Has anyone ever used stuff? I was talking to a guy at a car cruise the other day and he had mentioned something about it. I've personally never heard of it but I did manage to find a place in town that sells it. It does say safe for carbs so I was thinking about trying it out on an old carb I've got, but I need to figure out what to pour it in to soak the carburetor... any help would be greatly appreciated
Pour it in something large enough for the carburetor to fit in. Plastic bucket? Web site says its safe for all metals, most plastic, and painted surfaces. http://blastercorp.com/Parts-Washer-Solvent
It would be safe for carbs true but I doubt it will clean them like carb cleaner does. At 135 for five gallons you have to stop and consider. If it would clean parts and with a decent filter last for a reasonable amount of time it might work. I've got one of those gallon cans of carb cleaner with the basket from the parts house to clean carbs. If the carb is too big to fit in the can I run down to Dollartree and get a foil baking pan or plastic tub that the carb will it in and pour the carb cleaner in it with the carb already in it. When done, I pour it back in the can and put the lid on for next time. Soak, rinse off with my gypo spray nozzle and blow off with the air hose. I've got a HF parts cleaner that I picked up cheap at a moving sale a while back but haven't put anything in it yet. I was planning on purple power and water but would rather have real solvent. Over the past 55 years I have found that along with it's cleaning ability there are two important things about solvent for a solvent tank and that is flash point and what it does to your hands. I worked in a shop where the solvent immediately caused me to get flush in the face when I put my hands in it. I'm from the old real mechanic days when we didn't know what gloves were in a shop. First time I ever saw a guy wear gloves it was because he didn't want his homies to know he worked with his hands. Great guy, great coworker but he didn't want marks on his hands like I had.
I used to use Naptha for years. Had the bottom 10 inches of a 55 gallon drum with several gallons of it on my bench in the first shop I worked in professionally. Spilled that bugger one day and in the clean up process I found that the shop floor where my work area was actually concrete instead of dirt but by the time I got done cleaning it up I had hauled about a two inch layer of greasy dirt out of there. They shop owner and his son in law worked on their dirt track cars in my work area after hours. I didn't know about the fash point of that stuff or years until someone told me that it was pretty much the same as charcoal lighter fluid.
Naptha is actually what's in a can of cigarette lighter fluid, like what's used to refill an old Zippo lighter. Doesn't take much of a spark to set it off.
I still have two 5 gallon carb cleaner cans that work fine after 30+ years. The last one looked new but still had stuff you couldn't get to in passages even with carb cleaning wires and high pressure air blow gun. I spoke with a fellow with a carb manufacturer who suggested Simple Green in an ultrasonic tank. Using that through a few heat cycles did it. I was using a 50/50 mix with water, too strong, he said they use 5% Simple Green and 95% water. I thought I had it spotlessly clean, but after the ultrasonic bath the solution was dirty. That was the ticket. Sent from my SM-S320VL using Tapatalk
Try Awesome Cleaner from the Dollar Tree stores. It costs $ 1.00 per bottle, and works great on carburetors.
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