Cleaning new saw

[Frank Drackman]

You forgot to say "April Fools"

Putting water into the equation doesn't make any sense to me. I use mineral spirits and WD-40 from a refillable spray bottle.

[CW]

Get some diesel fuel. Close enough that you'd never know the difference. WD

40 also works. BTW, kerosene is easily available in most of the civilized word. How hard did you look?

[CW]

No, it isn't. Not a bit of kerosene in it. Works for the intended pupose though.

WD-40, though somewhat expensive, is basically scented

[Mark & Juanita]

Places like Tucson with very little winter have a limited number of sources. As far as I am aware, there are two places one can get kerosene here, one place here wanted to charge $8/gallon for a pail of kerosene last winter. My normal supplier is much more reasonable but they only carry kerosene during the winter months and in limited supply.

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[Lew Hodgett]

Sailaway wrote: > Got my new Delta delivered and need to clean the gunk off the tables. > Delta says use kerosene and specifically says not to use gasoline or > acetone. Finding kerosene is a pain in the butt. Any ideas?

Lamp Oil.

Lew

[Lew Hodgett]

You will play hell trying to find kero in SoCal.

It's an air quality issue.

Lew

[CW]

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[CW]

[Oleg Lego]

The George entity posted thusly:

Since WD40 ingredients are proprietary, and since Stoddard solvent is, like kerosene and Varsol, an aliphatic petroleum distillate, I would say that the point is pretty much moot. WD40 pours like kerosene, burns like kerosene, and in all ways except smell, acts like kerosene, I would consider it to be, most likely, a duck.

[George E. Cawthon]

Then rinse it off with lots of water. Be sure to rinse off all the dissolved paint too.

[Robert Bonomi]

BTDT. GTTS.

*I* called delta tech support and asked them.

They said 'mineral spiritis', or turpentine, or paint thinner, are all acceptable substitutes.

They said they recommend kerosene because: 1) it is nearly universally available 2) it is generally the _lowest_price_ of the alternatives.

[Joe_Stein]

I bought a new grizzly last July. They recommended orange cleaner. Didn't work for me. I used a plastic scraper and WD40. Worked great.

[Mark & Juanita]

Never said diesel won't work. Was only responding to the blanket statement that "kerosene is easily available in most of the civilized world". Despite my occasional protestations that Tucson may not be part of the civilized world, my comment was meant to point out that kerosene (in and of itself as a product sold as "kerosene", not lantern nor camp stove fuel) is not necessarily easily available all over. Also, isn't camp stove fuel really white gasoline? Not necessarily something to be using as a solvent.

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[CW]

I'd be willing to bet that I could take a flight to Tucson, and, upon ariving, I could find kerosene withing 1 hour.

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[Ba r r y]

As a guy who sells this in a bike shop, I suggest kerosene or the $6 / gallon citrus degreaser from the Borg, vs. the $6 1/2 liter from the bike shop.

Even _the bike_ shop dosen't use that in it's own parts washer.

[George E. Cawthon]

Most of us don't have a clue what all these different fractions are or how they differ. But just because something doesn't say it is kerosene, doesn't mean it isn't kerosene or the next best thing. They don't call wick type lanterns kerosene lamps because they burn whale oil. Yuppie lamps still use kerosene, they just put colors and smells into it.

I don't know what camp stove fuel is but it acts just like lighter fluid, excellent for removing gunky labels. It is not what we use to buy as "white gas" which, near as I can tell, is regular gasoline without the coloring and without the lead. Not too cool to burn gasoline with lead in it in a camp stove. Course camp fuel will also work in a gasoline stove. In any case, the camp fuel I've bought does not act exactly like gasoline which is less viscous and evaporates faster.

[Mark & Juanita]

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[sigh] As you could note in my original post on this topic, I indicated that, as best I have been able to find, there are *two* sources for kerosene in Tucson. One of them is obscenely expensive, the second carries it as a seasonal item. I didn't say it was impossible to find, only that it was not as readily available as some alternatives. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ If you're gonna be dumb, you better be tough +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

[AAvK]

YES something to the same effect was going to be my suggestion. Get it cheap as possible. I bought some to degrease some old thrift shop brace augers once, worked like a you-know-what, quite well. They came in an old cardboard can with a metal screw on cap and they were caked with grease and dirt. Once done, rinse and dry.

[AAvK]

I am in socal, and it's everywhere. Cheap too. But it's in any standard little hardware store, in those two tone rectangular cans, like dirty yellow and white colored. I think it costs around $2.99 a quart or so.

[CW]

Figured. Being California though, I thought the unavailability just might be true.