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Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 3:00
PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Fw: Lead Solvent
or Cleaner
A little squirt of Ez-Off Oven cleaner
contains lye and is much more convenient. BTW, works very well
on front, rear and intermediate
housings to get off carbon and grease. Use protective gloves and
goggles
and rinse well after use and spray with
your favorite rust preventative.
Jim Brewer
Albemarle, NC
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:40:09 -0500, Ed
Anderson wrote:
> Boy,
that might do the job, Ok. I remember mother used to make
Lye
> soap with Hog fat - that would take
paint off cars, skin off
> people, etc. Just might do the
job. Use to be able to get it a
> plumbing stores - but, doubt they
carry it anymore - too corrosive.
>
> Ed
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> From: "Mark R Steitle"
<mark.steitle@austin.utexas.edu> To: "Rotary
> motors in aircraft"
<flyrotary@lancaironline.net> Sent: Monday,
> January 23, 2006 2:24 PM Subject:
[FlyRotary] Re: Fw: Lead Solvent
> or Cleaner
>
>
> Ed,
> I've been trying to remember what my
dad told me they used to use
> to clean their spark plugs.
Finally, I remembered... it was lye.
> I never tried it myself, but it could
be worth a try. Don't know
> where to go to buy it
though.
>
> Mark s.
>
>
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> From: Rotary motors in
aircraft
> [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net]
On Behalf Of rijakits Sent:
> Friday, January 20, 2006 7:29 PM To:
Rotary motors in aircraft
> Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Fw: Lead
Solvent or Cleaner
>
> Hey Ed,
>
>
> I like the Coke idea!!
> There is a list out there with "1001
uses for Coke!", the last is "
> You also can trink it!!"
:))
>
> Googling around on "Acetone lead
remover", I found this:
>
>
> _______________________________________________________________
>
>
> Lead Removal
>
>
> For really stubborn lead removal try a
50/50 mix of 3% Hydrogen
> Peroxide
> (the common drug store variety) and
white vinegar. Plug the bore,
> fill it
> up using a dropper or syringe and let
it stand for 5-10 minutes.
> (Do not
> let it stand for too long.) You may
get some foaming so protect the
> barrel's
> external finish as this solution is
not kind to bluing--so take
> appropriate
> precautions. Drain and wipe out the
black muck that used to be lead
> and then immediately clean well with
bore cleaner.
>
> Thanks to Joe Sledge for this
recipe.
>
>
> Pure turpentine has reportedly also
been used as a lead remover.
>
>
> _______________________________________________________________
>
>
> You will find this in http://www.frfrogspad.com/homemade.htm#top
>
>
> Also, as Acetone is the prime solvent
in lots of paint
> removers/cleaners/etc. you might want
to experiment with Acetone.
>
>
> I think someone in our hangar
mentioned a mix of Acetone and
> Hydrogen Peroxide, but I am not sure
wether this possible/makes any
> sense/is hear-say/or what - don't blow
up your new hangar trying
> plug-cleaner-witchcraft!!
>
> Thomas J.
>
>
> PS: I apolgize if this is/was old news
- I am about 80 messages
> behind!
>
>
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> From: "Ernest Christley"
<echristley@nc.rr.com>
> To: "Rotary motors in aircraft"
<flyrotary@lancaironline.net> Sent:
> Thursday, January 19, 2006 1:49 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Fw:
> Lead Solvent or Cleaner
>
>
>> Ed Anderson
wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I suspect that
most of these products may be cleaners rather
>>> than solvents
despite what they are called. Anyone really know?
>>>
>>
>> I have no idea
about the cleaners vs solvents (how does it clean
>> it if it doesn't
dissolve it?), but I've been thinking. The
>> electrodes
>>
> should
>> be made of a fairly
corrosive resistent material. Couldn't they
>> withstand a short
bath in a mild acid...maybe a little vinegar or
>> a
>>
> warm
>> Coke? The
burnt lead should react quickly.
>>
>>
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