Ok, I did something stupid.....now what?

bill3337

bill3337

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First I'll say I work in my home double garage. One side is converted to spray booth, the other for fabrication and storing the body etc.

Because the body is in the other side, I decided to assemble the chassis on the booth side after it was painted. The chassis is complete now and I wanted to finish off the brakes and bleed them out before moving the chassis out. Although I know all the dangers of silicones (polishes, armour all, tire shine and all the familiar products), it never dawned on me that the brake fluid I was using is Dot 5....silicone. Of course I spilled some when bleeding and it got on the floor. The floor is covered with a fluid protective covering, so I can remove that and replace it, but am worried about cleaning all the other surfaces of air borne silicone. I am where I am and won't be painting anything for about 5 weeks or so and I'll leave the exhaust fans on for a week or so when I'm finished cleaning, but what is the best cleaner to use to wipe everything down? I was intending to use brake cleaner, but is there something better? Thanks, Bill
 
Clean floor with purple power or simple green and to bee safe when you do paint cover that area on the floor with plastic sheeting as all i use in any car is Dot5 and I've had problems 6 months later, no worries about hanging in air that time but the fan was still drawing it from the floor, so covered it and everything was fine.
Use the 700-1 to clean car not a solvent base.
 
i like dawn because it disperse oils very well . simple green is good too . easy thing is to cover things with plastic. it will hold down contaminates and attract lint .
 
Ok, maybe not as serious as I thought. I'll wash everything carefully with dawn first, then simple green, maybe both a couple times and then cover the floor again I'll paint the underside of the body next to see if I get any fish-eyes, before moving on to any more body parts. Barry, is that the Glasurit 700-1?
 
Shine, I did 7 spray-outs of different colours on sample fenders, trying to get away from the black, but as you might have guessed, she won :(
 
Shine, what is halo blue? It gives the black a different shade? SPI Black?
 
Shine says: ok , somebody cut and past this to the users forum.
pthalo blue is a bright blue toner. when added to black toner it gives a very rich black in SS . we started doing this in the late 60's early 70's . do not use an oem black until you check the formula. many ae full of dirt
 
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