Rusty sink and stove

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Aug 10, 2007
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Catalina 30 Panacea
My 1987 C30 has very recently developed rust on both the sink and the stove. The boat spent the first 20 years on Lake Michigan(low humidty winters) and is now on Lake Texoma ( very wet winter and spring this year) as of Nov. 06. I have used several products to remove the rust, but it keeps coming back and is worse each time. So I need to know of a better cleaner and if there is a sealer of some kind that prevent the reaccurance. Help!
 
Mar 1, 2004
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Catalina 387 Cedar Mills-Lake Texhoma
Stainless Steel

really isn't stainless. You can use oxylic acid to remove the rust ( Sometimes called Bartenders friend), but inorder to keep it from coming back, you must dry your sink with a towel when you close up the boat. This is always the last thing we do before we leave the boat.
 
Feb 26, 2004
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Catalina 34 224 Maple Bay, BC, Canada
It would help a lot if you told us what

you DID use that didn't work. Jim's idea is a good one. Also Never Dull works, and we also use soft scrub to shine it up when needed. We've never waxed the sinks, but that wouldn't hurt either, although the wax would get washed off pretty quickly.
 
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