Pine Sol Carb Cleaner - Before & After
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Ichiban Moto
Bad Ass Cafe' Style
cosworth said:
I will try it on the next set of carbs sent to me !
http://youtu.be/R1DtY2VwSyY
620dark
You can always get it running with time or money.
Ichiban Moto said:
Awesome! Also, your sander looks like it has a :| face.
I found the PineSol works better when it is hot, so when I dilute the PineSol with water, I either use boiling water or the hottest water from the tap. It does tend to make the place smell like a janitor's closet though...
pacomotorstuff
Coast to Coast
Regarding Pinesol, you can get its Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) online if you want to know what the active chemical(s) are in it - and indeed any commercially available product should have its MSDS readily available (online).
For Pinesol, the 2 hazardous chemicals in its make up are alkyl alcohol ethyoxalates (up to 7%) and glycolic acid (up to 5%). I'm guessing the alcohol groups are for disinfection and the glycolic acid is the etching agent that cleans the crud out of the carbs. The "piney" smell is probably something used to mask the chemical stink.
pH - the measure of the acidity - is 2 to 3, so pretty acidic and a good idea to wear protective clothing and eye protection per the suggestions above as the mfg says to do a 15 minute clean water rinse after contact exposure and to use in a well-ventilated space.
DO NOT MIX WITH BLEACH - people have been killed doing this.
Nothing in my quick search of the data base suggests use with boiling / hot water, but I'm guessing it's a simple chemical rate increase due to the higher temperature.
As for myself, I've always used pickling vinegar; makes the shop smell like an English chip shop sometimes but far better than Pinesol any day. I forgot about an old carb I was soaking in vinegar once and it came out unusable - had etched so much, it looked like something from an archeological dig LOL.
I've always wanted to try diluted Alumiprep to clean a corroded carb and need to find an old crusty one I don't care about to test on first...
Be careful out there.
Pat
For Pinesol, the 2 hazardous chemicals in its make up are alkyl alcohol ethyoxalates (up to 7%) and glycolic acid (up to 5%). I'm guessing the alcohol groups are for disinfection and the glycolic acid is the etching agent that cleans the crud out of the carbs. The "piney" smell is probably something used to mask the chemical stink.
pH - the measure of the acidity - is 2 to 3, so pretty acidic and a good idea to wear protective clothing and eye protection per the suggestions above as the mfg says to do a 15 minute clean water rinse after contact exposure and to use in a well-ventilated space.
DO NOT MIX WITH BLEACH - people have been killed doing this.
Nothing in my quick search of the data base suggests use with boiling / hot water, but I'm guessing it's a simple chemical rate increase due to the higher temperature.
As for myself, I've always used pickling vinegar; makes the shop smell like an English chip shop sometimes but far better than Pinesol any day. I forgot about an old carb I was soaking in vinegar once and it came out unusable - had etched so much, it looked like something from an archeological dig LOL.
I've always wanted to try diluted Alumiprep to clean a corroded carb and need to find an old crusty one I don't care about to test on first...
Be careful out there.
Pat
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The acid etches the aluminum of the carb. Makes it pretty and shiny....however, it is also etching the small passages in the carb....Leave it long enough and you will have a clean looking lump of aluminum....
Disassembly and ultrasonic cleaning with a tiny bit of surfactant (dawn, palmolive, windex, fantastic) will actually clean the small passages and not remove any material.
If you are removing aluminum on the outside, you are removing aluminum on the inside.
Personally, I prefer a dirty working carb to a shiny non-working carb.
Soda blast the outside to make it pretty, ultrasonically clean the inside = best results.
Disassembly and ultrasonic cleaning with a tiny bit of surfactant (dawn, palmolive, windex, fantastic) will actually clean the small passages and not remove any material.
If you are removing aluminum on the outside, you are removing aluminum on the inside.
Personally, I prefer a dirty working carb to a shiny non-working carb.
Soda blast the outside to make it pretty, ultrasonically clean the inside = best results.
