OldShooter
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A couple of decades ago when I was racing sports cars and had a detached garage, my reliable (but dangerous) recipe for oil spill clean up was to dump some oil-dry, add a pint or more of avgas, and push the soupy mess around with a broom. It worked like a champion and I never did burn the place down.
Fast forward to now: I have an attached garage and maybe a little more caution. I found this stuff:https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0046O5YMA, which seems to be more or less the same concept. Some kind of white powder substitutes for the oil-dry and some kind of low-volatility (but unidentified) "distallate" solvent substitutes for the very volatile avgas. The distallate evaporates slowly, like overnight, but leaves no residue. But the product is $50/gallon! No pleasure to BTD on that
So -- I would like to mix up a cheaper brew. Oil-dry again and some kind of less-dangerous solvent that still evaporates completely.
Eoes anyone with a chemistry background have any suggestions for a safer but inexpensive solvent?
Fast forward to now: I have an attached garage and maybe a little more caution. I found this stuff:https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0046O5YMA, which seems to be more or less the same concept. Some kind of white powder substitutes for the oil-dry and some kind of low-volatility (but unidentified) "distallate" solvent substitutes for the very volatile avgas. The distallate evaporates slowly, like overnight, but leaves no residue. But the product is $50/gallon! No pleasure to BTD on that
So -- I would like to mix up a cheaper brew. Oil-dry again and some kind of less-dangerous solvent that still evaporates completely.
Eoes anyone with a chemistry background have any suggestions for a safer but inexpensive solvent?