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Posted by David Sherman on Friday, July 10, 2009 at 20:27:48 :
In Reply to: OT: Parts Cleaner Solution posted by Will (in IL) on Friday, July 10, 2009 at 17:53:41 :
Why worry about using gas, when you have a fire truck like that to take care of any accidents?
Seriously, has anyone here tried that orange juice stuff? They make great claims for it, being non-toxic, biodegradable, etc, but the question is how well it cleans.
Back when I worked at Fluke, one of the engineers brought his carburetor in one weekend and cleaned it in the freon tank they used to clean the hybrid circuits. That was a neat setup -- put it in the basket and spray it all over with hot freon. It would clean all the grease and flux residue off and wouldn't hurt the paint or plastic. It did a fine job on the carburetor. Anyway, the guy's carburetor cleaning episode ruined the whole tank of freon and they had to dump it all out, clean the whole machine, and put in fresh freon. The stuff was super expensive even back then. Word was he got his butt chewed pretty good by the boss of the hybrid department, but he kept his job. They don't use freon any more on account of the ozone hole.
Up at the Morning shop they have a great parts washer. It'll do big stuff that you can barely even lift, since the doors open on the side. You just open the door, manhandle the thing into it, lock it up and turn it on. It automatically sprays it every which way with solvent like a big dishwasher, and when you take it out, it's clean and ready to go. Next time I'm up there, I'll ask them what kind of solvent they use in it. I don't remember it smelling like either gasoline or diesel. It wasn't that orange juice stuff either. Maybe dry cleaning fluid?