Workshop clean-ups
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 8:27 am
Not sure whether this is well-known, but biological clothes washing liquid - any brand, so long as it contains enzymes - makes for a superb wash-out for paint brushes, oil, grease and the like, where you might otherwise use a fair old quantity of expensive and objectionable solvent.
Example: Brush used for Hammerite
Put a tiny splash of thinner in an old jar, splosh on a generous squirt of Bio liquid, and wiggle the brush around in it. Add some warm water, and stir up again. Discard liquid (which is now water-miscible), and finish off with a fresh squirt of Bio and water. Leaves a perfectly clean brush, with negligible solvent use.
Bio liquid also works on gloss paint (often without turps/brush cleaner), varnish, oily or greasy engine parts (no need for Gunk), creosote and wood preserve, paint rollers . . .
Matter of personal choice whether you use it on your laundry, though!
Example: Brush used for Hammerite
Put a tiny splash of thinner in an old jar, splosh on a generous squirt of Bio liquid, and wiggle the brush around in it. Add some warm water, and stir up again. Discard liquid (which is now water-miscible), and finish off with a fresh squirt of Bio and water. Leaves a perfectly clean brush, with negligible solvent use.
Bio liquid also works on gloss paint (often without turps/brush cleaner), varnish, oily or greasy engine parts (no need for Gunk), creosote and wood preserve, paint rollers . . .
Matter of personal choice whether you use it on your laundry, though!
