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Pretty surprised at the price of bicycle specific degreaser.
http://www.edinburghbicycle.com/browse?keywordFilter=degreaser&bGOmainKeyword=Sear ch http://tinyurl.com/9bobrw3 Does anyone use a "more available/cheaper" product than those sold as bike degreasers? |
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On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:52:16 +0100
soup wrote: Pretty surprised at the price of bicycle specific degreaser. http://www.edinburghbicycle.com/browse?keywordFilter=degreaser&bGOmainKeyword=Sear ch http://tinyurl.com/9bobrw3 Does anyone use a "more available/cheaper" product than those sold as bike degreasers? Depends what you're degreasing - diesel and an old paint brush is good for declagging your winter bike, followed up with car shampoo (a quid in ASDA/Wilko/etc.) if a wipe with an oily rag isn't good enough. |
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"soup" wrote in message ... Pretty surprised at the price of bicycle specific degreaser. http://www.edinburghbicycle.com/browse?keywordFilter=degreaser&bGOmainKeyword=Sear ch http://tinyurl.com/9bobrw3 Does anyone use a "more available/cheaper" product than those sold as bike degreasers? To remove all (accessible) traces of oil or grease from most things I use an ammonia(under £2 at Homebase about the only place you can find it except online)/water/Tesco/budget shampoo(40p) mixture applied with an old washing up brush. It wouldn't surprise me if most of the branded products are simply ammonia tarted up in various ways. The ammonia will remove all traces of oiliness. I usually use around a 1:4 solution and the budget shampoo is added to make it a bit more thixotropic. It stinks like hell but may be beneficial if you have a cold I suppose. It's then all washed off with a hose or similar and allowed to thoroughly dry out. I've reassembled one side of bottom bracket shell dry after this treatment as it was showing a tendency to unwind and have had no problems with it since. Though I haven't had to remove it either. michael adams .... |
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