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- From: zrol01@trc.amoco.com (Richard O. Lindsay)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: cleaning solvents
- Message-ID: <C0C5HE.FE8@trc.amoco.com>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 15:24:49 GMT
- References: <4201.88.uupcb@chaos.lrk.ar.us>
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- Organization: Amoco Production Company, Tulsa Research
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- In article uupcb@chaos.lrk.ar.us, dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams) writes:
- >
- > "On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me..."
- >
- > I'm now the happy owner of a solvent tank. My wife picked it up at a
- >company auction for $40. It's made of 1/8 steel plate with a
- >counterbalanced lid and even has provision for a 6" vent stack.
-
- Add a cooler to the exhaust stack and get recycled and distilled degreaser.
-
- > It apparently was filled with lacquer thinner before we got it. (phew!)
-
- Sounds like a terrorist weapon to me.
-
- >It holds approximately 50 gallons. (200 liters)
- >
- > For some reason it doesn't have a drain plug, which I will remedy
- >before I put it into use. The question is, what do I put in it? It
- >will be primarily used for cleaning cylinder heads and engine blocks.
- >I could get some appropriate heating elements if required, but I'd just
- >as soon use it cold.
- >
-
- Try tri-chlorethane. Some shops call it carbo-trichlor. It is a non-
- flamable solvent frequently used in industrial degreasers. Works well
- cold. Works wonderfully hot. And as an additional bonus, you get to own
- your own little section of the polar ozone hole! What a deal!!!
-
- > There are, so far as I know, no local environmental restrictions on
- >solvents.
- >
-
- Rick
-
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