Beware Super Clean

Has anyone everseen a car style pressure washer at an airport
anywhere?

I saw one being used by the owner, but it wasn't provided by the airport. The
aircraft was a Cessna, and the owner said he only used the washer with low pressure
to apply the soapy water. He did the actual scrubbing by hand.

I think someone posted here a couple of weeks ago that the delta between
enough-pressure-to-remove-the-dirt and enough-pressure-to-remove-the-paint was
small. Having had a couple of non-aviation mishaps with my portable pressure
washer, I can believe it.

Dave

Getting the bugs off requires no expensive stuff. Just get a spray bottle
and fill
it with water and walk around and mist the areas with bugs on them. Let it
sit about 4 or 5 minutes and wipe it off with a towel. The bugs come right
off.

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 11:31:03 -0400, Dave Butler
wrote:

Has anyone everseen a car style pressure washer at an airport
anywhere?

I saw one being used by the owner, but it wasn't provided by the airport. The
aircraft was a Cessna, and the owner said he only used the washer with low pressure
to apply the soapy water. He did the actual scrubbing by hand.

I think someone posted here a couple of weeks ago that the delta between
enough-pressure-to-remove-the-dirt and enough-pressure-to-remove-the-paint was
small. Having had a couple of non-aviation mishaps with my portable pressure
washer, I can believe it.

Ditto. I've used a pressure washer to clean my deck. It only takes a
few seconds of lingering to splinter the wood. There is no way I
would use something that abrasive on my plane.

-Nathan

Anyone want to come clean bugs off my wings?

"Jay Masino" wrote in message
...

It seems like a lot of people whine about the relative ease it takes to
get bugs off. I use one of those sponges you can buy that has the
webbing/netting over it, and I can wipe the bugs off with very little
trouble, no matter what liquid I use as a cleaner (even plain water).
I've even cleaned them a week or two after the bugs were "applied" and
they still wipe off without a lot of trouble. I wax my plane
occasionally, but I'm certainly not obsessive about it. It seems that
people are making this a bigger issue than it really is.

--- Jay


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monitor point seven wrote:

In article i9JJc.85017$JR4.59356@attbi_s54,
"Jay Honeck" wrote:

Be careful with that stuff. It clean everything, but perhaps a bit TOO
well?

In addition, that **** will BURN your skin., esp in high concentrations.
I avoid it for that reason, straight Simple Green will do the same work.

Simple Green will also corrode aluminum.

I have found that, if done immediately after flight, water works very
well. I carry a chamois, bottle of water, and a sponge covered with a
nylon mesh. Most times, a simple wipe of the damp chamois is all it
takes. If they are really bad, or I have been aloft for several hours, I
may have to wet the sponge and give it a pass before the chamois.

I just cannot stand the look of bugs on the plane, especially if the
rest is immaculate.

Good Luck,
Mike

Jay Honeck wrote:
Nothing cleans fiberglass better than Castrol's Super Clean. I've been
using it for some time on oil and exhaust stains, and it works great.

Last week I used it to clean the bugs off the cowling, for the first time.
I had been on the road with the plane for a few days, and had not stuck with
my usual post-flight cleaning regimen -- so the bugs were especially
tenacious. I figured the Super Clean would make quick work of them, and I
was right.

Yesterday, while parked up at Madeline Island (in Lake Superior), I looked
at my chromed spinner during pre-flight and was appalled to find the chrome
pitted in a spattered pattern! Mary looked at it and immediately exclaimed
that it looked just like over-spray of some sort -- and I immediately knew
what it was.

I must've over-sprayed onto the spinner from underneath, while spraying up
at the nose cone. I wiped the spinner off thoroughly from above, but not
from below -- and the stuff actually started eating the chrome!

When I got home I immediately hit it with simichrome polish (the best thing
available, IMHO), and -- after an immense amount of elbow grease -- was
relieved to see that it mostly came clean. After 20 minutes or so, I got
it to look presentable again.

Be careful with that stuff. It clean everything, but perhaps a bit TOO
well?


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I just cannot stand the look of bugs on the plane, especially if the
rest is immaculate.

I'll second that motion.

Nothing screams "rental" like a gross, bug-encrusted airplane.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

With all the construction around my home base they have dirt clouds that is
blowing around the airport I wash my windshield by the time I need to clean
it again just after take off witch is inpossable. I think the construction
workers need to spray their dirt while doing construction to keep the dust
clouds down they know they are 150' from an airport's runway.


"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:M4YJc.71720$WX.6133@attbi_s51...
I just cannot stand the look of bugs on the plane, especially if the
rest is immaculate.

I'll second that motion.

Nothing screams "rental" like a gross, bug-encrusted airplane.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Getting the bugs off requires no expensive stuff. Just get a spray bottle
and fill
it with water and walk around and mist the areas with bugs on them. Let it
sit about 4 or 5 minutes and wipe it off with a towel. The bugs come right

No mention on any posts about using REJEX

With all the construction around my home base they have dirt clouds that is
blowing around the airport I wash my windshield by the time I need to clean

I know the feeling, at my airport they are digging up 9-27 and relocating it.
What a mess