Suitable Substitute for Freon TF Solvent

What are you cleaning? Any chlorinated hydrocarbon solvent will work, but it might also attack the material you're trying to clean.

CaiKleen NF

I haven't tried the stuff (yet).

Try naphtha. Be very careful because it is flammable and extremely volatile. Use lots of ventilation.

--Winston

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I use naptha as a good general purpose solvent, and resort to paint remover when desperate.

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Cheap local sources have dried up for me. I understand that the stuff is used in preparing drugs now. I can get it as Coleman Camping Fuel in gallons but I'm always asked "where are you camping?" as if they had the slightest interest.

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--Winston

Which one?

Using paint stripper is probably overkill for contact cleaning. All those mentioned are hazardous in some manner. All of those mentioned will eat plastics. However, when desperate, I use automotive brake cleaner (hexane, xylene, ethyl benzene, toluene, methyl alcohol, etc). Unfortunately, it's almost as toxic and also eats plastic.

I haven't seen any problem with VM&P Naphtha on plastics, (whatever VM&P *really* is.) :) It is really gentle and will clean gunk off of plastic coated flooring (for example) without any damage to the surface.

Nasty-in-a-can.

--Winston

Some of the DuPont "Vertrel" solvent products might suit, perhaps?

Jeff Liebermann wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

perhaps automotive Mass Air Flow Sensor cleaner would work? my can of CRC cleaner says it's plastic safe and leaves no residue,and you can find it at most auto parts stores and even Wal-Mart. it's around $3 per 11 oz can.

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So that's pressurized naphtha and mineral spirits for 34.91 a gallon, yes?

For The Moment. :)

--Winston

One word WD40.

I got turned onto WD40 at first I said no freaking way, but seen results of other techs using it so I said wtf. Been using WD40 for almost everything since the 1990's

Thanks for the warning that you're absolutely clueless and potentially dangerous. Freon was used to clean video tape heads and remove any trace of petroleum products. Freon was also used to remove flux from circuit boards in a closed system that recovered & reused the freon.