#CLEANING WITH MINERAL SPIRITS HOW TO#
#CLEANING WITH MINERAL SPIRITS MANUAL#

Cool, I didn't fuck up the right carb, I fucked up the wrong carb.Īnybody wanna dark grey Holley 1bbl. First off, I want to clarify that you shouldn’t use mineral spirits every single time you use a paintbrush.

#CLEANING WITH MINERAL SPIRITS HOW TO#

I didn't want to take the risk of making the track condition worse by using something with a gelatinous material. Use Mineral Spirits to dissolve paint, varnish or mediums, then wash off the residue in warm soapy water, and finally rinse in clean water. How to Clean Paintbrushes With Mineral Spirits. The cost of a new quart can of the Mineral Spirits at Walmart was only about 9.00. Then I go and get the carb I found in the trunk, (the one they guy at a carb shop said looked Mopar to him) open it up and look inside, this one looks exactly the same as the pictures in the book, and it has places for more parts to fit. Hi Morgan, No, I did not try to use the Mineral Spirits that appeared to be contaminated for the track cleaning. Beyond just thinning paint, mineral spirits is a versatile and powerful cleaning agent. Mineral spirits is effective for cleaning up paintbrushes used for oil-based painting. It can also be used to clean up oil-based paint spills.

#CLEANING WITH MINERAL SPIRITS MANUAL#

Now on to the stupid part, I opened up the carb kit I bought and the 52 Ford shop manual and as I took it apart, the pictures don't look the same, things inside are a different design, about half the parts don't look they will be used. Mineral spirits are used to thin the consistency of paint for it to be suitable for certain applications. It seemed to get 'anodized' a dark grey color from sitting in there so long, even hitting the outside with a wire brush a little bit did not get it off, I scraped the outside with the tip of a screwdriver and even the scratch was that color.damn I fucked it up using cheap cleaner. I took the carb off and soaked it in degreaser for about a week. Like I always say, god protects the stupid. Your carb might not be there when you come back. Positively do not immerse or apply for long, and I don't recommend any lengthy soak in the vinegar either. Put some in the bowl, let it perk for no more than a couple of minutes, rinse with hot water, repeat til happy. If severely pitted and covered with white, hard crud in the bowl, use the toilet bowl cleaner with 'HCL' somewhere in the warning label-hydrochloric acid. Vinegar can often do all that carb cleaner does. Vinegar vigorously scrubbed with toothbrushes and bottle or gun brushes gets you down to bare clean pot metal, removing even the blackened crud in the bores. It seems both weaker and less smelly than what I used to use, but does really get the crud off. I bought some recently because I found an old 97 tht some moron painted gold with bulletproof epoxy paint or something.

Next, I go to a NAPA dip bucket of carb cleaner (cost about $40), which I hadn't used for years due to the odor prblem. Some time with this and a bsush will get you pretty clean if you don't have anything else, but I use it mainly to save the carb cleaner $$$. I first clean with paint store mineral spirits to get the easy stuff off.

Cleaning with mineral spirits