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Default How to wash out/remove dried out soluble coolant

On 1/22/2014 2:08 AM, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

I bought a can of Drano Crystals at Lowe's recently. It was the only
place I could find it around here.


If you're going to use it for something other than drain cleaning, do a
test first. I once tried to use Drano as a paint remover, cause I had
used lye to do it and I thought Drano was just lye. It was a disaster -
there was some other ingredient in the Drano that contaminated the work.

Here's where I get lye:
http://www.essentialdepot.com/servle...ade/Categories

Bob