Cleaning exhaust from painted surfaces

[ZRX61]

I don't work for them, but I got the following from the Simple Green Website:

Extreme Simple Green®
Aircraft & Precision Cleaner

Extreme Simple Green®, Simple Green’s new aircraft and precision cleaning product, cuts through tough, built up grease, oil, dirt, pollution, insect residue and impact soils. We’ve found no other aircraft-approved product on the market that matches Extreme Simple Green’s cleaning performance. Yet, it causes no harm to aircraft structural metals, plastics, paints, or coatings.

I knew there was a version for aircraft etc, just never bothered to look it up

[C45 driver]

Hey Fellas:

I had to ask Rick Sharpe's crew what the heck they were using on the Spad - -it looked like it was trailered in, it was so clean (but I SAW it land).

Goop hand cleaner

Be sure to get the stuff without the grit/pumice in it lest you make your paint/aluminum look weathered.

I found that 3 steps are the best method for me: 1 rag for applying the Goop and wiping most of it off; a 2nd rag to wipe off most of what remains; and a 3rd damp rag to get what remains off the surface. I think what remains for the 3rd rag is the stuff that softens your skin (lanolin?), and if you don't wipe it off, it does go away.

The best thing is that this stuff cleans your rags too -- when they come out of the washing machine, they look new!

Carry on!
Mark

[bluehawk15]

DX330 seems to work well. It's an oil and grease remover used before painting.

[steve dickey]

Hey Fellas:

I had to ask Rick Sharpe's crew what the heck they were using on the Spad - -it looked like it was trailered in, it was so clean (but I SAW it land).

Goop hand cleaner

Be sure to get the stuff without the grit/pumice in it lest you make your paint/aluminum look weathered.

I found that 3 steps are the best method for me: 1 rag for applying the Goop and wiping most of it off; a 2nd rag to wipe off most of what remains; and a 3rd damp rag to get what remains off the surface. I think what remains for the 3rd rag is the stuff that softens your skin (lanolin?), and if you don't wipe it off, it does go away.

The best thing is that this stuff cleans your rags too -- when they come out of the washing machine, they look new!

Carry on!
Mark

Hi Mark and welcome to WIX It would appear that "Taylor Maid" has gained some nose art


Fredricksburg Dec 7th 08

[Obergrafeter]

Uh Oh, Marks here...........entirely too many Central Texans on this site. Soon other people will think we are discriminating against them as we have all the neat toys! (And secret bunkers to keep them in)

[JetStarMech]

One very cheap method is something found in most maintenence shops/hangers.
I've used this for many years, clean stoddard solvent, used in most parts washing tanks.
The key is it must be clean, right out of the 5 gal. container etc.
Applied with clean rags soaked then wring them out not to make
too much of a mess.
And lots of elbow grease, going over the area several times followed
up with clean dry rags (like old cotton t-shirts), then re-apply wax etc.

[pmahaffey]

Simple green for aircraft is amazing stuff. We use it to clean the exhaust stains off of the polished nacelles of the B-25. The moment you spray that stuff on, the exhaust stains just start to melt off of the metal.
The second secret is to use microfiber towels to clean it up.

Patrick Mahaffey
B-25 "Pacific Prowler"
B-17 "Chuckie"