- 1. Brake Cleaner vs. Carb Cleaner (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Beels <beels@technologist.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 20:11:27 -0500
- Out of both so I was at Wally World and noticed that there's no Wally World private label brake cleaner. Only carb cleaner. Since I hate paying $1.78 for a can of Prestone or some other "name" when t
- /html/shop-talk/2002-02/msg00162.html (7,620 bytes)
- 2. RE: Brake Cleaner vs. Carb Cleaner (score: 1)
- Author: Randall Young <ryoung@NAVCOMTECH.COM>
- Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 18:07:14 -0800
- Not sure it's relevant, but many years ago a friend of mine tried to clean some bonded brake shoes in an industrial solvent. It ruined the bond between the linings and the shoes, the linings fell off
- /html/shop-talk/2002-02/msg00163.html (8,075 bytes)
- 3. Re: Brake Cleaner vs. Carb Cleaner (score: 1)
- Author: Lawrence R Zink <zink@pdq.net>
- Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 20:27:47 -0600
- Carb cleaner is formulated to desolve gums and varnishes present in gasoline, plus leave a film of lubricant on the metal parts. This is not the kind of thing you want on brake drums, rotors and pads
- /html/shop-talk/2002-02/msg00164.html (8,479 bytes)
- 4. Re: Brake Cleaner vs. Carb Cleaner (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Beels <beels@technologist.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 01:29:10 -0500
- Awww, the lube wears out in a hundred miles or so anyways..... :-O The Wal-Mart carb cleaner has acetone and toulene and left the stuff I blasted pretty dry. If that stuff has any lube, it must be pr
- /html/shop-talk/2002-02/msg00166.html (9,087 bytes)
- 5. Re: Brake Cleaner vs. Carb Cleaner (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Sloane <msloane@att.net>
- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 05:48:17 -0500
- According to an engineer friend whose company makes automotive products, there is no difference between carb and brake cleaners from the same manufacturers. But there are differences in contents amon
- /html/shop-talk/2002-02/msg00167.html (8,492 bytes)
- 6. Re: Brake Cleaner vs. Carb Cleaner (score: 1)
- Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 14:57:01 -0500
- ...I know this thread has been going on longer than I've been reading it, but I find the above a little hard to swallow. I've sprayed enough of both to see off a few species of spotted owl, and they
- /html/shop-talk/2002-02/msg00177.html (8,199 bytes)
- 7. Re: Brake Cleaner vs. Carb Cleaner (score: 1)
- Author: "Nolan Penney" <npenney@mde.state.md.us>
- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 15:21:46 -0500
- Further supported by the differences in their MSDS chemical properties, and their advertised claims (carburetor cleaners tend to claim lubricating abilities). ...I know this thread has been going on
- /html/shop-talk/2002-02/msg00178.html (8,315 bytes)
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