bladed Brunton prop, total time just one hour. I will polish again with Brasso immediately before lift-in to remove any tarnishing over the week because it really has to be mirror finish but nobody I know has come out cleaner using antifoul, lanolin or any of the expensive prop treatments.

I will lay odds our prop is clean again next year. [/smug comments]

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Good ol' Loo Lime scale remover !!! Get's it everytime !

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[catmandoo]

tried lanolin last year . Waste of time washed off both props . Even applied with heat

 

[pessimist]

Tried lanolin two or three years ago. Looked quite nice bobbing in the wake as we motored away after a lift in......

 

[Robin]

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Tried lanolin two or three years ago. Looked quite nice bobbing in the wake as we motored away after a lift in......

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You were supposed to separate it from the sheep first before applying it. Not that it works any better though. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[pessimist]

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Tried lanolin two or three years ago. Looked quite nice bobbing in the wake as we motored away after a lift in......

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You were supposed to separate it from the sheep first before applying it. Not that it works any better though. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

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Pardon me, old chap. Up here on Exmoor we try hard not to separate anything from our sheep....

Anyway you'd have to buy a separate brush if you extracted the lanolin first. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif