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On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 23:42:58 -0700, "Richard Knoppow"
wrote: You might even try kerosene or turpentine, both will dissolve certain waxes. We're back to the original topic -- to wrench the thread back to sewing, when I bought the White Family Rotary treadle machine, my spouse used kerosene to clean out its guts. Kerosene was cheap and readily available at the time. But I don't know what kerosene would do to paint. The varnish that old lubricants turn into is a great deal like paint . . . Even soap will wrinkle paint if it's concentrated and you let it set. (But soap won't take paint out of a T-shirt, or even fade it.) -- Joy Beeson joy beeson at comcast dot net http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ The above message is a Usenet post. I don't recall having given anyone permission to use it on a Web site. |
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Joy Beeson wrote:
On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 23:42:58 -0700, "Richard Knoppow" wrote: You might even try kerosene or turpentine, both will dissolve certain waxes. We're back to the original topic -- to wrench the thread back to sewing, when I bought the White Family Rotary treadle machine, my spouse used kerosene to clean out its guts. Kerosene was cheap and readily available at the time. But I don't know what kerosene would do to paint. The varnish that old lubricants turn into is a great deal like paint . . . Kero won't touch most good paint, not even lacquer. It's more or less the same general family as naptha. It's a good choice for removing varnish from old lubrication if you can get a brush or pipe cleaner in there. It's not as aggressive as xylene or mek, both of which will damage paint but get lube varnish off faster. After cleaning up old equipment without disassembling it, you may still have hidden varnish in places. One way of dealing with this is to use a synthetic ester oil.... these oils have good solvent action and are pretty good at dissolving that gunk in hidden corners. Just keep running it through until it stops coming out yellow. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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