leversole Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 Forgetting everything about health and environmental issues...what makes the best degreaser for a parts washer?Diesel?MEK?Something even better? Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/42235-solvent/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlotpilot Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 varsol if you can find it Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/42235-solvent/#findComment-307895 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 ya mineral spirits if you can find it,,,i would call petrolium outfit,,,and ask for oppinion...good luck...bob Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/42235-solvent/#findComment-307896 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 41chevy Posted October 18, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted October 18, 2015 Definatly NOT MEK. Absorbed through the skin and goes to kidneys, ends in massive kidney problems with a minute accumulation.Tractor Supply sells Stoddard parts cleaner solvent $40 for a 5 gallon pail. NAPA sells it also same price. My washer takes 2 pails =10 gallons 3 Quote "OPERTUNITY IS MISSED BY MOST PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS DRESSED IN OVERALLS AND LOOKS LIKE WORK" Thomas Edison “Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely, in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘Holy shit, what a ride!’” P.T.CHESHIRE Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/42235-solvent/#findComment-307899 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baxter Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 I use K-1. Can burn in waste oil heater when changing. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/42235-solvent/#findComment-307907 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fxfymn Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 what makes the best degreaser for a parts washer?Someone who will send the parts back to you all cleaned up. 2 Quote Money, sex, and fire; everybody thinks everyone else is getting more than they are! Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/42235-solvent/#findComment-307930 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirtymilkman Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 A woman Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/42235-solvent/#findComment-307933 Share on other sites More sharing options...
1977vega Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 Dishwasher when the wife isn't home Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/42235-solvent/#findComment-307935 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 dont have a washer yet,,,im doing old school with a bowl of gasoline.lol.bob Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/42235-solvent/#findComment-307941 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vladislav Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 dont have a washer yet,,,im doing old school with a bowl of gasoline.lol.bobMe the same Quote Никогда не бывает слишком много грузовиков! leversole 11.2012 Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/42235-solvent/#findComment-307945 Share on other sites More sharing options...
leversole Posted October 19, 2015 Author Share Posted October 19, 2015 Thanks all! May try the stoddard solvent...Can you imagine what 60 year old grease would do to the white interior of the ol' ladys kenmore quiet wash II?!?!?!? Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/42235-solvent/#findComment-308001 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fxfymn Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Can you imagine what 60 year old grease would do to the white interior of the ol' ladys kenmore quiet wash II?!?!?!? Of the many "Thank God for stupid people so I can have a nice house" calls I ever ran one of the top was the lady who put her mechanic husband's greasy clothes in the washing machine and filled it with gasoline as the wash liquid. Don't now if they got clean, but they did burn up along with most of her house. 2 Quote Money, sex, and fire; everybody thinks everyone else is getting more than they are! Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/42235-solvent/#findComment-308046 Share on other sites More sharing options...
other dog Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Me the same me too. 1 Quote Producer of poorly photo-chopped pictures since 1999. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/42235-solvent/#findComment-308047 Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddeere Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 I use diesel fuel or K-1 mixed with Gunk super concentrate degreaser. One quart makes 2 1/2 gallons. Washes off with water almost oil free when done. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/42235-solvent/#findComment-308060 Share on other sites More sharing options...
41chevy Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Of the many "Thank God for stupid people so I can have a nice house" calls I ever ran one of the top was the lady who put her mechanic husband's greasy clothes in the washing machine and filled it with gasoline as the wash liquid. Don't now if they got clean, but they did burn up along with most of her house.You see my former Einstein tire guy a few weeks ago at my yard??Gallon anti freeze jug with 1/2 gallon gas, pin hole in cap to "squirt" gas and soak off the cold patch.So my ex tire guy squirted some gas into a 11 x 24 tire and decided to light it up to heat a cold patch up to remove it. Einstein squirted more gas into the lit tire patch, which than followed the stream to the plastic anti freeze jug. Einstein throws the jug across the yard with a pretty trail of burning gas. . . right towards his tire service truck. Runs to kick the jug away from the truck and now leaves a bigger trail of fire to my row of extra AC MaCK tires.Mean while the tire and cold patch are now making black smoke from the rubber burning, gas trails burning in the yard and Einsteins boot and pants are now burning. After we put him, the tire and the gas trails out and I told him to leave and don't ever come back, he asks my to get paid for his service call! 2 Quote "OPERTUNITY IS MISSED BY MOST PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS DRESSED IN OVERALLS AND LOOKS LIKE WORK" Thomas Edison “Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely, in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘Holy shit, what a ride!’” P.T.CHESHIRE Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/42235-solvent/#findComment-308080 Share on other sites More sharing options...
220cummins Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 MEK steer very clear of. Like 41 said. Anything with ketones are bad for you. I used kerosene for the longest time or clean fuel works good to. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/42235-solvent/#findComment-308082 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gmerrill0516 Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Mek will clean anything right up but you will crap out your liver and that is bad if you don't know it. (You kinda die from that) I like the purple degreaser from the parts store and hot water if you can. Its not as good as diesel, K-1 or Gas. Just remember some stuff burns like crazy and assume all of it soaks into your skin and builds up in your blood so ventilate and wear good heavy black rubber gloves or something. Cancer, if you have not seen it in action is not an easy way to go. It sucks real bad in fact. Avoid exposer to chemicals wherever you can. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/42235-solvent/#findComment-308084 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fxfymn Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 You see my former Einstein tire guy a few weeks ago at my yard??Gallon anti freeze jug with 1/2 gallon gas, pin hole in cap to "squirt" gas and soak off the cold patch.So my ex tire guy squirted some gas into a 11 x 24 tire and decided to light it up to heat a cold patch up to remove it. Einstein squirted more gas into the lit tire patch, which than followed the stream to the plastic anti freeze jug. Einstein throws the jug across the yard with a pretty trail of burning gas. . . right towards his tire service truck. Runs to kick the jug away from the truck and now leaves a bigger trail of fire to my row of extra AC MaCK tires.Mean while the tire and cold patch are now making black smoke from the rubber burning, gas trails burning in the yard and Einsteins boot and pants are now burning. After we put him, the tire and the gas trails out and I told him to leave and don't ever come back, he asks my to get paid for his service call! How come there is never a bystander to catch action like this on their phone and post it for the rest of us? Quote Money, sex, and fire; everybody thinks everyone else is getting more than they are! Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/42235-solvent/#findComment-308274 Share on other sites More sharing options...
41chevy Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 How come there is never a bystander to catch action like this on their phone and post it for the rest of us?My two workers were to busy laughing, I was too busy attempting to stop my place from burning. Quote "OPERTUNITY IS MISSED BY MOST PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS DRESSED IN OVERALLS AND LOOKS LIKE WORK" Thomas Edison “Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely, in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘Holy shit, what a ride!’” P.T.CHESHIRE Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/42235-solvent/#findComment-308304 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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