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Re: Oven Cleaner

To: LSAPEX@aol.com
Subject: Re: Oven Cleaner
From: "W. R. Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 15:13:47 -0400 (EDT)
On Mon, 16 Sep 1996 LSAPEX@aol.com wrote:

> << But I have yet to find anything that degreases engines better than oven 
>  cleaner.  Haven't tried it on aluminum heads though.  Anyone got anything 
>  better? >>
> 
> Do you "pre-heat"the engine before useing?
> Does it hose off with water?
> 
> Les.
> Team APEX
> 
> 

Guys, guys, please!  Many oven cleaners are NaOH.  Heaven only knows what 
the others are.  NaOH not only cleans baked on grease, but it eats 
aluminum and removes paint.  Do you really want to use this to clean an 
engine??

   Ray Gibbons  Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
                Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
                gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu  (802) 656-8910


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