Castrol Super Clean

[TxGreaseMonkey]

Be careful using this product. It's so powerful it ate a hole in the original gallon container and the replacement plastic coke bottle I tried. It also will make your fingers go numb, if you don't use gloves. Never consider using this stuff without safety goggles. I would hate to see what it would do to your eyes.

Oil Eater Cleaner Degreaser from Costco is a much safer product.

[ July 16, 2005, 10:21 PM: Message edited by: TxGreaseMonkey ]

 

[Gurkha]

I use it regularly and consider it to be the best de-greaser around, one that genuinely cleans engines and wheel wells, haven't sufffered any problems so far, been using it since its launch.

 

[tom slick]

I've used the stuff for years and have never had a problem with it eating it's bottles. it will dry your skin badly and discolor aluminum. it's a very alkaline butyl acetate cleaner, that's why it degreases so well.
ZEP purple dereaser is even a bit stronger but it's fumes are bad. lately i've been trying out greased lighting degreaser, it's not as strong but seems to remove grease well.

 

[Pablo]

The problem with the Oil Eater from Costco is the stuff doesn't work.

The latest formulation of Greased Lightning works really well and is a better general cleaner as well. Works great on soap scum, too.

Simple Green isn't bad on most grease but somehow it makes me all chokey so I have trouble breathing.

 

[Tremo]

Castrol Super Clean works great. But yes, do be very careful to avoid contact with the stuff, it's NASTY on the skin. I have not had problems with it eating it's container.

The biggest problem I've found with the stuff is finding it. ALL the local stores don't carry it any longer. I thought this was a California thing, so I drove over into Nevada, and nobody there carries it either. Whassup with that? I had to go online and order it mail order.

So, why are retailers not carrying the stuff any more? Where is the cheapest online place I can get it? I'd really like the get the 1 gallon refill jug.

 

[TxGreaseMonkey]

Consumer Product Safety Commission has received complaints about the product. CPSC lists Castrol as having a major recall of around 850,000 cans, due to Super Clean leaking from spray cans. My problem was with 1 gal. plastic jugs. I think this is a dangerous product and I'm not one to normally say that.

 

[dkcase]

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Originally posted by TxGreaseMonkey:
..... My problem was with 1 gal. plastic jugs. I think this is a dangerous product and I'm not one to normally say that.

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H-m-m-m-m.

I have a bottle in my garage that has been a couple years unopened. I got it for my driveway and haven't gotten around to using it.

I am going to set it into a five-gallon bucket, just in case. Secondary containment.

I have a bottle of muriatic acid stored in a bucket, I use that for cleaning of a toilet bowl that develops mineral deposits and flushes poorly.

 

[TxGreaseMonkey]

When Super Clean ate a hole through the bottom of the container, the particle board shelf in my garage collapsed. It created a mess.

 

[Tremo]

OK fine, so you have to be careful with the stuff.

So the question remains, where can you buy it?

 

[TxGreaseMonkey]

WalMart in Texas.

 

[Tremo]

I did some digging and found out what's going on. Castrol has sold the Super Clean product line to a company called Super Clean Acquisitions. They are shipping the original formula stuff again to 49 States, and will have the special California version shipping by the end of the month.

 

[kc8adu]

the only problem i have had with it is getting a whiff of airborn mist.its a real irritant.
it will dissolve some paints and lettering at full strength.

 

[TheTanSedan]

I remember how imporessed I was at the way it degreased a never-cleaned DETROIT in the Freightliner I was assigned. Tractor had over 700,000 miles on it. Yeah, it'll fade paint and underhood stickers, but, hey . . . .