Well, I'm sat here in the study listening to hold music on the NatWest fraud helpline, but that's another story. So I browsed through the Telegraph "1,000 ways to save money and time" which was free with Saturday's paper. It says you can use cooking spray (whatever that is) to clean brake dust off your car wheels. Here is the distilled wisdom of the item;
"... brake dust - produced every time ... the pads wear against the brake disks or cylinders. "
Cylinders indeed. If my brake pads were anywhere near the cylinders I would be looking at a design fault, not for some cooking spray.
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Not readers digest but a snippet in my local paper from some money saving book written by a woman. It suggests using washing liquid instead of shampoo for your car. Now there are several flaws in that, washing up liquid is no cheaper than car shampoo and washing up liquid contains sodium so its like spraying rust onto your car.
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shampoo and washing up liquid contains sodium so its like spraying rust onto your car.
So how much salt is in in a 500ml bottle? 10% max?
so how much liquid do you squirt in to a bucket? 10ml? so there is 1ml of salt in 7 litres of water. Not exaclty liquid rust is it!
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Cooking spray near or on brake discs, brilliant idea! That would eliminate brake squeal...
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Cooking spray near or on brake discs brilliant idea! That would eliminate brake squeal...
Mrs H tells me that cooking spray is oil. Thank you CC, I seem to have missed the point by a fair margin.
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>>cooking spray
Given the context, I took it to be a foreigner's description of oven cleaner?
Maybe the whole thing has been badly translated from a different language? Parts of it remind me of the owner manual's that came with 1970s Datsuns.
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Yuk! I guess it falls under the same heading as 'ironing water'?
I fail to see how spraying processed veg oil onto brake discs will do anything other than cause a sticky coagulate mess of polymerised oil and dust.
I'm not sure that it's a good idea to get it on rubber tyres either. Cooking oil is great for removing paper stickers or the glue they leave behind, so it may affect the latex and resins in tyres too.
Edited by Hamsafar on 01/02/2009 at 13:25
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If you break a shoelace on your tennis shoe,thread a pipecleaner thro' the holes to keep them on;must remember to put some pipecleaners in my pocket before I get to Wimbledon.
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this is the same booklet that suggests when camping, you heat stones in your camp fire, wrap them in towels and tinfoil and put them in the bottom of your sleeping bag to keep your feet warm. What planet are these people from ?
You'll struggle to find a campsite in this country that allows open fires, and if your wild camping, severly blistered feet are a real bonus
oh, and the other monet saving tip for tinfoil - wrap a cheese sandwich in it, and if you arrive at a hotel when the restaurant is closed, heat it with the iron !
I think somebodies having a laugh at the Telegraph's expense
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I'm always reminded of the late "Blaster" Bates' definition of an expert; "ex" is something that has been, and "spurt" is a drip under pressure!
Says it all.
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The OP's paraphrasing has misrepresented what was written.
"Keeping car wheels clean. The fine black coating that collects on the wheels of the car and is so hard to clean is brake dust - produced every time you apply the brakes and the pads wear against the brake disks or cylinders. The next time you invest the elbow grease to get your wheels shiny, give them a light coating of cooking spray first. The brake dust should wipe right off."
So there you have it. A light coating of oil (cooking spray - the stuff you can squirt on your frying pan if you are out of lard) on your wheel prevents the brake dust sticking.
"Brake disks or cylinders". Possibly what the Americans call discs and drums?
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No idea if it is still true, but Fairy Liquid was the only washing up liquid that didn't contain salt. (The firm my brother worked for use it for cleanijng PCBs). Reason it is there is it is a very cheap bulking agent.
But if you are prepared to buy in bulk, proper car shampoo is not expensive.
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No salt in FL which is why motorcyclists swear by it as a visor cleaner and misting preventer - leaves no residue.
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Which is what I use to wash our cars - infrequently.
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I've used the cheapest of cheap washing up liquids to clean cars, motorcycles and cycles for forty years and any vehicle I was determined to look after stayed in pristine condition for however long I had it. There is only a tiny bit of salt in washing up liquid, only a small drop of washing up liquid in a bucket of water and it is hosed off within ten minutes of applying.
After the first 100 yards of your journey in tomorrows conditions you will get more salt on your car than ten lifetimes of cleaning will put there, and even if you are a regular buffing and polishing freak it will be there until next weekend at least.
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