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Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: Entwood on 04 October 2007, 20:33:01
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SWMBO went shopping today (I think she goes everyday !!) and "I remembered what you mentioned last night so I got you this" ......
I had said I needed to get some carb cleaner to do the breathers/cam cover gaskets next week ... she recalled me changing the front discs/pads last weekend ... so she has bought me 3 large cans of brake/clutch cleaner !!
I said .. through gritted teeth ... "thankyou dear but I'll have to take these back and exchange them" .. to which she replied .. "why... if it cleans grease off brake disc it'll clean cr*p off the engine"...
Now I'm unable at this point to refute that logic .... is there a major difference between carb cleaner and brake cleaner ?? Both are degreasers, both leave no residue ... what am I missing here .. ??
Help me guys .. I'm about to lose an engineering argument to SWMBO ... I'll never hear the end of it !! :-/ :-/
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Yes you can use brake cleaner, they are both thyhetrachrloride based. The carb cleaner is more effective though for removing the tar diposits.
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Carb cleaner can and does melt rubber whilst brake and clutch cleaner is slightly less 'dissolving' as long as its a proprietry make, apparently, so a little more safe on the likes of brake and clutch slave cylinder rubbers......
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Thanks to both .. so I can reclaim the moral high ground as carb cleaner is "stronger and more effective" than brake cleaner for the purpose of breather cleaning ... :)
I shall compare this to trying to use handcleaner instead of washing powder to do the laundry, she should be able to understand such a comparison, being a woman it is her area of expertise .. .. :)
If she reads this ...... I'm DEAD ... :)
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The soap analogy works.....
Compare simple soap/Dove to swarfega with granuals/Scouring powder and you will be about there.... Both do clean, one is better at grease and stuff than the other and the other is better for your so so smooth skin...!! ;D ;D