Wheel cleaning

[Tail End Charlie]

Hot soapy water and a bristle brush (like the ones for cleaning steps, in the days when people did that). Finish off with baby wipes.

 

[Globalti]

Hot water with dishwash, floor cleaner or car shampoo, wipe around the braking surface then pull the cloth behind the brake blocks to remove dried-on aluminium/rubber residue and grit. A fluffy cloth such as a towel or microfibre cloth is best as it gets into the clearance grooves.

 

[screenman]

TFR and a jet washer here.

 

[stalagmike]

TFR and a jet washer here.

Traffic Film Remover. Sounds like the right kind of stuff.

 

[winjim]

Isopropyl Alcohol, I think, which would be IA not IPA but logic isn't

iso-Propyl alcohol
Isopropanol
2-Propanol
Propan-2-ol
IPA

In no way is it or should it be just "IA".

 

[mjr]

iso-Propyl alcohol
Isopropanol
2-Propanol
Propan-2-ol
IPA

In no way is it or should it be just "IA".

Except that the words of the first one start with IA and none start IPA. You're just trying to get people to waste beer.

 

[pplpilot]

Soak overnight in a bath of goats milk then dab dry with only the finest Egyptian cotton towel then apply a very thin film of nappy rash creme.

 

[winjim]

Except that the words of the first one start with IA and none start IPA. You're just trying to get people to waste beer.

No, the words start with PA. The prefix starts with I.

 

[mjr]

No, the words start with PA. The prefix starts with I.

YYSW

 

[winjim]

YYSW

Well you brought it up.

 

[Globalti]

If you think that's bad should see some of the chemicals we have at our place. One that comes to mind is PTBCHA or para tertiary butyl cyclo hexyl acetate.

 

[winjim]

If you think that's bad should see some of the chemicals we have at our place. One that comes to mind is PTBCHA or para tertiary butyl cyclo hexyl acetate.

The thing is that there are many illogicalities in the trivial naming of organic compounds (hence the adoption of the IUPAC nomenclature system), but, Greek derivation of propyl aside, the shortening of IPA is not one of them.