Cleaning aluminum window frame

[Roberta Glover]

Hi, I own a 1980 16 ft square Boler. Not many around and I am discovering they are not constructed or use the same materials as the smaller units. My windows are slider style. They are screwed into the fibreglass. I need to clean the outside and wondered what works best.They will need to be sealed and black gasket is shrinking. Any ideas? Also anyone out there with the same model. Would love to see pics or get ideas. Thanks

[Mark Bradley]

I use "Mothers Mag & Aluminum Polish". Works really well.

[Lisa in Michigan]

The silder windows on our boler 17 are anodized aluminum, and I just washed them. I was afraid of harming the finish and making things worse. Our boler 13 and trillium 4500 had bare aluminum and i liked mothers. There are lots of threads on polishing.

[Eric Frye]

The screws don't go into the fiberglass. You have an inner ring that screws into the window frame, sandwiching the fiberglass.

[pault]

When I was rebuilding my 66 Buco I scrubbed the frames with a brass brush and then polished with Mothers Mag and Aluminum polish. It took about 2-3 polishes and lots of elbow grease but the frames and trim went from dull oxidized aluminum colour to almost a mirror finish.

[Joe MacDonald]

purple metal polish worked well on my trillium
Joe