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beachboy posted 03-14-2004 08:03 PM ET (US)
This is a much brought up subject yet I never have heard about this product? I am just looking for a good cleaner for a old blue-belly and I know there comet and soft scrub and bare kepper friend so which would yall prefer? ANd what about Bon-AMi??
diamondjj posted 03-14-2004 08:19 PM ET (US)
Use it all the time. It is used to clean fiberglass tubs and shower units, enamel cast iron tubs, sinks,pots and pans without scratching . I have used it on the hull for minor cleanups but have found that there are better products out there for cleaning the gel-coat when it is really bad with less work. I would never use comet, ajax, or soft scrub anywhere on the hull. Too abrasive.
beachboy posted 03-14-2004 08:24 PM ET (US)
No really bad scraps or anything just wnating to really clean it gooooood!
Sammy posted 03-14-2004 11:29 PM ET (US)
beach -
Whadaya mean you never heard of it? It's been around since the 1920's - or something like that. Didn't your mother ever make you clean the bathroom when you were a kid?:-)
Seriously, though, it's a very good and completely NON-abrasive cleaning/scrubbing agent that is recommended for use on gelcoat/fiberglass surfaces. For light duty and routine clean up it does a great job at less than half the cost of Barkeepers Friend. Bon Ami has a mild bleaching agent in it but none of the mild acids that some other cleaning agents reportedly have.
diamondjj is right, for nasty clean up jobs there's better options. But for all around and regular clean up, Bon Ami is great.
jimh posted 03-14-2004 11:32 PM ET (US)
I don't think the opportunity for beachboy to be sent by his mother to clean the bathroom has completely passed him by.
Chuck Tribolet posted 03-15-2004 12:16 AM ET (US)
Sammy, I think Beachboy was saying he'd never heard of Bon-Ami
being recommended for cleaning gel coat, not that he'd never
ever heard of it.

Chuck
Sammy posted 03-15-2004 12:31 AM ET (US)
Scuse-em moi, Chuck.
Seeing the "yet I never have heard of this product" threw me off.
Just kiddin' arouind a little on the first part of the reply but attempted to follow up with something substantive.
I'll try to be more completely serious in the future:-).
Sammy posted 03-15-2004 12:50 AM ET (US)
By the way, beach and Chuck, I was not trying to be mean-spiritied at all. I understood what you were saying Chuck, but I think beach got it. If it came across the wrong way, my apologies.
As a matter of fact, if beach and I had been sitting around a bonfire on a sandbar and the same subject came up I would have said the same thing. Maybe something gets lost in the written word.
beachboy posted 03-15-2004 05:15 PM ET (US)
Fisrt of no my mother never sent me to wash the tub but yes I still have the oportunity since im not out of high school yet. Secondly, so does this mean that bon-ami is the first choice of all yall out there? And no I really never heard of it I dont chop that much(sorry).
Gene in NC posted 03-16-2004 12:48 PM ET (US)
Re Bon Ami not being abrasive, BMW recommends it for cleaning windshields which are notoriously soft glass compared to American auto glass.

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Author	Topic: Bon-ami?????
beachboy	posted 03-14-2004 08:03 PM ET (US) This is a much brought up subject yet I never have heard about this product? I am just looking for a good cleaner for a old blue-belly and I know there comet and soft scrub and bare kepper friend so which would yall prefer? ANd what about Bon-AMi??
diamondjj	posted 03-14-2004 08:19 PM ET (US) Use it all the time. It is used to clean fiberglass tubs and shower units, enamel cast iron tubs, sinks,pots and pans without scratching . I have used it on the hull for minor cleanups but have found that there are better products out there for cleaning the gel-coat when it is really bad with less work. I would never use comet, ajax, or soft scrub anywhere on the hull. Too abrasive.
beachboy	posted 03-14-2004 08:24 PM ET (US) No really bad scraps or anything just wnating to really clean it gooooood!
Sammy	posted 03-14-2004 11:29 PM ET (US) beach - Whadaya mean you never heard of it? It's been around since the 1920's - or something like that. Didn't your mother ever make you clean the bathroom when you were a kid?:-) Seriously, though, it's a very good and completely NON-abrasive cleaning/scrubbing agent that is recommended for use on gelcoat/fiberglass surfaces. For light duty and routine clean up it does a great job at less than half the cost of Barkeepers Friend. Bon Ami has a mild bleaching agent in it but none of the mild acids that some other cleaning agents reportedly have. diamondjj is right, for nasty clean up jobs there's better options. But for all around and regular clean up, Bon Ami is great.
jimh	posted 03-14-2004 11:32 PM ET (US) I don't think the opportunity for beachboy to be sent by his mother to clean the bathroom has completely passed him by.
Chuck Tribolet	posted 03-15-2004 12:16 AM ET (US) Sammy, I think Beachboy was saying he'd never heard of Bon-Ami being recommended for cleaning gel coat, not that he'd never ever heard of it. Chuck
Sammy	posted 03-15-2004 12:31 AM ET (US) Scuse-em moi, Chuck. Seeing the "yet I never have heard of this product" threw me off. Just kiddin' arouind a little on the first part of the reply but attempted to follow up with something substantive. I'll try to be more completely serious in the future:-).
Sammy	posted 03-15-2004 12:50 AM ET (US) By the way, beach and Chuck, I was not trying to be mean-spiritied at all. I understood what you were saying Chuck, but I think beach got it. If it came across the wrong way, my apologies. As a matter of fact, if beach and I had been sitting around a bonfire on a sandbar and the same subject came up I would have said the same thing. Maybe something gets lost in the written word.
beachboy	posted 03-15-2004 05:15 PM ET (US) Fisrt of no my mother never sent me to wash the tub but yes I still have the oportunity since im not out of high school yet. Secondly, so does this mean that bon-ami is the first choice of all yall out there? And no I really never heard of it I dont chop that much(sorry).
Gene in NC	posted 03-16-2004 12:48 PM ET (US) Re Bon Ami not being abrasive, BMW recommends it for cleaning windshields which are notoriously soft glass compared to American auto glass.