Cleaning gunk with washer fluid?

I have used Windex and lately I have been using baby wipes to clean off the aircraft after a day of flying. John

I keep a box of tissues in my flight box. After each flight, grab a couple and remove most of the obvious oil.

At the end of the day, after cleaning off most of the gunk I simply add some methylated Spirits to the tissue to remove the rest of the oil residue.

Both are cheap, and easily obtainable.

Bob in Aus

wahser contains isporopyl alcohol. A good solvent as it rarely attcks anything.

I used too use washing up liquid in the 60's, after squirting the plane with fresh fuel :-)

Denatured alcohol and paper towels.

The alcohol cuts right through the oil residue, usually one pass is sufficient.

Good way to get oil off your hands, too.

Since I keep a gallon or two of denatured and a case of paper towels on hand in the building shop anyway, not a problem to re-stock the flight box.

Cheers, Fred McClellan The House Of Balsa Dust

One thing I do is to wipe the plane with paper towels first. This gets rid of a lot of the residue. Then I use some sort of cleaner. Getting rid of a lot of oil first makes the whole process easier.

Arne

"Cheap and readily available".... I've been using "Simple Green" for quite a while (years). You can buy it concentrated at places like Home Depot etc. and the gallon I bought several years ago is still 3/4 full. Being a concentrate, you only use about an ounce to a quart of water. Better yet, YOU can determine the strength by varying the mix so if you want more grease cutting action, just use more.

MJC

I use 50-50 Formula 409 and rubbing alcohol. Works great. Dr.1 Driver "There's a Hun in the sun!"

Hey, I'm really cheap! I use a couple of squirts of Dawn dishwashing soap mixed with water in a spray bottle. Works for me.

RCFlyr sed that!! d:^)

Kelly Shamash wrote:

I use baby wipes, get them cheap from the market. Usually they do the trick but if it's really bad then I also use the Mr Muscle, Orange Kitchen spray stuff.

Someone tol' me the Orange stuff was bad for moneycote

Buy one of those Scotchbrite cleaning cloths. I wipe off the gunk off with a paper towel and use it to wipe off the rest., and my glo models clean up without using anything else.

Morris