Press Article - Sailing Today

This is a gel-type consistency stainless steel renovator, which in common with some others is painted on with an old brush, left for a minimum of half an hour and then rinsed off with fresh water. When we warned that we would be testing it in UK winter conditions, the suppliers informed us that it is a temperature dependent product, that works best above 10oC. With that in mind, we were expecting it to fail dismally in our tests at 6oC. However, we were really impressed. We tried it on a never cleaned bow-roller fitting and various stainless fittings with weeping oxidation marks. We found that an old toothbrush was better than a paintbrush at working into these complex shapes. Being the impatient folks that we are at Sailing Today, we could only give it 20 minutes or so, but everything we tried it on still came up gleaming. I’m sure that the fittings would have polished up just as nicely, but it’s a lot easier to apply this stuff, walk away and do something else for half an hour, then simply return and hose off. JF