On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 11:33:43 -0700, Winston
wrote:

Pete C. wrote:

anorton wrote:

wrote in message
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'Varnish Makers and Painter's' naptha is the only way
I've found for removing baked-on grease from metal surfaces:
http://paint-and-supplies.hardwarest...er-618030.aspx

It's disappeared from the shelves at all the hardware stores in
my area. Some now carry a 'substitute' product in gallon cans,
but I don't want to spend over 20 bucks and then have to drive
it to Hazmat Disposal if it works as well as do most
'substitutes'.

What's a practical alternative? Gasoline?

Thanks!

--Winston

Lighter fluid is (or at least used to be) mainly naptha. Gasoline has
longer chain molecules than naptha, but you could try it.

Camp stove / lantern fuel might be a viable substitute that would be
better than highway gasoline.

I agree. It's unobtainium here in SF Bay Area.

Oh, I forgot. You live in -no VOC- city, don't you?

When I had my smog license in CA, the NOX standards were a lower
number than was obtainable from ambient air on the coast with an
offshore breeze on a GOOD day. Inland, the shrubs doubled that, even
without any vehicular traffic.

Don't you love the CARB and CAL-EPA?

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