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I guess I was a bit vague with the above statement. Zep Products makes carburetor cleaner with Methylene Chloride in it. Many times I'vd dunked parts into my carb cleaner pail to strip off paint. Works great.
Best I can tell, ZEP has removed it as well - at least it doesn't exist in their US Catalog.
 
I'm rebuilding a basket case that supposedly had the crank ready to install. Not trusting that I checked and the conrod nuts were finger tight as were the crankshaft studs. So, I took it all apart for inspection. The journals are beautiful and there are new shells. That's where the good stops. The conrod bolts are easy to put in and remove from both the conrods and bottom part - not used to that - I think someone reamed the holes. The bolts a snug but an easy slip fit. That's not the worse part.

The six studs are loose in both crank cheeks and the flywheel. I've seen the bottom and middle two be an easy slip fit but the top to are normally quite tight in the holes. I assume that between the bottom peg and the top two studs, the crank cheeks are located. I estimate that there is about 0.001" all around the studs.

Do you think the crank is usable? How about the rods?

Get the old Jorgenson Cycle Mag artical . OVERSIZE CRANK BOLITS , and other things .

Zero Time Rods, please . if possable . NoS . Hobbot & Norton rods , says they dont break . or corse a moron can wreck anything .
Particularly Their Bolts ! .Visit a race shop . Custom Ground offset heads on Chevy bolts ? or the like .
Used to measure bolt STRETCH rather than tourque , in some quaters .

Can find &or make TAITANIUM crank bolts !
 
It no longer has Methylene Chloride and it does pretty much nothing.
I just used this stuff to remove the powder coat from parts of a frame. Brushed on, wait 45 min, scrape off easily.
 

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I just used this stuff to remove the powder coat from parts of a frame. Brushed on, wait 45 min, scrape off easily.
Are you sure you're talking about powder coat?

The old Aircraft Stripper would remove bubble Norton frame paint in about a minute and the new can I tried about took about 45 minutes. I tried it on a bracket I powder coated that got dust in it, left it an hour and it did nothing but dull the coating. Of course, there are different types of powder coat so I will test it - I have the exact can you show.

BTW, any chemical must do a lot more than soften the powder coat - no way to scrape all parts of a cylinder. I must loosen enough for brushers or power washer to remove.
 
Are you sure you're talking about powder coat?

The old Aircraft Stripper would remove bubble Norton frame paint in about a minute and the new can I tried about took about 45 minutes. I tried it on a bracket I powder coated that got dust in it, left it an hour and it did nothing but dull the coating. Of course, there are different types of powder coat so I will test it - I have the exact can you show.

BTW, any chemical must do a lot more than soften the powder coat - no way to scrape all parts of a cylinder. I must loosen enough for brushers or power washer to remove.
I was told it was powder coat and it certainly appeared to be powder coat, but as you say, there may be different types. Agreed stripping a cylinder barrel is more difficult than frame parts but the way the powder coat that I have behaved with the Aircraft paint Remover, wire brushes would have been effective as well.
 
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