Cleaning Inboard Props...

[gregmercer]

How do you guys go about cleaning or getting off a seasons worth of junk off your bronze/nibral props?

I tried using a random orbital sander with 220 grit paper but its going very sllooowww.

Is there a quicker way? Anyone use a wire wheel on a drill? Any other tricks?

[Frosty]

Orbital with 220???????

Try a 4 inch grinder with an 80 disc or even 40. You can get down to 18 on those 4 inch grinders but thats a bit too much.

You could rip the crap off with 18 and then finish off with 80.

For anti fouling the smoothest paper I will have would be 80.

I would use 220 on the RR bonnet before buffing up.

[Landlubber]

We normally just use a paint scraper to clean off all the crap, it is rare that you would have to use anything abrasive, but when we do use abrasives we use the 3M scotch brite pads on velcro backings, they are great. The purple ones will take the stains out of your character.

[TollyWally]

"The purple ones will take the stains out of your character"

I wish I'd said that!