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| What do you guy's use to get off the tough water spots on your Motor Cowls?
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Location: Kodiak, AK | I always wipe my boat down at the ramp with BBS. I use Windex without amonia to get the water spots off my Lowrance screens....I'd reckon it'd get spots off other stuff too. |
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Location: Red Wing, Minnesota | I wash the boat to remove sand/dirt, grease, etc. Then I fill a spray bottle with a 50/50 mix of water and white vinegar. I spray down small areas at a time and wipe spots off with a soft clean cotton cloth. It really does an excellent job of removing water spots. After I'm done, I rinse the boat and dry it. I then wax with Nufinish. There are commercial products that remove these spots very well, but vinegar is cheap and works!
P.S. Wiping down your boat at end of the day slows down the rate of spot build-up.
Edited by Spallgard 6/30/2009 11:41 AM
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Location: Algonquin, ILL | Lance: Water & Vinegar works great, Has multiple uses 
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Location: Birch Run | If you have some water or scum spots that won't come off with the options mentioned above, try comet works great. |
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| 4:1 ratio of "The Works" mixed with water in a sprayer. Works great! |
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| These products are over on Walleye Central and work absolutely wonderfully. You can search some posts over there to read the reviews. Use the Wonderfoam to get rid of the tough water spots, then go over it with the Restore boat and it will be as shiny as the showroom floor. Just be sure to follow the directions on the Wonderfoam. I also use both products on the rest of the outside of my fiberglass to make her all sparkly again. |
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Location: Twin Cities, MN | I 2nd the wonderfoam and restore, it is very good cleaning stuff.
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Location: Lebanon,Mo | I like the water/vinegar mix for spots.Dont wait till the season is over to do it,but about every second or third time you pull the boat out.It's alot easier to keep up with it rather than let it build up to where it wont come off at all without using heavy chemicals. |
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| Limeaway works well too. I have had to do the scumline on my boat three times the last two weeks due to the hot sun we had last week. Just take a damp sponge, pour some Limeaway on the sponge and wipe away. Then rinse with water, then make sure you wax it after wards.
Hope this helps,
Lee Tauchen
http://LeeTauchen.com
http://LeeLures.com |
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| Try CLR, it works great! |
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Location: Brookfield, WI | A Shamwow and some Mr. Clean works on the Moomba. Keeps everything nice and shiny. The chicks like the Moomba shiny.
Kevin
How about no sales tax on golf club purchases? |
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Location: WI | Try this website:
http://www.larsensales.com/
I have the Wonderfoam and Restore Liquids and it works very well.
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| Lee Tauchen - 7/2/2009 10:21 AM
Limeaway works well too. I have had to do the scumline on my boat three times the last two weeks due to the hot sun we had last week. Just take a damp sponge, pour some Limeaway on the sponge and wipe away. Then rinse with water, then make sure you wax it after wards.
Hope this helps,
Lee Tauchen
http://LeeTauchen.com
http://LeeLures.com
Just used Limeaway and it is unbelieveable. Great stuff. I also used it on my lowrance screen and it worked. I was a little leary but no problem and all spots were gone instantly. A couple drops will clean it. |
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| i've used about everything mentioned above, cheapest is probably the water/vinegar mix..works great, CLR works great and Limeway is basically the same stuff...
The Works also does the job
Bass Boat saver after every use will keep your fiberglass and motor cowling mostly spot free...
Pledge all purpose wipes come in handy in the boat to clean the LCD screens every day/use....
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Location: Ohio | I have a pretty good scumline on my boat and will have to give these a try.
I just bought the boat 6 weeks ago and the previous owner must have never heard of wax or cleaner 
Edited to add: The scumline is the green staining on the bottom of the boat and up the side a partial way right? and will the White Vinegar & Water take this green scum off pretty easy?
What kind of Rag do you use to scrub this stuff off, any rag or some type of pad?
Thank You ALL
Edited by Magic8Ball 7/12/2009 11:11 PM
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| Just read this same post and after doing so got out the White vinegar and water. I would say that I over did it on the vinegar but yes it worked. I used a toothbrush. And for the toucher spots a cheap scouring pad. I would recomend the cheap one though it seams to be much less abrasive than say your scotch pad. It didn't take much. When the scum still was not coming off I'd let the solution sit for a bit then come back to it. If I still had a trouble area I got out the shower cleaner. Only took 4 hours to wash the whole boat with a toothbrush. But now she's beautiful. Don't know if it matter I was washing a 17' LUND. I don't know if the suggestions differ for fiberglass. |
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Location: minnesota | vinager and water works good, But I use scrubbing bubbles spray it on the rag and wipe it of at the landing, at home spray it on wipe it down and rinse it off let those little bubbles do the work. boat, motor, trailer, even keeps the rims shinny. no spots. |
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| i would suggest NOT using any kind of scrubbing pad on fiberglass...too abrasive and it will leave hairline scratches in the gel coat...soft cotton rags do the job.... |
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