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Default Parts washer solvent options (and then disposal of used solvent)

On Thursday, March 15, 2018 at 6:43:54 PM UTC-4, David Lesher wrote:
rangerssuck writes:


Don't know whether it's still true, but back then, they told me that Safety=
Kleen was made from out of date jet fuel. That gave it a certain "coolness=
" factor.


Jet A is ultra-pure Kerosene, nothing more.

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Not exactly, there are additives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_fuel

And it does degrade over time: http://www.intertek.com/petroleum/te...e-degradation/

Anyhow, this was something told to me by The Safety Kleen sales guy who may have been full of it.