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Degreaser cleaner
John Stevenson:
Family Bargains / Home bargains or similar chain sell a spray on bottle of Elbow Grease for £1.00
Idea on really ditched paintwork, spray on, leave 5 minutes and wipe off. You have to see the result to believe it.
RobWilson:
WÜrth brake cleaner and AutoSmart TFR are my chemicals of choice .
Rob
howsitwork?:
depends what I am cleaning and why. For cleaning to "araldite together" or Loctite , I use either cellulose thinners or Hammerite thinners. Brake cleaner should work well, never tried it on anything but the car but thanks for the idea.
White spirit will shift thick muck but I always use thinners afterwards to finalize the cleaning. WD40 is fine but the copies GT85 are cheaper and work.
IPA (isopropyl alcohol is also good for some things ( cleaning cassette tape heads /video heads in times gone by. If you want this buy from amazon as a damn sight cheaper than I can get it ( pharmacist by trade) and it's delivered.
Never tried petrol but now it's lead free might give it a go. Have used paraffin but takes a while to evaporate off and I usually don't have the patience, not sure on price per litre currently.
Telling children "don't touch that it's too dirty" sometimes gets the thick off quickly :lol:
hermetic:
John, I like the sound of that stuff, will have to look out for it getting up this end of Yorkshire! Rob, yes, I like the brake cleaner as well Just run out and must buy some more, as this week I am mainly rebuilding a huge Frank hot pressure washer, and I have used it cleaning out the pressure jet unit. The price of prepack paraffin is rigged of course, there was a big scandal about it a couple of years ago, but nothing seems to have happened. Seems like all the places that used to sell it loose (take your own can) like we did in our village shop, have been nobbles by COSHH regulations, and it is now only available prepacked at HUGE expense. Andrew, I agree with you about the stink of diesel, all my mates who were in Agric Eng wondered why they could never get girlfriends! I will soon be steam cleaning E£VERYTHING! (Or at least hot washing it)
Phil
appletree:
I use various things for the first clean, although smelly cerebral heating kerosene is very good. For the final clean to degreaser always use automotive panel wipe, no residue, about the same price as cellulose thinners
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