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  • What commercial products do you use to polish and protect your props?

    Hi all,
    I've been lurking for a while and learned a lot, and I have a couple of items to show off and ask about once I get some decent pictures taken, but first I wanted to ask what commercial brands of polish and cleaners people are using. Both of my items have original varnish (as far as I can tell) with some crazing but basically intact.

    "Pure beeswax" polish as recommended seems hard to come by unless you make it up yourself, which means adding turpentine - or some kind of oil - to get it to flow, but this is a no-no, correct?

    A woodworking store near me stocks a polish called "Antiquax" which is beeswax/carnauba blend and looks good, but this and similar products have a consistency similar to shoe polish, so would take a fair amount of elbow grease to rub in. Wouldn't that possibly have a bad effect on the original finish?

    Thinner polishes are more oil-based (such as orange oil) but I read here to stay away from them. And what would be wrong with using Pledge or some other supermarket aerosol polish?

    So what are _you_ using to protect your wooden prop? I'm in the US but have UK connections, but I would hope that the best polishes would be available globally (assuming that people here can agree on them!). Thank you for reading this far!
    Last edited by tweesdad; 08-12-2011, 12:45 AM.

  • #2
    I use Johnson's paste wax in a can.

    Lamar

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    • #3
      I use lemon pledge to both clean and protect my wood propellers after flying.

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