What kind of parts cleaner to you use to clean the housings? Ive been soaking my rotor's and other misc internal's in 'Purple Power', some cheap automotive degreaser that walmart sell's for like $4 a gallon. It gets the job done without any effort on my part. However on the back it mentiones that i should dilute it 15:1 for chrome (im doing about 12:1 right now, not to worried) but mentions to test it on aluminum before soaking. Do i have anything to worry about
Ive got a junk housing soaking in it now, been their for about 2h'rs. It is really cleaning it up, chrome never looked so bright, however i dont know if im causing unseen damage at the same time -Jacob |
i think they are give a warning because some soaps or cleaning agents tend to fog up polished rims or others of the sort. basically on housings, if it's clean then it's all good.
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I use Simple Green stuff... it doesn't smell half as bad as the purple stuff.
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I usually don't clean housings like that per se. There's a blasting place about 1/2hr drive from here that does nothing but baking soda blasting. Works extremely well for cleaning up housings.
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be careful with that stuff on the rotors, cuz it will eat the bearings! otherwise ive seen it work great!
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Certain chemicals will eat aluminum. You are currently etching the surface of your junk housings. Even though you may not see it, it is occuring. Should you clean a part that has a tight tolerance you may etch too much and ruin the part.
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why do these really large images attach to my post???? This is the second time some pic of a turbo jumps onto my post. I have never seen this pic b4!!!!
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housings are al?
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Is he talking about alum parts??? What is the question??? I answered the aluminum thing
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Originally Posted by jhammons01' date='Dec 13 2004, 04:25 PM
Is he talking about alum parts??? What is the question??? I answered the aluminum thing
are you talking about me? my question was are the housings made of al. the post says that they are. |
The rotor housings are aluminum. I usually use mineral spirits to clean them, but I used purple power this last time. I don't soak the housings, though, just wash them.
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straight al? i dont know much about metals but it doesnt seem strong enough
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They are aluminum cast around a chromed steel ring (the trochoid surface)
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if you can find a place that still has a steam jenny/jinny or whatever they call it, they work wonders
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Castrol parts wash fluid. Scrub 'em down and dry them off. Good to go.
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Castrol has aluminum etching chemicals.......
For very fast and very clean and very dry use M.E.K. from Lowes.(paints) No sparks and keep you face away when you 1st open it.....like sniffing Locker room (poppets). This will blow away any degreaser and not harm your stuff. No Smoking! |
For what it's worth.........I retrofitted my partswasher to use a product called Nuphree. It has no issues with any metal, and when filtered, will last forever. The chemistry is such that nothing attaches to it. Currently, it is being used in the printing industry to clean presses and in manufacture of oem metal parts. It is amazing how well it works.
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NuPhree has not been taken to the market under that name as yet. A friend who has the rights to distribute and market to the private sector hasn't taken it there yet because he is scrambling to keep up with his other business. I have been encouraging him to get it there as soon as possible because of the properties of it.
NuPh - neutral PH Hope that helps shed some light on it. db |
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