05-12-2011, 09:36 AM
My general purpose solvent of choice is kerosene. As I have oil-fired central heating it's readily available and is better than white spirit for cleaning paint brushes.
It can be used for making wax polish and isn't too inflammable. It needs some sort of wick to burn and if you drop a fag-end into a dish of it it'll produce a bit of smoke and then go out.
Besides that, oxygenating cleaning crystals are good. 'Vanish Oxy-Action' is the famous, and expensive, one but I use the stuff from PoundLand. I used this to clean a filthy computer keyboard a few months ago. I dropped the key-tops into a bowl of it and before I had chance to stir them around, as I'd intended to, all the dirt had lifted off and the water looked like something out of a shell-hole.
- Joe
It can be used for making wax polish and isn't too inflammable. It needs some sort of wick to burn and if you drop a fag-end into a dish of it it'll produce a bit of smoke and then go out.
Besides that, oxygenating cleaning crystals are good. 'Vanish Oxy-Action' is the famous, and expensive, one but I use the stuff from PoundLand. I used this to clean a filthy computer keyboard a few months ago. I dropped the key-tops into a bowl of it and before I had chance to stir them around, as I'd intended to, all the dirt had lifted off and the water looked like something out of a shell-hole.
- Joe
