SNIP

What do they put in today's carb/brake cleaners? It smells like
Trichloro-something.

I think its still in there, but I haven't found the gallon
cans of Trichloroethylene in, oh, 10 years, and a bit
more for the Freon TF

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mike
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Brakleen uses perchloroethylene. So does the Gunk brand. It does smell
like trichlor. Dry cleaners used to use the stuff and maybe still do.
I buy the spray cans of the stuff and use sparingly. Most of the time
ethyl alcohol is my favorite solvent when stoddard won't work. Then
acetone. Finally Brakleen.
ERS