Service your plows people!!!

[NickT]

One thing I do is loosen the bolts on the trip springs and spray fluid film in the pivots,I drop the blade so its flat on the floor and work it back and forth a few times, need to get that first trip out of the way!!!

[basher]

Originally Posted by theholycow

I've never encountered or heard of brake cleaner leaving a residue, and in fact I've heard specifically the opposite in comparison to carburetor cleaner (which apparently leaves a slight lubricating oil residue).


Try TIG welding on something cleaned with brakeclean. You can see the residue burning off in the weld. Stopped using it on aluminum particularly as it really seems to penetrate

Do you mean straight ether, or the more common engine starting fluid you can buy these days which is a mixture of ether with other stuff?

Why I suggested the cheapest, you want it without the "lubricants, etc. you do have to wipe it after it dries, while it eats all the oils and stuff if will leave a powdery residue it wipes right off

[theholycow]

Be very careful welding stuff that may have un-evaporated brake cleaner on it. It gives off concentrated poisonous phosgene gas.
http://www.brewracingframes.com/id75.htm

Where do you get the cheap straight ether? A parts store?

[basher]

Originally Posted by theholycow

Be very careful welding stuff that may have un-evaporated brake cleaner on it. It gives off concentrated poisonous phosgene gas.
http://www.brewracingframes.com/id75.htm

Where do you get the cheap straight ether? A parts store?

local NAPA

[PR Fect]

THC, thanks for the link. I did not know this. I will be sending this link to my kid and other wrenches I know. Hell, I'm eating lunch right now, and then headed to the shop to weld on my plow. I was planning on de-greesing the area of the hinge pin with parts cleaner before I started the repair! I do not believe in coincidence's. I will not be using any brake clean. Thanks again!