Re: Recreational Chemicals for Sciroccos

[Dan Brideau <dan@hobbyetc.com>]

Amen to that.

1,1,1 Trichlorethane was the main ingredient in the electric motor cleaner we (radio control car racing types) had been using until about 4 or 5 years ago.  Great stuff.

Dan Brideau
http://www.hobbyetc.com/scirocco


At 11:50 PM 8/23/99 -0400, Marc Getty wrote:
>
>Next chemical to try: Xylol (a brand name of Xylene). Can be had from any
>photography supply house.
>
>If that does not work, go for the the really strong stuff: TCE. TriChlorEthane
>is as nasty as it gets. You can hang metal over a vat of TCE and everything
>will come off of it just from the fumes that TCE gives off. Mind you, TCE is
>cancer causing and is also illegal to transport across state lines so it is
>difficult to get, but well worth it. It is commonly used to activate the glue
>on property tags that you put on equipment and the like, maybe Seton has them?
>(http://seton.com)
>
>I used TCE and a full toxic face mask with breather hose when I cleaned out
>the black goop that was in the bottom of my Jetta's trunk. It came off no
>problem, just ran out of rags quickly to wipe the crap up with.
>
>-Marc
>
>> I'm sure everyone has a favorite chemical solvent.  Depending on
>> what it is, I usually start with something like diluted Simplegreen,
>> or Windex, or bug & tar remover.  All of them have their uses.   Sometimes
>> I'll step it up to Castrol Super Clean (fairly nasty), carb cleaner
>> (mostly nasty), or the ultimate: brake cleaner (very nasty, _especially_
>> because it smells like you WANT to breathe it!)
>> 
>> Who here has removed the sound deadening material from under their
>> hoods?  Anyone who has knows where I'm going...I'm in the middle
>> of doing it now, with the hood off the car.  My white car has the
>> borrowed hood from my silver 84 racer-2b...looks weird...
>> 
>> Anyway, back to the job at hand.
>> 
>> The sound deadening foam just easily scrapes away, leaving you with the
>> feeling that the job is going to be quite easy.  HA!  The glue holding
>> the foam backing to the underside of the hood is incredible stuff,
>> NASA should be using it to seal shuttle fuel tanks.  After ratcheting
>> though my usual store of chemical attack weapons:  Castol just annoyed
>> the glue, I was only able to scrap off another thin layer with my
>> plastic putty knife.  Carb cleaner was a bit more effective when
>> combined with a flat razor blade (hello gouges in the paint).  Brake
>> cleaner was the most effective, turning the glue into a slick, sticking
>> glue-slime that really didn't come all the way off, and tended to stick
>> to everything in little clumps.  Amusing, but the fumes have taken
>> several months off my life.  This got old after only one small section,
>> not much result for an hours work.
>> 
>> Griping about it at work today, one of my coworkers (not Jim :) ) tossed
>> out an idea...one that's so good, I hesitate to share, but I'm sooo
>> impressed I just have to tell as it just never occured to me....
>> 
>> Easyoff oven cleaner.  Oh my gawd, I have a new favorite super chemical
>> weapon.  Spray it on, wait a while (or just fertilize your lawn like me
>> then give the kids a bath.)  Apply the formerly highly ineffective
>> plastic scraper, and the glue is coming away in sheets that look like
>> grey alien slime in seconds, with very little effort.   Remember to
>> do this outside, with gloves.
>> 
>> Easyoff:  Approved by Dick.  (The beer commercials, remember?)
>> 
>> Anyone else have a favorite solvent?  Or better yet, a favorite solvent
>> story?
>> 
>> later!
>> 
>> ==Brett
>> 
>>   \/  '84 Scirocco (ITB racer 2B) | "Hot VW's, take two home. They're small"
>> \/\/ '88 Scirocco 16v (Show), '85 Scirocco (Winter) | - brett@netacc.net
>> 
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>-Marc
>'74 VW Thing
>'84 Jetta GLi SLC (for sale in Philadelphia)
>'87 Scirocco 16V (I pick it up on 7/3!)
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