08-21-2025, 03:57 AM
Joseph;
I wonder if that was tobacco tar, or kitchen grease on the chassis of your other 48-482? My experience with tobacco tar is that it usually comes off with isopropyl alcohol, if not then acetone will usually cut it. One thing that I have not tried is automotive hand cleaner on a chassis, I usually reach for trisodium phosphate TSP, and it works well on dirt, but not so much on that nasty mix of oil and dirt you get sometimes. Varsol or kerosene also cuts grease, so does turpentine. I think that the late Ron Ramírez would sometimes use hand cleaner with pumice on really grungy chassis, or maybe that was Kirk?
That new set looks like it's just dusty, so a vacuum cleaner and a brush is a good place to start, then something else later is a damp rag doesn't work.
Regards
Arran
I wonder if that was tobacco tar, or kitchen grease on the chassis of your other 48-482? My experience with tobacco tar is that it usually comes off with isopropyl alcohol, if not then acetone will usually cut it. One thing that I have not tried is automotive hand cleaner on a chassis, I usually reach for trisodium phosphate TSP, and it works well on dirt, but not so much on that nasty mix of oil and dirt you get sometimes. Varsol or kerosene also cuts grease, so does turpentine. I think that the late Ron Ramírez would sometimes use hand cleaner with pumice on really grungy chassis, or maybe that was Kirk?
That new set looks like it's just dusty, so a vacuum cleaner and a brush is a good place to start, then something else later is a damp rag doesn't work.
Regards
Arran
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