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dotnmarty

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Well, my boat was in the water for about 4 months. I brought it home today and did the preliminary clean-up. Easy with a genuine car wash liquid, a soft brush on the end of my boatpole and a gentle hosing. Everything cleaned up, including the $800 bottom paint we got when we were in the salt water in Everett. The boat obviously lists to port, because of weight distrbution and, I guess, tying up on that side. So the scum line, or crud, if you prefer, wouldnt come off on the port. I went over it again with a sponge-nothing. Then, after I checked to see that Dotty wasn't watching, I tried the power washer, first with a fan, then with a pinpoint. Nada! I told Dotty, she looked up from her book in her recliner and said "Try the Collonite Fiberglass Cleaner # 920." Back to her book. Well to make along story a little less long, it works like a charm. I of course didn't bother with the directions, just applied it with a wet sponge, waited 2 minutes, brushed and rinsed it off. Shazam!
 
MSDS for Colinte 920 shows:
Solvent: (Only) Petroleum Hydrocarbon (DX 3641 Naptha)
2. Morpholine: NH(CH2)2O(CH2)2- (heterocyclic)
3. Silica(Flux calcined diatomaceous earth)
4. Residual Benzene
5. Residual Acrylic Acid

Sounds like it should clean things up fairly well!
 
Whew -- with the title SCUM, I thot for a minute we'd need Bill or Mike to freeze the post -- whew!

Marty -- Are you taking Dotty out for a nice dinner tonight?

And Thataway Bob -- you're a doc, right? I'm having a colonoscopy soon and looking for a good 'cleaner.' That collonite you say "should clean things up" sounds great -- can I mix it with a little soda for a sundowner the night before the test?
 
Bill- I had a colonoscopy at the VA a few months ago. I was really worried and then it was over. I don't remember a thing. Jeez,The worst thing about it was that crap (sorry Potter Stewart) you have to drink. Can't somebody invent a better tasting laxative? I remember that choclate stuff my mother would give me after I threw up the cod liver oil. But, as Dotty says, "enough about me". :smilep
 
El and Bill":hs3bzeo5 said:
Whew -- with the title SCUM, I thot for a minute we'd need Bill or Mike to freeze the post -- whew!
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Whew also. I saw the title and assumed it was about me :wink:. Glad to find out it wasn't.
 
Roger-While I have you on the phone- can you give me a test for the 'common sense gene'? You know, if 920 is good, maybe 921 is even better-920, 921, whatever it takes! :idea:
 
Marty,

I'm still a little bit of a young guy (especially relative to Dusty :wink: ) but in my limited life experience I think common sense is a misnomer - it's really not that common. Also common sense is in the eye of the beholder. One person's common sense is another's definition of stupidity. So, to be brief, I'm not sure I could design a test for common sense since
1) It's actually rather rare,
2) The phenotype is highly variable.
3) I don't have any myself so I wouldn't know it if I saw it.

Roger
 
BTW - here's a few quotes I found on the net regarding "common sense"

Albert Einstein":2vz9ogxp said:
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe":2vz9ogxp said:
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
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Henry Ward Beecher":2vz9ogxp said:
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
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Robert Green Ingersoll":2vz9ogxp said:
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
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(I agree with that one and note that the two are not mutually exclusive).

Will Rogers and Voltaire using different language":2vz9ogxp said:
Common sense ain't common.
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And one more unrelated one (but one that seems relevant now) -
Rudyard Kipling":2vz9ogxp said:
I always try to believe the best of everybody -- it saves so much trouble.
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That's a good one to remember....
 
It doesn't surprise me to hear that a Collinite's product worked out well. I have used their fleet wax on different fiberglass boats and it worked great for me. On the hardtop of my old Glasply, tired gelcoat and all, it would bead water for an entire year with one application. Used to be sold at the BoatUS store in Seattle before they closed. Anyone know where to buy this in the W. Washington area? Mike.
 
Marty,
I think I know the name of that stuff you had to drink. At least for a long time it was common to use a product called, yep you guessed it, "GoLitly" wouldn't you know. Now naming it THAT took a whole bunch of "Common Sense".

Sure glad you were able to get rid of that scum line. I will be looking for that Colinte 920, it sounds like good stuff.
Harvey
SleepyC :moon
 
I also have the "Collinite's No. 925" , Figberglass boat wax. That also does a great job also. Sometime ago there was a discussion about this product. I'll bet lots of Brats use it.
 
Ahh... guys just one thing. Who is Potter Stewart? After I post this I will try to look it up on the web... I like the thread on common sense. My grandfather had a third grade education and could "cipher" (as he called it) with the best of'em. After six years of higher education in the sciences and a mature 58 years under my belt (actually lopping over my belt), he is still the most intellegent man I have ever had the pleasure to meet.
Wisdom from the heart trumps intellegence from the brain any time in my book. Butch
 
Potter Stewart was a U.S. Supreme Court justice - probably from N.J., but what Justice Stewart has to do with cleaning up crap (on boats) is unclear. I think his famous line was about not being able to define pornography but knowing it when he sees it...I may be wrong on that, Marty?
 
After Austin's analysis I was thinking of treating denture stains, but I'll defer to Bill's application.

Paul Priest
Sequim
 
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