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Hi Garage Warrior... my responses in line: For the performance test - the results were based on cleaning of fresh mineral oil and lithium grease. Could it be that performance would be much different when cleaning old oil such as found on engine underbelly (oxidized/broken down hydrocarbon...

Thanks hughfree, glad the research was helpful...

Hi Garage Warrior- I commissioned/designed this report for some industrial work I had been doing, and wanted to respond by point: This report is a joke. Not really. I hope to show you in the below it isn't. They supposedly number one rated product - CRC HydroForce is not a real product...

Hi Lynn- You're looking for the 14416 CRC Hydroforce Industrial Strength. They don't make it easy... have had bottle, label changes, and their site is not the easiest to navigate at times. It's available on Amazon under that PN.

Thanks NUTTSGT! Yes, CRC fared pretty well, and in some cases, not so well. I think it speaks to the huge range of degreasers they have... lot of different formulations and applications. I think some of the older formulas are perhaps showing some of their limitations. If you look at their...

Funny you say that, DCarr... I have a separate round of parts washer testing lined up next... I thought that heated parts washing solvents might be designed for not breaking down in heat, easy distillation/rerefining by the waste liquid collector (ie Safety-Kleen), etc, etc So, I was thinking...

I had a similar experience with PP on magnesium starter cover on an old McCulloch saw I was restoring... it had already been corroded, so there was a lot of surface area. Soaked in PP overnight, had pretty heavy surface oxidation you could scrape off with your fingernail. I washed and prepped...

Sounds like an interesting one to add to the testing... especially in smaller machine shops, you'll see whatever works and is cheap/plentiful. I was surprised to see how brake cleaners rated (chlorinated and non), but then you've got to consider that they are made for brakes... and not HD...

Thanks Thruxton... I thought gearheads outside the industrial/machine shop realm would like to finally have some independent testing on degreasers!

Could definitely add... There was one other degreaser (Swish AT30) used as an aircraft wash that gets a lot of talk for its safety on painted surfaces while being still doing a good job degreasing. Porsche guys swear by it because it's safe for magnesium parts (ie fan). I had ordered it two...

A lot of what they still use in parts washers (ie safety kleen) is a version of Stoddard Solvent with some modifiers and special sauce... so definitely in the kerosene ballpark. Never heard of the turbo wash red... you get it locally? Might be interesting add for the 2014 ratings

Thanks... I was surprised by some of the results, from a personal standpoint. Had never heard of the winning degreaser before, but it's solid stuff. Tried it out on a teardown of a classic chainsaw I was restoring, and it did a great job on that caked, greasy, 50 year-old sludge.

All- I wanted to share this... had been doing some research on the industrial side to perform independent ASTM performance testing on 15 leading degreasers... from Simple Green Industrial all the way up to Chlorinated CRC HD you can't buy in all states. Separate ratings for oil and grease...

I'll just leave this here... independent ASTM testing of the top 15 degreasers, seperate ratings for grease and oil, also addresses safety concerns. From Oct 23, so it's new...

Congrats on the progress cyamaha... stay on it. You'll get there. My post hole digging nightmare was for getting a perc test for septic... had to do 8 holes, exactly 8" wide by 36" deep... so that the inspector could fill with water and measure percolation rates, etc. No larger, no smaller...