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Dave D. 
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 Topic: Polishing running gear?Posted: August-25-2008 at 3:26pm |
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Since I know you guys would know...what is the best way to polish the rudder, strut and prop to bring back the "like new" shine to those parts? Any ideas?
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Tim D
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Posted: August-25-2008 at 3:58pm |
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Blue Magic is a good brand, wally world carried it at one time. But I don't waste my time to polish that stuff.
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k.o.
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Posted: August-25-2008 at 7:12pm |
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you can polish it but i'll give it a week and it will be the same as before you polished it
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JoeinNY
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Posted: August-25-2008 at 7:57pm |
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Took about 4 days for my new stuff to look not new, maybe theres a wax or something that would give you a bit more time but unless someone knows of it here I would agree that polishing is not worth the effort... |
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eric lavine
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Posted: August-25-2008 at 8:23pm |
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wire wheel on a die grinder, 10 minutes and your done
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"the things you own will start to own you"
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Randy_in_Ohio
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Posted: August-26-2008 at 3:23am |
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I used some 3M Super Duty compound on an old wool pad with the high speed buffer. It looks a whole lot better than it did when I got it and it is still looking pretty good after all summer in and out of the water.
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eric lavine
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Posted: August-26-2008 at 10:23am |
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Randy, never got a report back
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"the things you own will start to own you"
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Randy_in_Ohio
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Posted: August-26-2008 at 3:06pm |
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yes you did! I reported back in the thread which I started... I'll dig it back up and give it a bump.
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behindpropeller
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Posted: August-26-2008 at 8:07pm |
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I thought about it once and concluded that it was a waste of time since you have to get on your hands and knees to look under there.
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Posted: August-27-2008 at 12:10am |
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What more needs to be said? |
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behindpropeller
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Posted: August-27-2008 at 12:15am |
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Sorry Chris. I think we have different ideas of "polished" 
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eric lavine
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Posted: August-27-2008 at 10:06am |
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he's refering to candle waxing
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