I bought a bottle of CIF oven degreaser, best available, removes burned in fat etc etc, and it was covered in warnings and safety instructions, respirator, mask, gloves, eye cover blah blah.….Yes, I know Sodium Hydroxide is Caustic Soda but in the oven cleaner products it's for use in the domestic arena so will be weaker but if left to work it's still effective. For general workshop cleaning I use petrol and or thinners as they are effective, readily available and cheap. For heavier soiling, I use petrol first then progress to thinners after that, especially for burnt on oil I go to oven cleaner.
This stuff works a treat….use gloved.I bought a bottle of CIF oven degreaser, best available, removes burned in fat etc etc, and it was covered in warnings and safety instructions, respirator, mask, gloves, eye cover blah blah.….
The stuff was useless, totally, waste of money and time. Rubbed all over a burnt baking tray it was left overnight to soak, and in the morning I wiped it with a kitchen towel. Nothing came off, not even discolouration of the towel.
Worthless stuff, weakened and watered down so much to protect the idiots in society that you could probably drink it and suffer no side effects.
Heat is the best ingredient for degreasing, even the most basic tfr`s work work well if you can get the job hot. Got an electric chip frier filled with tfr for small parts, works a treat.
Bob
Small parts - I splash a bit of petrol in a old washing up and clean them down with old paint brush.
In all these years - I have never owned a parts washer. It been all - engine degreaser - kettles of hot water - pressure washer.
Sounds like hard work Peter, turned to parts washers since the hike in leccy prices. The Bupi I have has a gurt pump/spraybar and a few 3kw immersion heaters in it with nearly a two hour heat up time, that uses an ali safe caustic powder which is really cheap, also ok to flush down the drain. Way too expensive to run unless you stack up a load of gear and are having a cleaning day.
Bob