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What do you guys use in your parts cleaner?
Just bought a 20 gallon set up today.
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mineral spirits/solvent.....use one with a high flash point specially made for it. There are some bio-degradable stuff out there...but they all suck.
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a mix of kerosene and marvel mystery oil
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Were are you guys buying the mineral sprirts at? I can get 5 gallon kerosene can at Home Depot?
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I use mirachem. It's the same thing the Nascar teams use. Seems to work real good. www.mirachem.com
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If you have an oil jobber in your area(a heating oil supplier) you can go there & get a pail of mineral spirits. That's what I did.
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solvent
ytou can get mineral spirits at home depot...in the paint dept. look at paint thinner that is mineral spirits if you look around you can usually get it for under $2.00 /gal. I've been using it for a long time.started with kerosene but the mineral spirits worked as good if not better,and leaves less of an oily film on parts you may want to paint.
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Mineral spirits work well but, don't forget gloves and eye protection. Things will get under your skin. Same can be said for any solvent/cleaner.
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Safety solvent. It used to be sold by the brand name of Stoddard, iirc. I can buy it at a local co-op or petroleum products dealer. Last time I bought any it was just under $4 a gallon, takes 12 gallons to fill a 20 gallon parts washer.
It lasts quite a while. My washer in my garage needs changed, it's 4 or 5 years old. I have added about 3 gallons to top it off. We also have one at our train museum, it gets used most every Saturday. Have to change that one about once year.
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Does anyone still use varsol? I used to use that at the machine shop, and it was awesome. I heard that folks used it for thinning paint too. Just dries out your skin if you get in contact with it.
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I am using the stuff that TSC sells.....works great.
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We use mineral spirits and never change it. For rinsing we use new mineral spirits and that is how make up is added to the tank. This has worked well for us for the last 15 years.
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hey frank...go to an "AutoParts Connection" store, they sell a solvent in 5gal containers made for cleaning/solvent tanks. stuff works great. These are in the austin area.
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The first time I filled it I used some of that biodegradable stuff, it sucked like jamis said. I use mineral spirits now.
Bob
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Went to Sherman Williams. They sale 5 gallon containers of mineral spirits for 20 bucks.
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I use K1 kerosene, works great. When it gets dirty I can mix it in with the waste oil.
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types of washers
I do not want to detract from thread but thought lots of good answers have come in and I would like to expand question to benefit all.
What brand and size of washers work well? I remember in shop class (years ago)we had a nice one with barrel drum under it for fluid and pumped up and into basin and then back down to barrel. I think it use product from company called "Safety Klean". Harbor freight I believe just sells the one with top pan and some type of rack I guess. I liked the one where you could set parts in bottom, pump cleaner on them and use brush on hose to scrub and then fluid fell through drain in tub into barrel.
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I bought this one. http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...temnumber=7340 Very nice. The pump has inlet filter. Take mimum of 8 gallons to get it to pump. BTW I have the one of there Tire removers http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=34542 and tire balancer that works great. NAPA sells the weights. http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=39741 the washer is on sale.
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100% Kerosene. Usually cheaper at a gas station. Around here, we just have seperate pumps.....gas, diesel, kerosene.... When it's time to change the washer juice, we use the old kerosene to light the burn pile!!! (Fire in the hole!!)
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