oven cleaner

I've heard of some folks who use oven cleaner for degunking their saw blades. Most of those oven cleaners are hazardous to breathe, so I won't use them. Other, more friendly products are available for your purposes. I use WD40, turpentine, paint thinner, alcohol or acetone for cleanups depending on the job.

Leif

TSP works well too and is quite inexpensive.

What??? No soaking in the sacred LDD??? Heresy!!!

Jim

Leif Thorvalds> I've heard of some folks who use oven cleaner for degunking their saw

Take a look at the active ingredient. TSP PF (Phosphate free) is just another surfactant, albeit low sudsing type.

Probably the "safest" of the alternatives mentioned. Acetone indeed!

Let me get this straight... you use turpentine, paint thinner, alcohol, and acetone, but you won't use oven cleaner because it's hazardous to breathe??

Am I the only one who sees something illogical here?

-- Regards, Doug Miller (alphageek-at-milmac-dot-com)

George wrote: Take a look at the active ingredient. TSP PF (Phosphate free (clip) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ George, you've got my idle mind rushing ahead, and tripping over itself. I'm wondering how trisodium phosphate can be "phosphate free."

I was wondering that too, but was too polite to ask. Until, of course, Leo asked first. ARM

Note it says TSP, which, in the non-Einsteinian universe used to mean Trisodium Phosphate, but now merely means TSP (PF) to Savogran.

Wonder how much better this can really be, because they say to rinse with clear if spraying on plants, when the old stuff was high-quality fertilizer!

I only know a few things about EZ Off Oven Cleaner.

- It'll eat your hands so wear rubber gloves.

- It'll ruin the shiny finish on any aluminum.

- It stinks like heck & will put a cramp inyour lungs if inhaled so use in a well ventilated area.

- It removes the paint from plastic models like downtown, only better.

- It cleans the insides of ovens really well.

Joe and Daphne Bazer wrote:

TSP is such good fertilizer that it's banned here because it causes algae blooms in our local waters. I'd have to question just how "safe" TSP is then.

Put it on your lawn instead of in the sewer!

Only if you intend to turn the item! *G*

As a matter of fact, yes, indeed. It is not like I slosh the stuff all over the item to be cleaned! Put some on a paper towel, and use with some ventilation.

Been using it for years, years and years and years and years and I doens't bother me-memememememe, that Ihave noticed! *G*

Most are Caustic Soda Based (Sodium Hydroxide) and as such, this will attach aluminium. Turpentine or WD40 or CRC or the like is as good as you get, andit leaves an oily film that will protect. Oven cleaner will degrease and leave it suseptable t o rust