Removing Crude Oil!

Derek Belden said:
I have an aluminum boat that has been on this oil spill for the last year and has never been cleaned. The crude oil is baked onto the sides of the boat. What is the best product for this type of cleaning?
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dynamite? I assume something with butyl in it
 
A new boat?
Really, depending on the boat, you just might be out of luck. You can try a couple of things. Something with SH or Butyl might work. You can also try an acid wash.
 
The oil is already deep into the aluminum so it will probably never look good again.

I wash a fleet of trash trucks that have axle seal leaks that soak into the aluminum wheels, I can make them look better but not really good again.

Very strong degreasers, many, many, many applications then brighten with an aluminum brightener, many, many times.

Crude oil is a lot worse than axle grease, it gets deeper into the pores so it will take more effort.

Good luck.
 
I had a customer a few years ago that managed to fill the inside of the boat with oil/gas. I downstreamed a bunch of degreaser with heat and pressure washed the inside before i detailed it. You couldnt tell there was ever any oil when i was done. But the outside is different. I would try a strong acid downstreamed with heat and maybe brush it.
 
Give Brad a call over there at Midwest Cleaning Solutions. He has customers that clean crude oil off land-rigs and guys are buying the stuff by the multiple drum loads.

I use some of Brad's chemicals and they are good.
 
VIPER 2-1 or straight. Dewll time about 1 minute. It will start to bleed it, dissolve it then wash off. Wont effect paint if used properly. We degrease heavy equipment and use on oil spills on euipment all the time. cold water rinse. come back with a straight concentrate of a biodegradable aluminum cleaner. it'll look great again.
 
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