Stumbled upon a spoke cleaner
11-15-23, 06:23 PM
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Stumbled upon a spoke cleaner
Last night I was puttering around in the garage on some wheels with weird stubborn stains. While trying a few things, I decided to try some glass cooktop cleaner. This cleaned the rims quickly with very little elbow grease. There was no listing of ingredients but I suspect it is similar to Bar Keepers Friend. Then I decided to try it on the spokes which were equally nasty. I couldn't get a picture that really showed the difference, but it did well to remove the funk from the spokes as well. I don't think it would do anything to older galvanized spokes, but on these stainless steel spokes it didn't do a terrible job. I think some cold afternoon this winter, I may pull the wheels off and work on the spoke while watching some old westerns and see how it goes.
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11-15-23, 07:12 PM
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... while watching some old westerns.
11-15-23, 07:41 PM
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I use liquid Barkeepers friend and aluminum foil on slightly rusty zinc spokes and any thing chrome. It seems like a much gentler cleanup than using steel wool. Then I rub the spokes down with Never Dull wadding, which seems to keep the rust at bay. Bikes in service tend to get the occasional wd40 spray down, which also helps.
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I was hoping for a service.
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Looks good! Sometimes, you need a progression of products when a simple polish doesn't remove everything (e.g., Mothers). Looked this up and found the ingredients on their website.
Product Name: Glass Cook Top Cleaner & Polish
Product Code: 2CT, 38, 72, 100, 137
Ingredients/ CAS No./ Function
Water/ 7732-18-5/ Diluent
Mineral abrasive/ Withheld/ Abrasive
Surfactant blend/ Not available/ Cleaning agent
Dimethicone/ 63148-62-9/ Gloss
Bentonite/ Withheld/ Thickener
Plastic abrasive/ Withheld/ Abrasive
Disodium citrate/ 68-04-2/ Buffer
Xanthan gum /11138-66-2/ Thickener
Polyalkylene glycol/ 9003-11-6/ Cleaning agent
Sodium phosphate monobasic/ 7558-80-7/ Cleaning agent
Citric acid/ 77-92-9/ pH adjuster
Allyl heptanoate/ 142-19-8/ Fragrance
Quartz/ 14808-60-7/ Abrasive
Methylchloroisothiazolinone/ 26172-55-4/ Preservative
Methylisothiazolinone/ 2682-20-4/ Preservative
I'll leave actual evaluation to the chemists, but it looks primarily like a variety of abrasives in an acidic suspension along with surfactants (detergent) and something to make it smell pretty.
Product Name: Glass Cook Top Cleaner & Polish
Product Code: 2CT, 38, 72, 100, 137
Ingredients/ CAS No./ Function
Water/ 7732-18-5/ Diluent
Mineral abrasive/ Withheld/ Abrasive
Surfactant blend/ Not available/ Cleaning agent
Dimethicone/ 63148-62-9/ Gloss
Bentonite/ Withheld/ Thickener
Plastic abrasive/ Withheld/ Abrasive
Disodium citrate/ 68-04-2/ Buffer
Xanthan gum /11138-66-2/ Thickener
Polyalkylene glycol/ 9003-11-6/ Cleaning agent
Sodium phosphate monobasic/ 7558-80-7/ Cleaning agent
Citric acid/ 77-92-9/ pH adjuster
Allyl heptanoate/ 142-19-8/ Fragrance
Quartz/ 14808-60-7/ Abrasive
Methylchloroisothiazolinone/ 26172-55-4/ Preservative
Methylisothiazolinone/ 2682-20-4/ Preservative
I'll leave actual evaluation to the chemists, but it looks primarily like a variety of abrasives in an acidic suspension along with surfactants (detergent) and something to make it smell pretty.
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I also like old westerns. Got to see The Wild Bunch in theater a few years ago...my oh my what a show that was.
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