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SHENRIC
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Oct 19, 2007, 11:52 AM
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After Repair Clean Ups
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I've been working on a Shelby Cobra for sometime but after some of the bigger jobs my garage is a disaster and since I'm not much of a cleaner I'm not sure what to use around the garage that won't damage anything. My wife keeps insisting I use some of her multipurpose cleaners/degreasers (Simple Green and/or Purple something I think) but since she doesn't know much about cars I wanted to check in here. Do you all use these types of products to clean up your garages or anywhere around/on your cars? If so where do you use them and how? I'd like to get this chore over with soon since I've put it off for so long and it's just getting worse, so any advice would be great.
I'll post pictures of my progress with the Shelby once I clean my garage!
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Tom Greenleaf
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Oct 19, 2007, 2:53 PM
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Re: After Repair Clean Ups
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Nice question! I'm guessing the floor is concrete as most are. If you have caked grease, dirt, oils scrape this clean with like an edger with straight edge for your yard. A metal dust pan works well too. If still oily or anti-freeze use el cheapo cat litter. Brake fluid needs to be absorbed up with cat litter too. Don't even step in that or drive over braked fluid as it eats some things like paint!
When all that can be scraped and swept up is done and you still want better there are options I use. I can hose out my shop and can get it dang clean with white wall tire cleaner like exactly Westley's Bleche-wite and it strips it pretty clean but you have to have a place for that runoff water to go so that may not work for you.
I use ton's of brand name Bounty paper towels, brake cleaner, carb cleaner etc and can make cement look like nothing was ever spilled on it. Don't even think of washing rags or cloths if you use that. You DON'T want that in your laundy - trust me. This is no place to go green. The mess is icky and so are the products to clean it up. Throw them out or burn them in a real safe spot if you can. Don't store oily rags or paper towels. If you must get a fire proof container or at least cover them in baking soda, sand anything. This is NOT earth friendly stuff but rather a hazmat. Remember that oily rags can spontaneously combust and shops are required to have fireproof places for them.
Cement is very forgining and will get better with just time. Best (IMO) not to paint cement anywhere a car is to be worked on or parked.
They sell degreasers for this if you want but the products I just mentioned work well for me.
Happy cleaning!
T
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