Right stuff to clean garage floor - heavy oil.

On 15 Jul 2006 09:36:01 -0700, "Clay" <claytonjaystorym>
wrote:

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>To remove oil and grease from cast iron engines, oven cleaner.
>K&E Chemical company makes many formulations of products. One product
>from K&E is KLENZTONE #1. This does a good job of cleaning up concrete
>and is much safer than Muratic Acid.
>Steam cleaning works well on concrete.
>Tide ground into the surface and wet down will work. When using this
>method, sprinkle the surface with sawdust to absorbe the mess.
>In the future, use oil dry on the oil spills before they get too bad.

Muriatic aka swimming pool acid would be a total disaster if combined
with oil and concrete. Concrete surface would be ruined - as will
your nose. May not do anything to oil. Just try a test patch and
watch the smoke!
Oil base products does not hurt concrete.
j

"ronbon" <n877@msn.com> wrote in message news:1152838199.424698.134870@p79g2000cwp. o...
> Muriatic acid will do it. Be careful.
> Ron
>

Muratic acid would not remove oil or clean anything oily.
It works pretty good at etching concrete and removing rust stains.

But you could easily burn your lungs or damage the concrete. At best
it will need a sealer after as well
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On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 21:22:47 GMT, "Danny G." <dandog@pacbell.net>
wrote:

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>"ronbon" <n877@msn.com> wrote in message news:1152838199.424698.134870@p79g2000cwp. o...
>> Muriatic acid will do it. Be careful.
>> Ron
>>
>
>Muratic acid would not remove oil or clean anything oily.
>It works pretty good at etching concrete and removing rust stains.
>
>But you could easily burn your lungs or damage the concrete. At best
>it will need a sealer after as well
>.
>

I've seen some commercial-grade orange-based (terpenes) degreasers
that will do a pretty good job on oil and grease. It even cleaned a
half-combusted diesel/motor oil mixture out of my clothes (from a
Delmag diesel hammer). I think the cleaner was Interstate brand, but
I'm sure there are others too.

I suppose you could also stop by your local auto repair shop and ask
what they use.

I recently resorted to the petrol method to start a BBQ. I've done it
many times before when im feeling lazy but in the UK the temps are
fairly low and vapourisation is fairly slow. You can put the can down,
find the matches, hold at arms length etc and all you get is a little
pop. This time the outside temps were in the 90s and in direct sunlight
well over 100. I poured half a cup full onto the piled coals, put the
tin down, lit a match and put it in the BBQ. Unlike the usual colder
weather BBQ this one exploded nicely, enveloping a 6ft diameter sphere
in flame and bouncing coals around. Fortunately it was open space and i
was ready to react fast enough to duck but i did lose the hairs on my
hand in the process. I cant imagine doing that in an enclosed space
with no-where to duck.

Makes a lovely deep whooshing thump noise though :-)