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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 400.1 | Mineral Spirits in the Sky | DPDMAI::SMITH | The Solitary Cyclist - PBP Qualified | Fri Jul 24 1987 09:40 | 7 |
| Hi,
Try Mineral Spirits. It is an organic solvent; it has not "minerals"
in it. It is flammable, but much less so than gasoline or acetone.
Get it at a reasonably good hardware store.
GS
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| 400.2 | Solvent ideas | FTMUDG::ERBAUGH | | Mon Aug 24 1987 16:12 | 14 |
| < KEROSENE'S MESSY BUT.....>
There is a product available at auto parts stores (I can't think
of the name off hand) that you mix with kerosene. Believe it or
not it takes some of the nasty smell out of the kerosene and also
makes the oily residue the kerosene leaves behind washable with
soapy water. One problem is that this product is usually in a large
enough quanity to make a zillion gallons of solvent.
If you cant find this stuff, GUNK also makes a degreaser that
is sold in pint quanities (works good)
Phil Erbaugh
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| 400.3 | | NEXUS::GORTMAKER | the Gort | Mon Aug 24 1987 22:22 | 3 |
| re.2
TSP(spic/span) will do what you describe.
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| 400.4 | | MENTOR::REG | | Tue Aug 25 1987 14:40 | 4 |
| Super concentrated GUNK, when mixed with kerosene in the recommended
proportions (~1:9) will do this, i.e. form water soluble emulsions
with oils and greases. Tri_sodium_phosphate is a poor solvent by
comparison, only good for cleaning up grease soiled things.
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| 400.5 | Again on the Washboard | CCYLON::SCHULDT | Larry Schuldt - WA9TAH | Sun Feb 07 1988 16:03 | 9 |
| Reg,
Sorry to re-open and old note, but have you used the kerosene-Gunk
stuff in the Washboard? I got one, and agree that the stuff that
comes with it is none too great. The reason I ask is that the
manual says don't use flammable solvents. Could be just a safety
warning, but you never know what some of these plastics are attacked
by. Your last note didn't say whether you had actually put it into
the plastic Washboard.....
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| 400.6 | SC Gunk and kerosene, probably OK on most plastics | MENTOR::REG | Not B-M-B '88 disqualified; ...YET ! | Mon Feb 08 1988 08:17 | 14 |
| re .5 No, I don't have a washboard. I don't know what the
washboard is made of, but kerosene and super concentrated gunk is
pretty mild stuff for such a powerful solvent, i.e. its one of the
few things that eats up grease but not my tender skin. I would imagine
it would be OK in/on/around the sort of plastic that a parts cleaner
would be made from. Carb cleaner is BAD stuff, I skinned a knuckle
last saturday, rebuilt a carb on sunday, despite the bandaid the
carb cleaner got to the cut (probably ate through the bandaid) and
I still have open flesh showing eight days later. I normally heal
very quickly, any dirt just gets spat out in the scab, but this
is still open, so avoid carb cleaner if you have any open cuts.
Reg
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