Parts cleaner?

[Bird]

Of course I had a lot of parts cleaning to do when I was repairing/rebuilding mechanics' air tools. I had a parts cleaning cabinet from Northern Tool and used Varsol that I bought from the local Exxon distributor. I don't know of anything that would work any better than that did. Anything, such as rust, that it didn't clean went into the sandblast cabinet with glass beads instead of sand.

 

[screamin400]

Pretty sure our last stuff was from Napa and not impressive and smelled. May how to check out harbor freight and tsc.

 

[JRobyn]

I find that "greased lightning" from Sam's Club works a lot better than Simple Green. Same idea, but a yellow jug and stronger. That, plus a little brushing on thick/stubborn crud followed by a blast from the hose nozzle. Blow out with compressed air nozzle, particularly if there's naked iron or steel to rust.

- Jay

 

[Mace Canute]

I've always used either Varsol or just plain paint thinner in my parts washer. If it's really tough I use oven cleaner and I've also used Zep's Purple Cleaner full strength on some things and I was very pleased with the results.