[Shop-talk] Spark Plug Cleaner

[Randall]

If I had one, I'd probably use it. No danger to the plug AFAIK, but I worry about a piece of grit getting caught where I can't see it, then later falling out in the cylinder. 

What I do instead is to spray it with carb cleaner, then immediately start heating with a propane torch. The carb cleaner will burn off, but keep heating until there is no trace of yellow in the flame. Obviously use pliers or tongs to hold the plug.  The result won't look new, but it will run.
-- Randall

On 20 October 2018 10:57:06 GMT-06:00, Al Fuller <al at bighealey.org> wrote:
>Anybody still using spark plug cleaners - such as the small air powered
>sand
>blasters of old?
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>I'm looking at plugs for several cars, snow blower, etc. - and
>wondering
>whether the cleaning is known to damage the plugs.  I don't recall that
>being an issue when I used them years ago, nut I do confess that the
>newer
>plugs seem to be made of more exotic materials.
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>Thoughts? 
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>Al Fuller
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>'65 BJ-8
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>'85 Rx-7
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