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Offline Gilligan

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Got some industrial mystery degreaser
« on: January 29, 2012, 01:25:10 PM »
A buddy of mine's father owns a oilfield rental company and has large containers of degreaser concentrate so he gave me about two gallons of it.

So how do I figure out how to cut this?  Is there a danger of it being "too concentrated"?

I've got some old mesh and some brand new busted mesh I could test it on... what kind of test should I conduct?


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Re: Got some industrial mystery degreaser
« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2012, 01:28:42 PM »

Offline ScreenFoo

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Re: Got some industrial mystery degreaser
« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2012, 03:01:41 PM »
Who's getting crude on your screens?   ;)

Isn't that stuff for "eating" petroleum products?

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Re: Got some industrial mystery degreaser
« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2012, 06:09:39 PM »
Wouldn't a degreaser that gets of crude be able to degrease our screens?

It's probably way more expensive, but when you don't have to pay for it. ;)

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Re: Got some industrial mystery degreaser
« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2012, 07:18:16 PM »
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M.X. #1 is a proprietary blend of bacteria, nutrients and washing agents

That stuff would be fabulous for cleaning crude oil off a rock or a bird, but probably not your screens.

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Offline mk162

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Re: Got some industrial mystery degreaser
« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2012, 08:22:11 AM »
yeah, if you are worried about price, just use diluted dawn dishsoap....which also takes the crude off of birds.

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Re: Got some industrial mystery degreaser
« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2012, 07:50:08 AM »
i'm sure diluted down enough the product will work just fine. i use 701 as my ink degradent and dont degrease anymore. no problems yet.
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Offline Gilligan

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Re: Got some industrial mystery degreaser
« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2012, 10:50:44 AM »
Yeah, it has 7% sodium metasilicate and then the bio stuff... so it probably will work.

I dipped some mesh in it the other day to see how it holds up... I forgot about it... so it has time to dry on there for days now.  That will be a good test. ;)

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Re: Got some industrial mystery degreaser
« Reply #8 on: January 31, 2012, 10:54:46 AM »
you will be fine until the bacteria eats your face.  ;D

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Re: Got some industrial mystery degreaser
« Reply #9 on: January 31, 2012, 11:12:06 AM »
You trying to say I have a greasy face? :p

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Re: Got some industrial mystery degreaser
« Reply #10 on: January 31, 2012, 11:38:09 AM »
Nope, just hoping it's not flesh eating bacteria.