Carb & Parts Cleaner

[BIGNASTY]

Pulled the Zenith carb off the tractor for rebuild, This stuff works pretty well
berryman-chem-dip-carburetor-and-parts-cleaner

 

[jhenderson]

When I was much younger every professional garage had the same smell. The carb cleaner can with the basket in it. It’s an odor you never forget.

 

[BIGNASTY]

When I was much younger every professional garage had the same smell. The carb cleaner can with the basket in it. It’s an odor you never forget.

Carbon tetrachloride is what I remember but I'm sure that stuff is not allowed, it was fantastic stuff but you didn't want to get it on your skin

 

[jhenderson]

Carbon tetrachloride is what I remember but I'm sure that stuff is not allowed, it was fantastic stuff but you didn't want to get it on your skin

I’ve got a buddy that worked for a company that built fuel oil delivery trucks. Years ago, he came to the shop I share with a friend to do some fab work on his hot rod. He pulled out a jug of Triclorethelene. I made a comment about not wanting to be around that stuff. His response was “ This isn’t so bad. We’ve got stuff at work that’s a lot more cancer causing than this”. It didn’t make me feel any better.

 

[6V92TA]

you know you are dating yourself if you remember how to clean a carburetor.

up until the late 1980's we used to mop the shop floor with mineral spirits.
then somebody said it was a fire hazard and not environmentally sound..

boy that stuff did a good job cleaning the floor.

 

[fest3er]

I've found 'Barkeeper's Friend" to be a pretty good all-around cleaner when ordinary cleaners give up, thought it might require some elbow grease. It is primarily oxalic acid which is a good deal stronger than acetic acid (vinegar). It even cleaned my old plastic water glasses that'd become, mmm, darkened over the years (probably with dirt and greases from hands).

 

[mwilson]

you know you are dating yourself if you remember how to clean a carburetor.

up until the late 1980's we used to mop the shop floor with mineral spirits.
then somebody said it was a fire hazard and not environmentally sound..

boy that stuff did a good job cleaning the floor.

When I was helping out at the shop in the afternoons after I got home from school I washed parts in gasoline, and used it for stubborn grease spots on the cement floor. Also used to dump drain oil around the outside rear perimeter of the shop to keep the weeds down. Things have changed (some for the better) over the years.

 

[BIGNASTY]

When I was helping out at the shop in the afternoons after I got home from school I washed parts in gasoline, and used it for stubborn grease spots on the cement floor. Also used to dump drain oil around the outside rear perimeter of the shop to keep the weeds down. Things have changed (some for the better) over the years.

When I first started running fuel tankers when Dinosaurs still roamed the earth, we had diesel retain in a compartment (fuel that for some reason wouldn't fit at a station) we had a product end cap with lots of holes drilled in it for fence line weed abatement. line the truck up next to the fence line someone braver than I would open the internal then the product valve and both would go like hell, the driver along the fence line and the brave SOB AWAY FROM THE TRUCK