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Old Feb 2, 2026 | 02:17 PM
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Engine carbon cleaner

I'm looking for products anyone may have found that is of a professional strength for cleaning parts preferably a professional type solvent. The only thing I can remember was a carb solvent from 25 years ago that came in maybe a 25- 30 gallon drum that a part could soak in to dissolve carbon/crud/varnish something a step above spray cans hopefully.
 
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Old Feb 2, 2026 | 04:41 PM
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Trichlorathane is what you use to be able to get, chlorinated solvent, non-flameable. Now it's classified as a carcinogen, restricted from the general public. Over the years I have used Dawn Dish washing liquid for de-greasing. Simple green works too. Now for a solvent B-12 is hard to beat. For cleaning epoxy out of paint guns, Berrymans Carb-Vat does a wonderful job. We had some one leave commercial grade epoxy paint in a Debelvis paint gun over the weekend. My boss asked me if I know anything that would dissolve epoxy could clean it. I don't know but I have an idea of some stuff to try. It took a week to remove remove it all. Was able to remove the air cap after 1 day which gave us hope. Afterwards the gun looked brand new. We started cleaning all of out paint guns in it.
 
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Old Feb 3, 2026 | 07:55 AM
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The chlorinated red can real Brakleen brand stuff is as close to good 'ole "Trike" as you can get these days
I put this chit on everything
But it does little for hard carbon
The molecule is similar and you can clean car carpet and some clothes with this stuff too



 
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Old Feb 3, 2026 | 06:06 PM
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Berrymans B-12 seems to come up often surprisingly its available next day from Amazon.
 
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Old Feb 4, 2026 | 11:08 AM
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When I was working in the machines shop, wire wheels on a due grinder removed carbon from ports and under valve seats. Easier places to reach we used an angle grinder and cup brush.
 
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Old Feb 4, 2026 | 11:40 AM
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When I was working in the machines shop, wire wheels on a due grinder removed carbon from ports and under valve seats. Easier places to reach we used an angle grinder and cup brush.
 
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Old Feb 5, 2026 | 01:44 PM
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Oven cleaner is my go-to for cleaning parts. Use PPE.
 
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Old Feb 5, 2026 | 06:59 PM
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I have been using ozzy juice. Works pretty good for being water based.

I would steer clear of using simple green on metal. It will clean it no doubt but it’s extremely bad for the metal.

several years ago the army decided that simple green was the way to go and they ended up using it it and found that it degraded the metal. We ended up having millions of dollars in parts having to be replaced on all our aircraft because of it.

The same happened with our service weapons.

Maybe once is fine but prolonged use will for sure cause issues.
 
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Thanks for the info on simple green use Moto!
 
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