[AT] Parts washer fluid

[Clint D]

Dudley

When you say thinner, is this lacquer thinner? or what?

Clint





> Like Bill I also use thinner.  I started using it maybe four or five years
> ago as it was/is so much cheaper than buying solvent five gallons at a time
> from the local Standard/Chevron truck farm.  IMHO thinner works just as well
> as the solvent I was buying for cutting grease.  However, as to your'
> criteria of odor, skin irritability and particularly toxicity I am not a
> chemist so I really don't know whether or not thinner will meet your'
> criteria.
>
> Dudley
> Snohomish, Washington
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com]On Behalf Of Bill Brueck
> Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 12:09 PM
> To: 'Antique tractor email discussion group'
> Subject: RE: [AT] Parts washer fluid
>
> I use mineral spirits, buy it 5 - 10 gallons at a time from an oil
> distributor.  Not as volatile as gasoline, so it doesn't evaporate away very
> quickly.  My oil jobber told me it's the same thing as charcoal lighter, so
> I've not bought any fire starter fluid since he told me that.  I had asked
> him about Stoddard Solvent, he said this was pretty much the same stuff and
> a bit cheaper this way.
>
> B²
> Chatfield, MN USA
>
> Confusion is a higher state of knowledge than ignorance.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Kyle Sands
> Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 12:59 PM
> To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com;
> antique-johndeere at lists.antique-tractor.com
> Subject: [AT] Parts washer fluid
>
> Hello - is there a good solvent out there that cuts grease well, is
> non-toxic, and doesn't have much of an odor?  I'd like to get in there with
> my hands and not have to worry about choking on fumes or ruining my hands;
> but I also want some stuff that really cleans well.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Kyle Sands <>< Alexandria, MN
>
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