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Sal A posted 10-19-2004 08:37 AM ET (US)   Profile for Sal A   Send Email to Sal A  
I have just gotten my boat ready for haul-out. I added fuel stabilzer (nasty red stuff) to the gas tank, and ran the boat for a good 20 minutes as per what I found using the search engine here.

I did spill the stuff around the tank, down on the non-skid, and aft along the rubrail. The stains were scary. After hosing them, scrubbing them, and using various household cleaners (none of which worked), my slip neighbor brought me a rag with gasoline, and it worked like magic.

Is this the standard way to remove these kinds of stains?

BW23 posted 10-19-2004 09:19 AM ET (US)     Profile for BW23  Send Email to BW23     
Use some gas on a rag then re-wax the area.
starlight marine posted 10-19-2004 12:09 PM ET (US)     Profile for starlight marine  Send Email to starlight marine     
Pending on what caused the stain there is usually something for everything. The reason or one of the reasons gasoline worked well is because it's a petroleum product cleaning a petroleum product. You can try WD-40 also and yes after any of this you want to clean well with detergent and rewax the area, T

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