Degreaser

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Dogtrousers

Kilometre nibbler
When I started working on bikes as a lad in my dad's garage the 70s I used Trike (trichloroethylene). My dad had a number of metal gallon containers labelled with marker pen.

It was excellent at dissolving away grease and crud. So what if it's carcinogenic? It's political correctness gone mad.
 
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roley poley

Veteran
Location
leeds
yes white spirit ..allow to settle after a scrubby chain clean...pour the clear fluid off the top and use again... the sludge left behind can be disposed of in a mucky rag ...done this for years...a litre lasts a long long time
 

Paulus

Started young, and still going.
Location
Barnet,
yes white spirit ..allow to settle after a scrubby chain clean...pour the clear fluid off the top and use again... the sludge left behind can be disposed of in a mucky rag ...done this for years...a litre lasts a long long time

That's exactly what I have been doing for decades. A big bottle lasts for years.
 

EltonFrog

Legendary Member
I recently bought some of that Screwfix degreaser as a result of reading above posts. It truly is excellent stuff, and so much cheaper than bike branded products.
 

presta

Guru
That's exactly what I have been doing for decades. A big bottle lasts for years.

I do the same with cleaning paint brushes too: multiple rinses with recycled spirits, then a final rinse in new stuff to get the recycled out. (I don't use oily spirit for cleaning brushes though, they're separate recycling pots.)
 
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