Anyone ever use old school Inhibisol?

[RichardZ]

My father was a machinist at work and always worked on his cars at home. That's how I picked up my habit of maintaining my own vehicles.

He would bring home Inhibisol from work and use it cleaning parts. That's what he called it anyways. In metal 1-gallon cans. This was the 1970+80s. This stuff really worked great.

Anyone ever heard of it or used it?

 

[RDMgr]

I think prior to the Montreal Protocol, Inhibisol was 1, 1, 1-trichloroethane. It contributed to depletion of the ozone layer. It is a strong cleaner/degreaser. It could even de-fat skin. It had quite a few significant health risks associated with it.

 

[lilspenny]

My father was a machinist at work and always worked on his cars at home. That's how I picked up my habit of maintaining my own vehicles.

He would bring home Inhibisol from work and use it cleaning parts. That's what he called it anyways. In metal 1-gallon cans. This was the 1970+80s. This stuff really worked great.

Anyone ever heard of it or used it?

I worked at a place that recycled that and several similar chemicals. I'd like to have a lifetime supply. We'd pick up dirty drums, distill it, re-sell it. Some drums leaked out and killed some cows down the hill. The farmer complained but our boss basically told the farmer to suck an egg. Next thing you know the epa is running around with space suits and all kinds of fork lifts, skid steers, 18 wheelers, dump trucks, and that place looked like a scene from Mars. Blank land. Out of business. I had that "trike" all over my hands daily, and even sniffed it for i.d. purposes several times daily. In 5,000 years when people discover our nuclear waste and skeletal remains of 5yr olds in old cobalt mines they are going to ask "What were they thinking?". And here we are worried that we'll lose our right to use gasoline o.p.e.. So what's worse, abusing 5yr old kids and creating nuclear waste that will be killer basically forever, or polluting our land and air with various chemicals? Take Stihl, for example. Stihl is so proud of being "green". But.... I just saw that they have a battery for handheld equipment that is almost $500. .... smh at our "progress" and the wimpish beaurocrats in charge of this movement. There are actually men, fathers of our children, who gush at the idea of taking a classic Corvette in mint condition and replacing the original V8 and transmission with electrical systems. Where is my japslapper? and my Tylenol?

 

[97prizm]

My father was a machinist at work and always worked on his cars at home. That's how I picked up my habit of maintaining my own vehicles.

He would bring home Inhibisol from work and use it cleaning parts. That's what he called it anyways. In metal 1-gallon cans. This was the 1970+80s. This stuff really worked great.

Anyone ever heard of it or used it?

Is it carcinogenic? I've honestly never heard of it or have seen it.

 

[ms21043]

Use it at work all the time. Don't know if it's the same stuff as before.