Penetrating Fluid
- Thread starter Vizslaman
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Been very happy/surprised with this;
sovereign-omega.co.uk
Omega 636 Ultimate 4 in 1 Penetrating Oil – Sovereign Lubricants (UK) Ltd
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- Mid Norfolk
A friend of mine used to home brew his own from acetone and ATF, never tried it myself.
Pretty much everything is better than WD40. Plusgas is good as is the Fuchs stuff.
When faced with something really stubborn, I use contact cleaner/lube which includes an acid in the solvent to really eat away the rust, but don't leave it too long or it will cause damage.
Brake fluid is also pretty good, but beware if you plan on applying heat later.
Pretty much everything is better than WD40. Plusgas is good as is the Fuchs stuff.
When faced with something really stubborn, I use contact cleaner/lube which includes an acid in the solvent to really eat away the rust, but don't leave it too long or it will cause damage.
Brake fluid is also pretty good, but beware if you plan on applying heat later.
Ed's Red.
45% atf, 45% acetone & 10% brake fluid.
Started making and using it about 4 years ago and I've been using it since,
It's as good as anything out there that I've found tbh, and cheap.
The brake fluid keeps it from separating and the acetone youl get in a cosmetics shop by the ltr.
45% atf, 45% acetone & 10% brake fluid.
Started making and using it about 4 years ago and I've been using it since,
It's as good as anything out there that I've found tbh, and cheap.
The brake fluid keeps it from separating and the acetone youl get in a cosmetics shop by the ltr.
Paddington
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- Soggy Shropshire
I have never found it effective but some people swear by hot candle wax.
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Ouch.
- Location
- East Sussex
Diesel with a slosh of hydraulic oil. Too much and it won’t spray out of a window cleaner bottle sort of thing so go easy on the oil
davidroberts30
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- pembrokeshire
Dot 3,4 or 5 or mineral??
Isnt plusgas just a dear way of buying kerosine ?
Well Perhaps spice up some kero with white spirit or meths subs or somethong or maybe even acetone as above....
And then Mix it in bulk instead of the little cans that plusgas comes in
Well Perhaps spice up some kero with white spirit or meths subs or somethong or maybe even acetone as above....
And then Mix it in bulk instead of the little cans that plusgas comes in
No pain no gain they say....
The idea of the acetone is it carries the oil with it as it wicks, its basically a solvent that's used quite a lot of the time in industry for cleaning , the likes of diesel is too dense for the job but hey if it works for some.Isnt plusgas just a dear way of buying kerosine ?
Well Perhaps spice up some kero with white spirit or meths subs or somethong or maybe even acetone as above....
And then Mix it in bulk instead of the little cans that plusgas comes in
But if we were to be totally truthful any concoction or bought product will only go so far, the rest is a placebo I'm afraid, like when you change the oil in your car, you think it goes faster.
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- Darlington
Personally I wouldn't use neat diesel it doesn't have the rust inhibitor additives it used to.
You can buy acetone by the gallon,in the builder merchants , builders use it as cleaner when fibreglass roofing
Cowcalf
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- North of Scotland
coca cola has had success with pistons
- Location
- East Sussex
But with this new bio in it it does clean the inside of metal tanks rather well as can be shown by rusty filters, I thought it also seems to have more creep. Could well be wrong.
if they're scrap, why not just get a hefty bit plate and drill 4 holes to fit the heads bolt holes, a 20mm thread in the centre, throw a bit plate on to the top of the piston then screw in a length of threaded rod and push the feckers out
Tubbylew
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- Herefordshire
Does work pretty well, you need to get a good bit of heat into the part, but it doesn't evaporate like wd or anything like that.
Because on a 23C the crank comes out the end of the block and I need to push conrods and pistons up the bores to clear the crankshaft webs