Trying to get in contact with Tom Sanders...
Mike Carney
Eugene, OR
> I have to chime in about not liking gasoline for cleaning bike stuff. I
\r?\n> am sure that for aluminums and surface cleaning, it might be OK, but it
\r?\n> tends to have some ingredients that eat chains and freewheels so they
\r?\n> don't work well any more.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> I vote for Citrus solvents! Here's a cool trick. Take a retired and
\r?\n> uncool water bottle (Trek?) and put a grungy chain in it with maybe 3
\r?\n> tablespoons of citrus solvent and double the amount of water. Seal the
\r?\n> top and shake... You can do this maybe twice and rinse in water and
\r?\n> viola!
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Dale Brown
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\r?\n> -----Original Message-----
\r?\n> From: Jerome & Elizabeth Moos
\r?\n> To: Don_Rogers@brown.edu; classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
\r?\n> Sent: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 07:13:53 -0800 (PST)
\r?\n> Subject: Re: [CR]Re: Cleaning Parts
\r?\n>
\r?\n> I used to use kerosene, which is at least less volatile and a little
\r?\n> harder to
\r?\n> ignite than gasoline. By the way, having been involved in
\r?\n> manufacturing both,
\r?\n> Mineral Spirits, which is sold in hardware stores as a solvent, is
\r?\n> essentially a
\r?\n> semi-refined gasoline. It is lower in aromatics, so perhaps a bit less
\r?\n> carcenogenic than gasoline, but just as volatile and flammable.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> I now generally use citrus degreaser. I prefer concentrated
\r?\n> industrial
\r?\n> grades. The kind you see in consumer spray bottles is highly diluted,
\r?\n> with an
\r?\n> emulsifier added to make it more soluable in water. My big reason for
\r?\n> switching
\r?\n> from kerosene was that I used to have a very large enclosed front porch
\r?\n> where I
\r?\n> worked on bikes. But my wife objected to the smell of kerosene, so I
\r?\n> switched
\r?\n> to citrus degreaser to keep peace in the family. She didn't mind the
\r?\n> citrus
\r?\n> smell.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Regards,
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Jerry Moos
\r?\n> Big Spring, TX
\r?\n>
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Don Rogers wrote:
\r?\n> On 2/14/06, Earle Young wrote:
\r?\n> > I know we are supposed to remain civil here, but I have to weigh in:
\r?\n> USIN
\r?\n> G
\r?\n> > GASOLINE TO CLEAN PARTS IS REALLY, REALLY STUPID!
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Does anyone have thoughts on kerosene instead? I've heard it's just as
\r?\n> effective and much safer, but it was a slightly questionable source
\r?\n> that I heard that from.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Don Rogers
\r?\n> Rumford, RI