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[sassanach]

approx £5 a gallon, takes the oil straight out of your skin.has a list of downsides a mile long but happens to be the ultimate  degreaser bar none.

[Kevin Wood]

I did a week of work experience at Ealing studios when I was at school, and about 15 IIRC. At some point I had to paint a door (long story) but the only thing I could find with which to clean the paintbrush was trike, and the only place I could find to clean it was the PCB darkroom, which was a bit confined.

Needless to say it made me wonder why I spent my Saturday evenings pi$$ing around with 2 litre bottles of cheap cider.

 

Kevin

[Marks DTM Calib]

approx £5 a gallon, takes the oil straight out of your skin.has a list of downsides a mile long but happens to be the ultimate  degreaser bar none.

Where can I obtain such stuff these days then!

[sassanach]

well you could take a trek to trowbridge and pick some up.i buy it 45 gallons at a time as i happen to have a trike/trich? tank.however there are still a lot of places still using it in the sheet metal industry(whats left of it anyway)so im sure you could find some closer to home.

[MartinP]

There are still trike substitutes available, we use it for degreasing aerospace components

[sassanach]

they keep trying to foist that stuff on us,costs twice as much to buy and uses twice the heat to boil it and still isnt as good.

[MartinP]

they keep trying to foist that stuff on us,costs twice as much to buy and uses twice the heat to boil it and still isnt as good.

 

I used to use proper trike, boiling it in a galv bucket and dipping parts in.

The substitute stuff is used in a customers supplied process. the management were jumping up and down when someone said "CARSENOGENIC"