How Do You Get Rid Of An Oil Stain?

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Re: How Do You Get Rid Of An Oil Stain?

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Can you turn the slabs around, or are they fixed?
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Re: How Do You Get Rid Of An Oil Stain?

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Brett wrote:Can you turn the slabs around, or are they fixed?
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Re: How Do You Get Rid Of An Oil Stain?

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Get some brake cleaner. Spray cans are the most common, but at £5+ that's an expensive way of buying it! Go to Partco or a motor trade supplier, and you can get a 5lt tin of brake cleaner, soak it all over the stain, get something like kitchen roll to soak it all up, and hey presto, it's all gone :smt003
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Re: How Do You Get Rid Of An Oil Stain?

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£5 a can good grief man I'm paying £1.25

Is there a market out there for cheap brake cleaner for say £3 a can ????
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cargo wrote:£5 a can good grief man I'm paying £1.25

Is there a market out there for cheap brake cleaner for say £3 a can ????
Halfords sell it for £5.99 :smt012.
I would take a couple of cans of you for £3 :smt002
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Re: How Do You Get Rid Of An Oil Stain?

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cargo wrote:£5 a can good grief man I'm paying £1.25

Is there a market out there for cheap brake cleaner for say £3 a can ????
£1.25 for a spray can ???. Well, I do end up buying branded stuff at bike shops, or £3+ ish from Halfords, but I've never seen it that cheap, hence why I buy 5lt cans.

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a little bucket could be useful to catch any future leaks lol. other than that just pass the buck an blame someone else.
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superman wrote:a little bucket could be useful to catch any future leaks lol. other than that just pass the buck an blame someone else.

Hard to do when I'm the only one who rides a bike and I don't park in an 'official' space! :smt003
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Re: How Do You Get Rid Of An Oil Stain?

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some temp down stairs parked in my place once and left oil all over the place guess who got the blame :smt013 guess who also told them to shag a sheep when they gave me the bill to clean it as well.
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Re: How Do You Get Rid Of An Oil Stain?

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rene wrote:some temp down stairs parked in my place once and left oil all over the place guess who got the blame :smt013 guess who also told them to shag a sheep when they gave me the bill to clean it as well.

BILL??????? shocking
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Re: How Do You Get Rid Of An Oil Stain?

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ever thought of fixing your oil leak jamz?
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Re: How Do You Get Rid Of An Oil Stain?

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yeah, perfect excuse to start using that duct tape thats been gathering dust since u sold your vfr! :smt005

just read online that coca-cola will get oil off, just leave it on the oil for half hour then scrub

stands to reason, u ever put a penny in coke? well acidic! shocking

and if that dont work, i've never known this stuff fail to shift anything........

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Re: How Do You Get Rid Of An Oil Stain?

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I think ts the sugar in the coke that does it, if it can rot the enamel on your teeth it'll kill anything! Dont they also use sugar in some industrial cleaners?
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RedexRobB wrote:Dont they also use sugar in some industrial cleaners?
i think you're right mate...

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Re: How Do You Get Rid Of An Oil Stain?

Post by Vard66 »

Just fairy liquid and your average granulated will have the same effect as any more expensive sugar soap or swarfega. Hence I've got a bottle of fairy, and a pot of sugar in the boot of the 'Tesse at all times.
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