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Date:         Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:25:25 -0700
Reply-To:     Evan Mac Donald <macdonald1987@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         Evan Mac Donald <macdonald1987@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: "Brake Parts Cleaner" question (searched archives)
In-Reply-To:  <20060912193223.87668.qmail@web54704.mail.yahoo.com>
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The "tried and true" method for removing oily deposits from brake shoes involves - TADA - "FIRE". That's right, the most dangerous tool in our box.

>>>>>WARNING!!<<<< This requires care, and keeping the kids and dogs away!

Take the shoes and wash-n-soak them in a shallow pan of alcohol. Alcohol will not only help remove the unwanted oily substance, but is the "flambeau" part in this recipe. After swishing the shoes around a bit, take them out, set them on the concrete, and put a match to them. They will not burn hot enough or long enough to damage the linings, but the oily stuff should be gone by the time the alcohol finishes burning off.

neil <goofymuso@YAHOO.CA> wrote: Hi all.

I had an incredibly stuck drum, and used "Liquid Wrench" to help get it off. Some of the LW got onto shoe linings.

I used "Brake Parts Cleaner" to clean the shoes.

Will the BPC effectivly clean the LW off the shoe linings? Or does LW soak into lining rendering shoes useless?

Cheers,

Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia.

http://web.mac.com/tubaneil

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