My spouse is out of town this weekend so after years of putting it off, I worked up the gumption to start trying to Walbernize the 560.
Years ago, when we had to store our camper in a partially uncovered outdoors area in Missouri, it started to develop some small pitting/spotting. I think it got started when sap/pollen drifted through the storage area in the spring and covered everything. I was mostly hoping that a Walbernize effort would reduce or eliminate those spots. We also have some spotting/pitting on the roof and the galley hatch from our storage site in Alaska for the winter. There, we stored the camper in a shipping container. Condensation inside the container dripped onto the hatch/roof and left some whitish spots over time.
This is a ‘before’ shot of the driver’s/port side of the camper:
I bought a polisher and put in a quick call to Cary this week to check if the original bottle of Walbernize that came with the camper 7 years ago was still good. He (as always) provided a quick answer and a bevy of other tips and encouragement.
I worked through a few different versions of paper towels / microfiber cloths / wooly pads along the way. In particular, I had a helluva time getting the paper towels to stay put on the orbital polisher. There wasn’t enough friction/texture between the smooth camper, the paper towel, and the slick surface of the polisher. Eventually I was putting on a microfiber pad just to help the polisher grip the paper towel.
On the first small area that I gave it a go on, I made two treatments and was fairly happy with the result.
The next areas were trickier, working around the door and other edges/boundaries. I also didn’t get quite the same level of polish. I tried a couple shortcuts, like not fully buffing before applying the second layer of treatment, and using the microfiber pad/cloths more when buffing. Mixed results.
After doing most of one entire side over the course of a few hours, I was nearly out of my 16oz of walbernize. I wanted to keep going just to get to the “finished the entire side on Saturday” completion point, but my patience was wearing thin and my back was getting sore from pressing on the polisher. Not sure how much pressure I’m supposed to be putting on there … You can see the lower door and lower forward section that didn’t get treated today. I suppose that means I’m getting results, if you can see where I didn’t do anything.
I guess I need to buy a big jug of this stuff before I do any more polishing. And I’m not really confident in just how clean I need to get these pads and microfiber cloths before trying any more.
Do people do the roof? My roof looks worse than the rest of the camper … but it’s also the roof.
All in all I’m happy. I’m a little annoyed that the pitting/spotting isn’t coming all the way out. I can tell I have reduced it somewhat, as the texture of the spots are smoother and they do seem to have faced. But they are for sure still there.
Guys, you're making me doubt my life choices again 
