Cleaning Old Grease?
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Re: Cleaning Old Grease?
Mineral spirits here.
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Re: Cleaning Old Grease?
I use kerosene, since it's what I always have on hand.
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Re: Cleaning Old Grease?
Gasoline,gloves, scrunge pad, parts brush and the rotted picnic table.
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Wow! What do you use in place of mineral spirits?martinola wrote:My choice is Lacquer Thinner. Amazingly it is still available in California (unlike Mineral Spirits).
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Re: Cleaning Old Grease?
Kerosene, mainly because it is readily available in quantity for a relatively cheap price. However, carburetor cleaner, brake cleaner, engine cleaner, steam or any automotive grease dissolver works well...
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Re: Cleaning Old Grease?
Umm, I'm still working on that. This latest bit of madness just kicked in this year (right in the middle of an oil-based home improvement project). The offered new compliant replacement thinner is a useless joke. All I can say is that when they outlaw paint, only outlaws will have paint!wjw wrote:Wow! What do you use in place of mineral spirits?
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Re: Cleaning Old Grease?
I use kerosene or mineral spirits for the heavy stuff in the springs and barrels and clock cleaner for everything else. Clock cleaner is followed by a water rinse and a blow dry to keep rust from forming. Because I don't have an ultrasonic cleaner, I usually have to clean out gear teeth, bushing holes and other small areas by hand with toothpicks.
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Re: Cleaning Old Grease?
I actually tried some mineral spirits today and it worked great. I was out of clock cleaner and rinse which I prefer because of the brighteners. I used some mag wheel cleaner on the motor frame and it brightened up nicely.
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Re: Cleaning Old Grease?
Regular unleaded gasoline.
Wire brush for the really caked-on stuff.
Tooth brush for most other stuff.
Old pocketknife to scrape off rust.
Wire brush for the really caked-on stuff.
Tooth brush for most other stuff.
Old pocketknife to scrape off rust.
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Re: Cleaning Old Grease?
I use gasoline.
Did you actually do it, later? I can't seem to find the thread...HisMastersVoice wrote:I will start a separate thread on this in the next couple of days so as not to hijack this one.PeterF wrote:Does this mean that this can all disappear overnight if the Owner decides to quit paying some fee?