Trojan Boat Forum

Does anyone have any ideas of what to use on the factory plywood veneers inside to brighten it up? It's kind of dull. Tried oil that doesn't work. Was going to try either water based urithane or convensional.any other sugestions?

Did you use a real cleaner first to get all of the dirt and old oil out ? That's the way we do it every spring and seems to work best.

What is Real Cleaner and where is it available?

Sorry phone turned teak into real. Should have read teak cleaner.

well after looking more closely the wood I thought was veneer is really a formica. so the question now is what can I use to brighten it up?

I think last yr some covered this. I seem to remember paste wax and elbow puffing the hell out of it.

wife uses murphys wood floor restorer and it works great

Last year I tried everything you can think of, but only lasted a few days before lookin dull again. I tried a out of way spot and varnished it. It looked great, and still does now, so this summer I'll continue doing small areas at a time, till I get the formica covered with the same stuff. Can't remember name of it now, but will get it in the morning, and post it.

Larry

Formica ? I believe someone must have changed it as the boats came with veneer

Here is the products I was talking about. I'm only using the clear (varnish) to cover the paneling, be it Formica or veneer.

http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs/st ... sNum=11061

Hope this helps.

Larry

rip out the formica and replace with teak or mahogany plywood.

Use good plywood and teak veneer can be had for 50 bucks online it lots of fun.