20V Intercooler strapping

Bernie Benz b.benz at charter.net
Wed Jan 10 17:56:36 EST 2007


Gasoline is a little too harsh for my bare hands! Mineral spirits has the
same solvent capabilities, is less volatile, and used to be cheaper, no
more. I shy away from anything with a tree hugging name like SG.

Bernie 

> From: "Brandon Rogers" <brogers at terrix.com>
> Organization: Terrix Financial Corporation
> Reply-To: brogers at terrix.com
> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:12:16 -0700
> To: "'Taka Mizutani'" <t44tqtro at gmail.com>, "'200q20V mailing list'"
> <200q20v at audifans.com>
> Subject: RE: 20V Intercooler strapping
> 
> FWIW - I used gas to clean out an IC before I had it modded (welding) -
> worked great.
> 
> Brandon
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 200q20v-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:200q20v-bounces at audifans.com]
> On Behalf Of Taka Mizutani
> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 9:28 AM
> To: 200q20V mailing list
> Subject: Re: 20V Intercooler strapping
> 
> 
> Then explain why Simple Green used full-strength corroded the aluminum
> intake manifold, even when cold and rinsed with plenty of cold water?
> 
> The citrus cleaners don't do this- I'd recommend using a citrus-based
> degreaser rather than Simple Green. You need to use a strong one,
> though- the stuff formulated to degrease bike chains and stuff like that
> works great. The stuff you see in Home Depot in the spray bottle called
> "citrus degreaser" is way too weak.
> 
> Taka
> 
> 
> On 1/10/07, Bernie Benz <b.benz at charter.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Another old Audi wives¹ tail.
>> 
>>> From: "Brandon Rogers" <brogers at terrix.com>
>>> Organization: Terrix Financial Corporation
>>> Reply-To: brogers at terrix.com
>>> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:11:01 -0700
>>> To: <brett at cloud9.net>, "'Eric Huppert'" <dragracer at netstep.net>
>>> Cc: quattro at audifans.com, '200q20v' <200q20v at audifans.com>
>>> Subject: RE: 20V Intercooler strapping
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Don't use simple green inside or out- it's not safe for aluminum.
>>>> 
>>>> Brett
>>> 
>>> I was not aware of this.  Thanks for the info.  Does it say so on
>>> the bottle?
>>> 
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