Cleaning, polishing & maintaining diamond plate aluminum

[SalmoGairdneri]

Hi All,

I have a newer boat and want to maintain the diamond plate aluminum - mostly on hatch covers.

Any tips or suggested products?

-S

[dawgaholic]

Ran across this: aluminum polish

Wouldn't use it on the flooring though....

[welderbob]

You can look at the Shark hide products. I believe there a sponsor here, could be wrong. If you acid wash the aluminum it will leave it with a a white-ish color. It will be clean.from there you could try polishing from there. If you go through all the work to make it shiny than your going to want to coat it to maintain the luster. We have just tried Shark-Hide metal protection one of our hulls. It went on very easy and a little went a long way.

As with all these products "TRY THEM IN A SMALL AREA FIRST"
Welderbob

[welder]

Member... Tbirder is the owner of Sharkhide , one can email or PM him in the members list.