{"id":14242,"date":"2018-02-28T13:46:06","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T18:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raritaneng.com\/?p=14242"},"modified":"2018-02-28T13:46:06","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T18:46:06","slug":"marine-toilet-systems-staff-blog-make-your-own-boat-cleaners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raritaneng.com\/blog\/marine-toilet-systems-staff-blog-make-your-own-boat-cleaners\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine Toilet Systems Staff Blog: Make Your Own Boat Cleaners"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cheap and Easy Boat Cleaners You Can Make At Home<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Raritan Engineering<\/a>\u00a0would like to share with you this week some great information about how to make your own boat cleaners.<\/p>\n

Your marine toilet systems experts talk about how if you\u2019ve got a locker full of nearly empty black-streak cleaners, waterline-stain cleaners, mildew preventers, bilge cleaners, and boat soaps, now is your chance to retire them all and reduce your cleaning arsenal to just four or five products that can fit in a small bucket.<\/p>\n

This is not our first foray into the topic homemade maintenance supplies.\u00a0 A few years back we dug into the topic of homemade bronze polishes and found a couple of concoctions that proved their mettle\u2014so to speak.<\/p>\n

Home brew No. 1: Salt and vinegar paste<\/strong><\/p>\n

Recipe: Dissolve 3 teaspoons of salt into 1 cup of white\u00a0vinegar. Add enough flour to make a paste, then scoop\u00a0the paste onto a clean sponge and polish. Rinse with hot\u00a0water and buff dry with a soft cloth.\u00a0Result: This polish worked surprisingly well. all and earned a\u00a0rating of \u201cGood\u201d on our test scale.<\/p>\n

Home brew No. 2: lemon paste<\/strong><\/p>\n

Recipe:<\/strong>\u00a0Polish with a soft cloth soaked in a solution of lemon\u00a0juice and baking soda, or sprinkle baking soda on a slice of\u00a0lemon and scrub. (We made a paste as in Brew No. 1.)\u00a0Result: After the mini-volcanic reaction of mixing lemon\u00a0juice and baking soda settled down, the resulting paste\u00a0powered off the stains exceptionally well with minimal\u00a0scrubbing.<\/p>\n

Home brew No. 3, Morris’ Mix:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Recipe:<\/strong>\u00a0Subscriber Scott A. Morris makes his polish by\u00a0blending polishing compound (not rubbing compound)\u00a0with a small amount of silicone car wax\u2014according to\u00a0Morris, a little experimentation will yield your best mix.\u00a0Result: \u201cFair to Good\u201d overall, however, it took a bit of rubbing\u00a0to clean our nasty bronze.<\/p>\n

Benefits of Making Your Own Boat Cleaners<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Your\u00a0marine toilet systems<\/a> professionals discuss how overall, the results in the home brew category were pretty\u00a0impressive, particularly considering that the first two have\u00a0all natural ingredients and that all three are economical to\u00a0make. While the Brews Nos. 1 and 2 cleaned the bronze, they\u00a0lacked the \u201cluster\u201d of products such as the Miracle cloth.<\/p>\n

Of all the homebrew recipes we\u2019ve tested, the one we\u2019re most pleased with is our\u00a0One-Penny mildew cleaner\/preventer, which tester\u00a0Drew Frye\u00a0has tested extensively on his boat.\u00a0We tried two formulas creatively named Formula A and Formula B, which cost just pennies to make.<\/p>\n

Formula A<\/h4>\n

1 quart hot water<\/p>\n

1 tablespoon baking soda (sodium bicarbonate)<\/p>\n

2 tablespoons washing soda (sodium carbonate)<\/p>\n

2 tablespoons trisodium phosphate (TSP)<\/p>\n

Much like Concrobium (which it is modeled after), our homemade Formula A removed the mildew from test carpet on board and kept it away, even though the area got wet again. It was also very effective in the moist-environment lab test.<\/p>\n

Formula B<\/h4>\n

1 quart hot water<\/p>\n

2 tablespoons baking soda<\/p>\n

2 tablespoons Borax<\/p>\n

1 tablespoon TSP<\/p>\n

Formula B was the second-place performer overall in our test of mildew sprays. It was certainly the best value. It cleaned well, prevented mildew from returning to the carpet, and greatly slowed mildew infection in the moist-environment test in the lab.<\/p>\n

So don’t forget these ways to make your own boat cleaners. 1) Salt and vinegar paste;\u00a0 2) lemon paste;\u00a0 and 3)\u00a0blending polishing compound (not rubbing compound)\u00a0with a small amount of silicone car wax.<\/p>\n

How to Fish Midge Patterns\u00a0With Style<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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You\u2019ve probably been there. Two hours from home, halfway through the thermos of coffee, knee-deep in cold water on a cold day, and not a single, solitary fish to show for it. They\u2019re taunting you.<\/p>\n

The most likely answer? Midges. Nine times out of ten, when you see so many rings that it looks like the result of an invisible hail-storm, the trout are hitting midges.<\/p>\n

But one thing is very clear: trout love to eat midges. Your average brown trout in a midge hatch is like a fat kid with a bowl full of M&Ms. Although each of the bugs may not make much of a meal, a river is like a conveyor belt that delivers thousands of the tiny morsels to a fish. Midge hatches are especially prolific in tailwaters, those rivers kept at constant refrigeration by bottom-release dams.<\/p>\n

Midges are usually small, but they aren\u2019t necessarily microscopic. A size 18 barbless hook will provide satisfactory results in most situations. An angler carrying a small midge box with a series of tried-and-true patterns from size 18 down to size 22, with a very few smaller, will be equipped to handle 90 percent of the midge fishing situations out there. Generally speaking, big midges will allow you to use more complex patterns, such as the Copper John. For really tiny midges, stick to the simple stuff.<\/p>\n

Try cutting the leader where you want the shot to stop sliding, and then knot it back together with a simple double surgeon\u2019s knot. Crimp the shot above the knot and let it slide on down; the knot will keep the shot from hugging your fly.<\/p>\n

A better bet, though, would be one of the new breed of vertical emergers based on the Quigley\u2019s Cripple, such as the JLC Midge. Douse these flies with floatant and lube up your tippet for several feet. You won\u2019t have the advantage of the split shot to keep your line taught and your chances of popping your tippet go up considerably, so be gentle.<\/p>\n

Midge fishing in the winter time can be an angler\u2019s only chance to avoid going stir-crazy. When your favorite freestone is snowed in, and your dog won\u2019t even budge off the hearth, bundle up tight, load that thermos, and find a sunny piece of slow water down behind a dam in the valley.<\/p>\n

Check us out here at http:\/\/raritaneng.com\/<\/a> and see how we provide you the best products in the marine sanitation industry today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

via\u00a0Steer Clear of the Marine Cleaner Con<\/a><\/p>\n

via Pro Tips: How to Fish Midge Patterns in Winter – Orvis News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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