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This stuff:



Ever use it in the soap reservoir of a power washer?

Tks

Wabi, is that you?

No but I know for a fact that the stuff WILL take the paint off of steel and plastics and will leave tires gummy. Careful with it.

It will take cshit off, with the paint

Yeah thanks Ironbender,
I just washed my car with that schit.

I’m not sure about paint but watch out on aluminum

Not in a pressure wersher.

For heavy duty cleaning, I’ll mix up some soap in a pump up garden sprayer.

I use “Cajun Brown”. I think it’s got a bit of caustic in it. Warm on the hands. 😂.

It’ll get gumbo mud off stuff.

Used it on my beat a round truck once. Turned the aluminum rims black. 😂😂.


A good cheap cleaner?

LA’s Totally Awesome degreaser. $1 / gal at the DG.

Don’t let the price fool ya. It works.

If necessary - I like Simple Green or Jungle Jake.

Whenever an oil cooler on a CAT would puke - we'd run Jungle Jake through the rad and cooling systems to get it clean at Pete.

I've used Purple Power in place of Simple Green, always figured them as interchangeable. I mostly use them on my fiberglass boat.

Couldn't be. The picture is in focus.

I call that chit Agent Orange.

If I can't get it clean with Purple Power or Simple Green, I pull out the Agent Orange.

Makes your hands silky smooth too - removes the top layer of epidermis on contact.

In my experience, that purple cleaner is just about the strongest degreaser you can buy over the counter. It is very similar to oven cleaner and I think it has lye in it which is why it works so well. Lots of companies make it. I have always had good luck with Zep products and that is the brand I try to buy. It will dissolve paint and aluminum if left to soak too long.

Yes but just to clean the under carriage and engine compartments. Never on paint.

Yes, if you can control the soap metering (dilution). Or dilute before putting in reservoir.
Not recommended on Auto paint.

I have lichens growing on top of my 3-horse trailer. Used the PP to clean it off the seams to be able to reseal them. Wanted to use it on the rest of the top to repaint it.

It worked great on the seams. Sprayed on and scrubbed with a stiff bristled brush.



Metering from the soap tank on the washer is fixed, and there are no adjustments I can make. I’m concerned it will be too dilute.

It will work ..dulls paint , cleans oily chit, hook the PW to your hot water, you don't care about your PW run it hot 125 + , u want to keep the PW run 100 deg water thur it . And match your soap to what your cleaning. That black stuff on your roof was alive at some point.....

Simple Green only on my shop bench. Works on everything including gun parts.

LA Awesome plus Westleys Bleche white, mixed 50/50 is the best trailer, gutter, downspout cleaner I've ever used.
Spray, wait, wipe or rinse.

PW specifically says no hot water!

I was pleasantly surprised it worked on this stuff. I know it degreases.

Never have seen those here.


The PP works great on this. Just trying to lessen the amount of Manuel labor.

I use the Castrol Super Clean version. I mix 50-50 with water in a weed sprayer. Spray, wait 10 minutes, rinse with pressure washer. Cleans automotive grease/oils great. OK on aluminum wheels and tanks, but it does dull the paint it it is left to sit on there.