Re: Favorite Carb/Parts Cleaner?
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Even though it's not as potent as it used to be, I think the Berrymans Parts Dip is the best for carbs, etc.
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Re: Favorite Carb/Parts Cleaner?
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07/18/12 04:33 PM
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For some kinds of gunk, I find brake cleaner works a ton better than parts cleaner. I try a blast of both and sometimes some cheapo no-name brake cleaner blasts away stuff I'd have to scrub off with a dip or carb spray.
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Re: Favorite Carb/Parts Cleaner?
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Re: Favorite Carb/Parts Cleaner?
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Re: Favorite Carb/Parts Cleaner?
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08/15/12 02:06 PM
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I use a cleaner called Awesome, get it at the Dollar Store. At $2.00 a quart, it can't be beat and works great. Won't burn your skin or stink the place up. 
Never thought of it as a parts cleaner, but I don't know why. It cleaned everything I've ever sprayed it on.
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Re: Favorite Carb/Parts Cleaner?
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B-12 ChemtoolŪ Carburetor, Choke and Throttle Body Cleaner
works good got it at O'rielly's
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Re: Favorite Carb/Parts Cleaner?
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Methylene chloride was the active ingredient is those foul smelling carb cleaners, you know the ones that actually work. Pretty hard to find anymore short of a chem supply.
Kevin
Spray gun cleaner like I pictured above is the same as the old carb cleaner.
I have a retail grill shop, sell grills and pool supplys. We also recondition grills, many. We used to use a 55 gallon drum of that stuff to dip tops and bottems of aluminum grill shells in. Then pull them out AND PRESSURE WASH THEM CLEAN. So about the caps, got gloves on in the truck shop right now.
This was about 15 years ago, now we just use a pressure washer, but boy did that stuff work. Went through many drums of it.
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Re: Favorite Carb/Parts Cleaner?
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Methylene chloride was the active ingredient is those foul smelling carb cleaners, you know the ones that actually work. Pretty hard to find anymore short of a chem supply.
Kevin
The real stinky component of that good carb dip was cresylic acid, plus creosols and rosin soap. Sold a lot of it when I used to have a Safety Klean route. They definitely have changed the formula to remove most of the nasty components. In my print shop days we used to get straight 100% methylene Chloride in gallon cans. Evaporated so fast on a rag that ice crystals would form. Great stuff but 30 years later and I wonder about my liver...lol...look up the MSDS info on Methylene Chloride and Cresylic acid and you'll know why. Nasty stuff.
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