You know there's light at the end of the tunnel when you can actually sit in more than one spot on a settee and don't have drills/drivers/dremels charging in every electrical outlet, a variety of socket sets open everywhere ... plus sandpaper, varnish, brushes and stuff cluttering the cockpit!
LOOK! We picked up our newly powder coated solar stanchion brackets today. And they look GREAT! Now if we can just remember how to reassemble them to reattach the solar panels - 2 55 watters on each and then attach the brackets to the boat stanchions. Luckily David had me take photos before we took them apart so hopefully re-assembly will go easily.
But before we can reattach the brackets to the stanchions, I needed to clean the stainless... no use putting brand new gleaming powder coating over rusty old yucky stainless. So I started my stainless "POX on Boat Pox" experiment. Over the next few months, I'll be trying a variety of products for stainless and report back on ease of use and long lasting. Watch for the complete report on CommuterCRUISER.com!
This cleat has half Iosso Metal Cleaner & Polish and half Mary Kate Metal Mate Cleaner & Polish. The starboard side solar stainless was done with Mary Kate and the port side with Iosso. Mary Kate might have a negligible edge on ease of getting rust off, but we'll see how they both hold up! Game on!!! BTW, I can also report that someone told me SheilaShine, a stainless spray product made for kitchen appliances in Australia doesn't even begin to get pox off boat stainless, so don't try it! I did put a bit of it over a couple different spots cleaned with Iosso and Mary Kate to see if maybe it affects longevity... In other news.....
This cleat has half Iosso Metal Cleaner & Polish and half Mary Kate Metal Mate Cleaner & Polish. The starboard side solar stainless was done with Mary Kate and the port side with Iosso. Mary Kate might have a negligible edge on ease of getting rust off, but we'll see how they both hold up! Game on!!! BTW, I can also report that someone told me SheilaShine, a stainless spray product made for kitchen appliances in Australia doesn't even begin to get pox off boat stainless, so don't try it! I did put a bit of it over a couple different spots cleaned with Iosso and Mary Kate to see if maybe it affects longevity... In other news.....
As a boat galley cookbook co-author, I'm happy to report that a bottle of rum makes a fine rolling pin for things like crushing vanilla wafers to make no bake holiday booze balls! :) Yet another tidbit of maybe someday useful trivia.
Until tomorrow, it's almost time for happy hour and then dinner! YUM! Pasta Primavera - a new twist, we'll see if it's scrumptious or awful - new recipes aboard Winterlude are rarely in the middle! :)
Until tomorrow, it's almost time for happy hour and then dinner! YUM! Pasta Primavera - a new twist, we'll see if it's scrumptious or awful - new recipes aboard Winterlude are rarely in the middle! :)
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