It works well on rifle stocks that have been in cosmoline for decades; ***ume it will work well on metals, too.
I use SUPER CLEAN. It comes in a purple 1 gallon jug or a trigger-spray bottle. Just don't get it on your hands for long without washing it off as it will eat your skin. Use it full strenth to clean suspentions, blocks, transmissions, tires, or whatever. Spray it on, let it soak, take a brush to it, rinse it off and repeat if needed. Works really good. Simple Green smells better though.
It works great. I've found, ala HAMB, that cold oven cleaner really works better on "baked on" grease. Get it, baked on?
Castrol Super Clean is good I get a de-greaser off our Safety-Kleen Rep, he's our environmental disposal guy at work. He sold me 4 gallons of concentrate for $40. To get it down to simple green strength i mix it 10 parts water to one part cleaner it etches aluminum like super clean though.
yep, it works great - I do prefer the purple stuff for degreasing though. Just don't use simple green on interiors or vinyl - it'll dry it out and crack it. you can ruin a good old dash in a year by simple greening it.
For my money Gojo hand cleaner is the best engine degreaser on the market, just slather it on and let it soak in, then scrub/wipe it off...and it keeps your hands clean while you're scrubbing...try it...
Like all great things I found it by accident while cleaning my hands over a greasy valve cover, dripped some gojo on it, wiped it off and Eureka!
I don't want to hijack the thread, but non-pumis hand cleaner really takes off the dead chalky paint when you're looking for patina, too.
Have you tried Degreaser 505 from Home Depot. It kicks simple's ***. We have use every cleaner there is and foud 505 cleans the best. My .02$
Never tried it - probably cos Gunk Engine Degreaser with the orange cap works so darn well.... My NAPA store says its the best seller of all degreasers including simple green. Doesn't harm anything but the grease.....and rinses and neutralizes with tap water. I tried oven cleaner from the dollar store, but it's only about 20% as effective as Gunk and costs more in the end.
simple green works well on white walls light oil film and mold on boats and vinal that sat for decades. When i build a engine i wash the heavys off in safty clean,do my machine work and before final ***embly i use a product called greeze off.wash in hot water and blow dry,The parts are ready for ***embly.I tried this with superclean,simplegreen and they all leave a film of oil .On polished aluminum if you work quickly your ok,let it sit too long and you will be repolishing it later.Havent tried oven cleaner yet,how is it on painted parts?
I stumbled a great degreaser last week. I needed to clean some parts but found I was out of Simple Green which is what I normally use. There was a gallon of 'coil cleaner', used to clean air conditioning coils by home/commercial A/C guys sitting under the bench, left from my spring cleanup. It dulutes 4 to 1 with water and worked a bunch better than any water based cleaner I've ever used!! Any it is designed for copper/br***/aluminum parts. Don't remember what it cost, but check your local A/C supply house.
Yes, in fact, several years back circa 2ooo, th US Army issued a memo about using Simple Green on Helicopters. It seeems they saw serious, early corrosion probs with parts the were regularly cleaned with Simple Green. They decided not to use it.
Simple green has become my main cleaning agent. Some one told me to try it on the body of my T so I gave it a try. Takes off all the crude but does dry without leaving streaks. Haven't used it on anything else...car isn't old enough to ave baked on grease. My vote for Simple green is " YES "
I used it once to clean carburator parts, put it in a metal pail & when i came back to work the next day it ate thru the pail!!!lol did Ok on the carb parts. I also got a few gallons of simple green & water, filled up a palstic trash can with it & soaked my engine block in it for about 4 days.Lifted it out everyday & cleaned it with a stiff parts bush.After i rinsed it off & let is dry it was so clean it started to get a surface rust on it.I love the stuff & its good for mother earth also(well it doesn't hurt it). JimV
Um, guess I should have mentioned: The coil cleaner I buy is specifically labeled 'NON ACID'. There are some acid-based cleaners out there but I won't use them.
Yeah, Simple Green is pretty good. On really greasy stuff, I start out with deodorized kerosene and scrub it with a toothbrush. Then spray it with simple green and do some more scrubbing, and rinse it with a blast from a hose and it comes out super clean. You can hose the simple green onto the lawn and it won't hurt it. If you have mountains of caked on grease, it saves a lot of time to get an old ****er knife and s****e away the huge thick wads of **** first. And Simple Green works great on whitewalls.
Yupp,I use simple Green for everything.I also have been using a product called Oil Eater that can be purchased at Costco.That stuff is also really good to bust through the grease.All of them can be purchased from 1 Gal container up to 55 Gal containers.I havent used anything else since I started to use either of these products and its been about 7 years now.
As main other I have used oven cleaner super clean and simple green YOu name it ... these both work great really really well oven cleaner dollar store brand that **** is nasty to breath in super clean Damm dont get the **** on your skin someday they will bann this product but it works really well just watch out for aluminum rubber and some plastics...\ The latest i found that works great is the store brand heavy Duty engine degreaser sold 1.77 a can at advanced auto parts .. let it sit 15 minutes ... years ago i tried degreaser it was like water on grease useless ... TRY this stuff it does not stain or damadge plastic or aluminum ... plus it removes undercoating really very well TRY it you will love it ...
Just a word of caution on using A/C "coilcleaner" ( or any strong degreaser..SimpleGreen,PurpleStuff,etc) ...this past summer ,I bought a gallon of coil cleaner to clean the outside A/C unit on my house...diluted the cleaner per instructions,put it in a spray bottle and proceeded to clean the condensor ..figured being diluted ,I didn't need gloves.......DUH...later, after my hands dried ,the edges of all my fingernails curled up like potato chips...pulled away from the cuticles & nailbeds...took a week or two to get better....So,WEAR PROTECTIVE GLOVES WHEN USING STRONG DETERGENTS!!! Damn...I sound like my Mom Stan
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