[Farmall] cleaning solvents

[Bob Currie]

After reading all your suggestions I started checking around a little more. 
I find that around here you can't even get carb cleaner in gallon 
containers any more Nothing that is large enough to hold a dip screen or 
tray.  I'm wondering about lacquer thinner or MEK. Doesn't it evaporate 
quickly, unless in a sealed tank? And lastly, if you spray on oven 
cleaner...lets say to a greasy casted part 1' by 1', how are you cleaning 
it off? Where does all the gunk go?

bobcurrie
greenwood, CA


>I tried oven cleaner on the front wheel of the F12, John.  It was amazing 
>to watch -- the stuff lifted most of the paint with the first 
>application!  I gather oven cleaner is largely lye or sodium hydroxide so 
>it is best handled with chemically resistant gloves and goggles/glasses.
>
>Bob Holtzer
>
>At 02:07 PM 8/23/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>>I've found that oven cleaner works pretty good, gotta let it soak a while
>>and sometimes on really badly caked stuff it takes a second shot.  John
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Bob Currie" <tractors at foothill.net>
>>To: <farmall at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 8:49 AM
>>Subject: [Farmall] cleaning solvents
>>
>>
>> > Seems like as far back as I can remember, we've always had a 5 or 10
>>gallon
>> > tank of some kind to clean the greasy parts when we took things apart for
>> > repair. Soaking them overnight and then using a hand brush to remove the
>> > crud usually did the job. Within the last 5 years, I've noticed the
>>solvent
>> > that I buy has less and less potency  and won't clean much of the
>> > grease.  The 55 gallon drum where I buy my solvent now says "mineral
>> > spirits" on it.  The guy at the parts house just shrugs and says "that's
>> > all we can get now days".  I'm wondering if it like this all over the
>> > country, or just out here in California where the EPA runs everything?
>>And
>> > what solution seems to work the best?
>> >
>> > bobcurrie
>> > greenwood, CA
>> >
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