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01-20-2021, 12:22 PM | #21 |
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Re: How To Remove Cosmoline
LOL good one GB !
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01-21-2021, 04:45 PM | #22 |
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Re: How To Remove Cosmoline
It would make a great name for a convenience store.
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01-22-2021, 06:04 PM | #23 |
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Re: How To Remove Cosmoline
jet fuel and brass brush
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01-23-2021, 09:02 AM | #24 |
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Re: How To Remove Cosmoline
I have an old 45 (WL) that was made in 1948 so I scoured this country and a few others for parts over the years for that restoration. Front cylinders seemed to have survived many years in cosmoline but the rear cylinders, not so much. It seems that large crates of rear cylinders were compromised by moisture and few survived. New cylinders are available now but for many years the rears were hard to find. I've only seen a few photos of a single WLA in a crate. I think it was the last survivor of the WWII era and the fellow was leaving it that way just for posterity and collector value. He'd had insane offers to sell the thing but I don't know what the status is on it now.
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01-23-2021, 10:06 AM | #25 |
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Re: How To Remove Cosmoline
Tom you have had a lot of answers to your question but I have the easiest solution to your question. I would gladly come & remove your cosmoline complete with block. Problem solved.
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01-23-2021, 02:26 PM | #26 |
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I finally managed to find a NOS sector shaft and the cosmoline has really stuck and hardened on over the last number of decades. This is the exact info I needed, Gregger
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01-27-2021, 08:31 AM | #27 |
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Re: How To Remove Cosmoline
My 2-cents worth: I had a NOS crank pulley packed in cosmoline and wrapped in some kind of paper. Hard as a rock. I put it in an old crock-pot with a mixture of 50% purple power from walmart and water. Put it on high temp, and dropped it in. 20 min. later I fished it out and it was as clean as a hounds tooth.
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01-27-2021, 09:52 AM | #28 |
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Re: How To Remove Cosmoline
Take it to a machine shop, spent $50 have them bake it.
We have a heated parts washer cabinet at our shop that works well, but not as good as baking it would. Watched a local Model A guy clean a rearend housing covered in gooey oil. he covered it in diesel and lit it on fire, seemed to work well |
01-27-2021, 06:53 PM | #29 | |
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Quote:
GB would likely do it that way, but with drain oil. Bruce
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01-28-2021, 11:32 AM | #30 |
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Waste not, wan't not.....
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