what do you clean your floats with?
- Thread starter skukum12
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There's some pretty harsh stuff in some of those products.
aktango58
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18AA
Yup, but so does the water that leaves that scum on the floats.
Use gloves or a brush, rinse right after.
cubpilot2
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Anchorage Alaska
Don't know about corrosion. The junk / scum from lake hood is what is corrosive. I have a friend that keeps his cub in Fire Lake at Eagle River and the paint will disappear in two years and then starts to corrode.
It doesn't stay on there long enough to corrode anything. Been using it for years and my floats are doing fine. I use it to wash the fabric after diluting it in the water. Cuts oil film great.
Never saw a water scum line that was caustic, be careful as harsh cleaners can etch a surface and then you're hosed because next time the scum will be even harder to get off, or at least that's how it worked on the dozen or so boats I've had in and around southern fresh water.
Alex Clark
Registered User
Life Long Alaskan
Regular Simple Green is bad for aluminum. They make a special Simple Green for use with aluminum.
https://www.amazon.com/Simple-Green...5982167&sr=8-1&keywords=simple+green+aluminum
DeNaturerd Alcohol and a rag will take off most of the light brown lake scum.
Our lake is super nasty and it is also partly salty. I sometimes use BOAT HULL cleaner. It burns your skin, makes it hard to breath and will blind you if it gets in your eyes. It will also eat a bad paint job. I re-paint my floats,,,, a lot....
https://www.amazon.com/Simple-Green...5982167&sr=8-1&keywords=simple+green+aluminum
DeNaturerd Alcohol and a rag will take off most of the light brown lake scum.
Our lake is super nasty and it is also partly salty. I sometimes use BOAT HULL cleaner. It burns your skin, makes it hard to breath and will blind you if it gets in your eyes. It will also eat a bad paint job. I re-paint my floats,,,, a lot....
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Ron Graham
Registered User
Fast Orange hand cleaner without the Plumice. It also works great on the fuel dye stains. Put some on a car wash brush, dip it in lake to add the water, scrub away and rinse with a pail of lake water. I put some on a soft wet cloth to get in the places the bush can't. Hands come out pretty good to.
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