Getting pine sol residue off.

[Guest]

Well i had the bright idea to try pine sol. That didn't work, at all, so now i have to get all that calcium like crap off my carbs, but after a dip in Berrymans it doesn't seem to want to come off. Heres a pic

Any tips on getting this stuff off? I've tried a brush on the dremel, but that cant get to the inside of the bore. Any ideas are helpful!

[rogerramjet]

I did something similar to mine when I tore in to the greasy slime pit that was my bike when I first got it. Put 'em in the dishwasher if I recall. You have to be careful what you clean them in. Usually a soak in carb dip cleans them as well as they're gonna get. For mine I ended up soda blasting them. You can make a simple siphon gun with a blower nozzle on an air compressor and some 1/4" vinyl tubing, and get the media at harbor freight. Don't shoot the insides though. Once they're clean, I gave them a fresh coat of aluminum colored paint. They still look good, not a lot of miles on them yet, but I've had them off about 100 times since then.

[chuck hahn]

can boil them in plain water and see what happens..at least water wont do any more harm.

[GateKeeper]

just curious, how long were they in the pine sol for ? what type of pine sol was it, when I did mine, they certainly didn't end up looking like that...

[barnbiketom]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI_Bnl6l-OY

the vid is jerky and hard to watch but it's really easy to make one out of a piece of plastic tubing and your blow gun!!

seriously look at this. make a SODA blaster for cheep.. here's a link and they will come out like mint stock!!
I have a glass bead cabinet an that works great too but for the minimum this works GREAT. compressor needed but a small one will work, just takes a litle more time that's all.

[NBraun]

They soaked for 5-6 days. I know its long buy i nrver had the time to put them together. I used the lemon stuff and when they were checkrf earlier they looked fine but the night fore tey got that coating on them. i have no idea what happend

[Steve]

They soaked for 5-6 days. I know its long buy i nrver had the time to put them together. I used the lemon stuff and when they were checkrf earlier they looked fine but the night fore tey got that coating on them. i have no idea what happend

I can try to give you a clue.

First, there are very few of us that have reported any success with PineSol. GateKeeper is one of the few success stories, contact him to find what solution he might have used.

Second, with the highly-recommended Berryman's (or GUNK) Carb Cleaner Dip so widely available (and relatively inexpensive) here in the USA, why bother with an unknown commodity?

Third, you have to know what the cleaning agent is in any solvent that you plan on using. It needs to actually be a solvent for what you intend to remove and it also needs to not react with the base metal of the carb body. Evidently PineSol does not meet both of those criteria.

Then there is also the possibility that a correct product might have been used incorrectly. Did you use it full strength or did you dilute it, which is probably recommended on the label?

A final possibility is simply TIME. It's quite possible that a day (or two) might have done the job, but 5-6 days was simply too long.

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[chuck hahn]

The thing that just caught my eye was LEMON JUICE..citric acid is BAD NEWS on aluminum. try some lemon juice on some scrap and see that it turns it dark grey and leaves that scaly looking stuff.

[GateKeeper]

I can try to give you a clue.

First, there are very few of us that have reported any success with PineSol. GateKeeper is one of the few success stories, contact him to find what solution he might have used.


A final possibility is simply TIME. It's quite possible that a day (or two) might have done the job, but 5-6 days was simply too long.

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Thanks, maybe I got lucky, or my carbs were not so dirty and crusty and it just worked.

All I did was use one bottle of the stuff in a 5 gallon bucket diluted with hot water, placed the carbs in the bucket outside overnight and in the afternoon pulled them out, gave em a scrub with a nylon brush and a baby bottle brush to get in between the nooks and crannies, and rinsed it all with hot water.

Somehow I have a feeling the 5-6 day soak is what might have caused this....

[Steve]

Somehow I have a feeling the 5-6 day soak is what might have caused this....

It will be interesting to see if NBraun diluted his solution, and how much.

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[NBraun]

Well thanks for the replys. I've seemed to have made a stupid mistake. I did dillute the mixture. Two bottles of pine sol and one bottle of water. I have the bodys back in for a longer period of time in hopes that it will work. Otherwise it appear ill have to blast them or get a new rack completely.

[GateKeeper]

Seems the mixture might have been too strong and caused a reaction, my mix was the one bottle (1 litre) to 20 litres of hot water.

as they are soaking once again, get yourself a stiff nylon brush and a baby bottle cleaning brush and got at them every once in a while, see if the deposit will come off

hope it works out for you

any local metal plating places around you, perhaps they can dip them in some of their acid baths, just make sure they know what they are doing and it don't cause more damage for you....

[Road Rash]

I had a somewhat similar outcome recently, although mine wasn't nearly as bad. It was just chalky in most areas but did have build-up in certain spots.
I would say my mixture was 40/60 Pinesol to water, and I gave them just under 2 days to soak, cause that's what I had read. Someone recommended going over them with a toothbrush and some PB Blaster, and that seemed to help get rid of the chalkiness and deposits.
I would say his 5-6 day soak was much to long. 24 to 48 hours is probably all that's needed. I know it was also recommended to rinse in water and immediately blow out with compressed air.

[NBraun]

Well the plan for now is to soak them in vinegar to stop the process, and then just media blast the bodys. Well see how that works.

[tkent02]

Vinegar is acidic, is that really what you want?