Cleaning Aluminium Pontoons

[ImgMkr3]

Can anyone recommend a product to clean up the 'toons on my boat. The boat spent last year in the Potomac river in a boat slip and if you know the Potomac around DC it can be pretty nasty.

I was able to get the surface crud off with Purple and a power washer but I'd like to polish them up a little before my inaugral launch in May.

 

[toon owner]

Re: Cleaning Aluminium Pontoons

I just purchased a pontoon that has spent every summer in the water since new in 98 and I sprayed it the first three times with Dollar General brand oven cleaner and let it soak approx 5 min then rinsed with a pressure washer(had to hit the tuff spots lightly with a scotch brite) then I did a final cleaning with Toon Brite as directed on the bottle. I then polished it with the Toon Brite polish and my buffer and it looks like new.

 

[JonathanEngr]

Re: Cleaning Aluminium Pontoons

I just finished cleaning my 'toons and you can see the results here:

http://forums.iboats.com/showthread.php?t=325870

I pressure washed all of the gunk off of the 'toons and then used Sharkhide cleaner to remove the stains. Afterward, I used the green 3M scouring pads to buff out the vertical "run lines", and finished up with a trick the guys at Sharkhide told me about. I bought a sponge mop, put the 3M pad on it (it stays in place by the friction between the mop and pad), wet the 'toons and ran the 3M pad down the length of the 'toons in a straight line to reduce any swirl scratches. I'm tickled with how it turned out! I also plan to polish my 'toons, and have already bought the polishing compound and pads. However, that's a 20-30 hour job (from what I've been told). The cleaning I just did took me roughly 3 hours between the pressure washing, stain removal and buffing.