Re: Washing your air cleaner

["Melissa & Jim" <jadney@vwtype3.org>]

On  7 Nov 97, Kenik Hassel wrote:

> I just use gasoline as the cleaning medium.  I soak the cleaner for
> a couple of hours then agitate it well inside it's gasoline bath.  I
> then reoil.  It seems to me that using gasoline, something the motor
> uses, is safer than something like kerosene.  With the off chance of
> something leaking or offgassing from a still wet air cleaner,
> gasoline won't ever cause any problems.

Fire is one little problem that I could think of.  One little 
backfire could ruin your whole day!  Plus I always try to avoid 
suggesting that people use gasoline as a cleaner, because someone 
will try to do it in their basement and burn everything to the ground 
when the fumes reach the water heater.

Jim
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       Melissa Kepner                                    Jim Adney
                             Laura Kepner-Adney
                         jadney@vwtype3.org      
                             Madison, Wisconsin
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