Grams
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‘53 Cessna 170-B
Buy WD40 in gallon cans. 2 or 3 cups in a 5-gal bucket…forcefully add water…makes a “milky” solution.
Rinse the airplane or ? with garden-hose… use dedicated cotton mop with the solution to wash it off ….(instead of soap/water which will stain/anodize the bare aluminum).
Rinse with garden hose.
Dry with old towels.
Looks fresh-waxed. Sheds water like fresh-waxed. Leaves bare aluminum clean and corrosion-free. Lubricates weather-seals/door/window/flight-control hinges.
Does not harm paint or craze plastic windows (like some cleaners do.)
PS: This idea came to me from a 1950’s-era “Hints from Heloise” in the Sunday Paper which recommended kerosene / warm-water to wash the family car.
Dad tried it and it worked beautifully.
When I bought my Oshkosh-award airplane 25 years ago… I was too lazy to keep it polished….and I prefer the smell of WD40 to kerosene.
It has been the standard ever since and the airplane has kept it’s award-winning appearance. (and I’ve saved my back and the wife has not had to deal with aluminum-polish-goo and residue in the clothes-washer)
(before/after pics of when I slightly-modified the instrument panel with 2nd artificial horizon and instrument lighting for night. pic of back seat, the over-water pic taken by a friend over Lake Okanagan, B.C. on our way te Nanaimo.)
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