What's a good degreaser?

Joe W. · Aug 4, 2015

I am getting ready to paint a running gear. What is a good degreaser I can use on the gear in my yard without the degreaser killing my grass? I've got some PB blaster on it and some acetone/automatic transmission fluid that I used to loosen the old nuts and bolts.

showcrop · Aug 4, 2015

Anything with potassium Hydroxide. There are forty eleven of them out there, and many have cute names and colors but they all work pretty much the same, and everybody has their favorite.

Stephen Newell · Aug 4, 2015

I've had pretty good luck using purple power and a power washer. On the real stubborn spots I used oven cleaner.

Dick L · Aug 5, 2015

I would pull it out of the grass into the drive and use gas and a stiff brush. Put something down to catch the drips if don't have a gravel drive. Scraping it first with a putty knife means it takes less scrubbing. Of course if you want to give it a shower bath in something without bending down to scrape and scrub, gas would not be a good idea. I use gas in a coffee can when cleaning something like that not a pail of it. Then again I have been told that most likely all of my kids would have been conceived standing in a hammock.

(For the head scratchers that means I have been known to do most things the hard way.)

^D

David G · Aug 12, 2015

Lacquer thinner

JoeM(GA) · Aug 13, 2015

Dollar store oven cleaner

souNdguy · Aug 17, 2015

strong base's ( caustic ) make good degreasers.

oven cleaner.. etc.

I like purple power myself, as since you mix it up.. it's cheaper than spray bombs of oven cleaner..

if you water down the lawn where the celaner drips and runs off.. it won't kill it.

koda · Sep 3, 2015

Try diesel and Dawn dish detergent(about 1/2 cup detergent to 1 gallon diesel mixed together), let it set then hose it off. Not good for your lawn. Do not use gas.

showcrop · Sep 6, 2015

(quoted from post at 18:42:06 09/03/15) Try diesel and Dawn dish detergent(about 1/2 cup detergent to 1 gallon diesel mixed together), let it set then hose it off. Not good for your lawn. Do not use gas.

Those two are just going to be too busy attacking each other to do any degreasing, LOL. Either one is going to do much better on its own. Just basic chemistry.

770puller · Sep 7, 2015

Zep-big Orange works perfect

tractorguy2 · Sep 9, 2015

pressure washer and hot water. I use to have a heater in the shop just for that purpose.Natural gas got to high and I removed the water heater.

Married2Allis · Sep 10, 2015

If you can afford it, nothing can beat a hot water pressure washer or steamer. And you can put a cheap $5 tarp under it to catch the all of the crud.

Otherwise nothing wrong with using diesel fuel or gasoline as a solvent. Use the solvent with wire a brush but you won't get it anywhere near as clean as with hot water and you'll use gallons of fuel that will make a huge mess on the ground.

Hot water will take minutes, solvent will take hours or days.

RalphWD45 · Sep 10, 2015

Napa sells some stuff that I have in the shop, that works great, I am not going out to look at it for you, but it is in purple gallon jugs and mixes with water.

w1ebb · Sep 10, 2015

I use cheap charcoal lighter fluid to clean oil and grease off most everything. To clean your hands really good from grease, oil, paint, etc, squirt some into a terry cloth rag and rub it on your greasy hands. It works great, is cheap, and does not stink like gas or diesal. Once you have cleaned your hands, finish washing with a little dawn and warm water. You're clean and no bad smell. But do be careful around any flame or heat source!

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