Cleaning tips

[Bryanj]

Didnt safety kleen used to rent you the top and come round exchanging the barrel every so many weeks?

[Nurse Julie]

Didnt safety kleen used to rent you the top and come round exchanging the barrel every so many weeks?

Yes Bryan. We have a Safety Kleen system here (no contract now though 😊😊😊)

[Bryanj]

Remember using one back in the 70's and the man that came to swop the drums saying ours was always the dirtiest and lowest level in drum for some reason?

[cantarauk]

Thanks K2-K6 for the assembly recommendation.

I completely forgot that I had assembly lube packed away which all been well will do the trick.

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[Laverda Dave]

Didnt safety kleen used to rent you the top and come round exchanging the barrel every so many weeks?

Oh, did they, I must be overdue.....

[MrDavo]

When I worked for the Honda Superbike team we had a Snap-On parts washer, as they were one of our sponsors. I'm still intrigued by Hairygit's hobby of restoring classic anesthetic machines. Its either purely a mechanical thing or a neat way of getting as high as a kite... 

Re the assembly lube, I have both those products from past rebuilds. My Z1 project motor was rebuilt an unknown time ago, and has never been started (I can see brand new pistons and valves when I shine a torch through the plug holes). I have already squirted some oil in through the plug holes, but I'm minded to whip the cam cover off and smear the cam lobes with the Redline stuff before I try and turn it over, in case the original assembly lube is long gone. I'd use the liquid stuff, but it could be a long time before I'm in a position to start the engine so it could seep away again.

[Trigger]

Remember using one back in the 70's and the man that came to swop the drums saying ours was always the dirtiest and lowest level in drum for some reason?

I think they used to say that to any busy workshop.
My safety kleen wash is from 1992, the barrel is going a little rusty now and can't find another one.

[JonnyB]

Still catching up on posts,

My Old man, 85 now, was a chief tech in the RAF at Scampton, he tells tales of trichloroethylene or trich as he calls it, the RAF used to use it as a de-greaser, the trich tanks were heated and they would dip parts into it and they came out totally de-greased, one day an engineer was overcome by the fumes and fell into the tank, he did did not survive.

Another, where after he had retired he "acquired" a 5 gallon drum of they stuff and used to use t as a de-greaser in his clock shop, he accidentally spilt a small quantity on an open heater, the fluid vaporised, he abandoned the workshop and on his return everything in it had been de-greased.

Still, It's good stuff