In other words:
BOOM goes the gasoline!
-JimD
On Oct 23, 2010, at 11:09 AM, CycloFiend wrote:
on 10/22/10 11:47 AM, MichaelH at mhech...@gmail.com wrote:
I used gasoline once. It worked very well. Then I put it in a jar
and collected colorado potato beetles in it. That worked well too.
On Sat, 2010-10-23 at 11:09 -0700, CycloFiend wrote:
>
> Just to provide the caveat - gasoline is highly combustible. It is
> generally not recommended to be used for cleaning applications -
> especially in enclosed areas where fumes can be ignited by sparks or
> electrical connections (water hea
on 10/22/10 11:47 AM, MichaelH at mhech...@gmail.com wrote:
> I used gasoline once. It worked very well. Then I put it in a jar
> and collected colorado potato beetles in it. That worked well too.
Just to provide the caveat - gasoline is highly combustible. It is
generally not recommended to
FWIW, if you let your min spir sit quietly in a jar for half an hour,
all of the ugly sludge settles to the bottom and then you can (if your
hands are steady) pour the cleanish stuff off into another jar,
leaving said sludge behind (and worry about how you can get the ugly
sludge out of the first j
I used gasoline once. It worked very well. Then I put it in a jar
and collected colorado potato beetles in it. That worked well too.
Michael
Who always wondered how the beetles got from Colorado to VT? On a
tandem?
On Oct 22, 2:38 pm, jlvota wrote:
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>
> The only other thing that I have foun
Sending the dirty mineral spirits through a coffee filter has always
worked pretty well for me, too. It filters out all of the clumps of
sludge and grit pretty well.
The only other thing that I have found that works better than mineral
spirits is gasoline, but there's a lot of bad stuff involved
Thanks for the info..
From: MichaelH
To: RBW Owners Bunch
Sent: Fri, October 22, 2010 12:06:33 PM
Subject: [RBW] Re: Fall change of pace
Yes. When I use the parks chain cleaner
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Thanks for the tip, Michael I have been walking past my jug of
mineral spririts for years, heading straight for my orange-
whatchamacallit-cleaner... I'll give it a shot, although I'm sure I
WILL miss the smell of a fresh, citris-soaked chain...
BB
On Oct 22, 1:06 pm, MichaelH wrote:
> Yes.
Yes. When I use the parks chain cleaner that I have I always use
mineral spirits. That's what works best.Mineral spirits will
evaporate off of the chain, whereas all other cleaners need to be
washed off, otherwise they will be removing the new lube too. So how
do you wash a chain in soap and
