IMPORTANT!! Read this if you use Brake Cleaner

[johnsironsanctuary]

Don't use brake cleaner to clean something before you weld or heat it. If you heat brake cleaner and add argon, you generate phosgene gas, a major deadly toxin as well as a Weapon of Mass Destruction used during WWI.

http://www.brewracingframes.com/id75.htm

[rusty]

This has been mentioned in the welding mags for a while, but it doesn't hurt to mention it again.

The irony is, chlorinated cleaners were introduced for safety reasons, because the other stuff is flammable....

(Burning certain plastics will also cause HCl poisining btw..)

[bonneyman]

And freon, too. Halogenated hydrocarbons and an open flame produce nasty by-products.

[Ken W.]

Brake parts cleaner is one of my favorite chemicals to use.It will melt the wings off yellow jackets and they are dead quick.I clean firearms with this.It works well.I have read this before but lost it.I'll bookmark this and post it in my garage.

[rusty]

hehehe.....

I was working on aold a car once, and discovered the fender had a nest of hornets living in it.
So, I sprayed them with the closest thing at hand, which turned out to be starting fluid. They all went Thud and landed on the ground in a pile, dead...I thought.
But starting fluid doesn't kill them, it just puts them to sleep.

They all woke up a few minutes later....


And they were REALLY REALLY MAD!