Lectricol

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Does anyone here remember stuff called "Lectricol"? Came in a red gallon can and I last used it about 20 years ago. Thought I had an old half can kicking about (still looking). Great for cleaning up motors, switch gear etc. You could literally dunk a stator in it, give it a clean and put the thing back together with a cursory wipe. A mate of mine who was apprenticed as an armature winder recommended it to me. It's not actually the Lectricol I want but another product the company did. Think it was something like Jackson Chemicals and the name Harry Foss rings a bell (yes, I've Googled the permutations)...............it's the company I can't recall!

Cheers

 

[binky]

probably banned under COSHH by now

 

[roys]

Think I still have a tin of that in the dark reaches of my garage, also remember another product that was named something like Armaclean, what I remember most is the fumes of it, as we used it to clean the tank on OCB's with it, certainaly a floaty head and God knows what else from that product. 

 

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Think I still have a tin of that in the dark reaches of my garage, also remember another product that was named something like Armaclean, what I remember most is the fumes of it, as we used it to clean the tank on OCB's with it, certainaly a floaty head and God knows what else from that product. 

Do me a favour if you would and have a nose if there's any contact details still on the tin. No doubt they're long gone but can only try! Would be much appreciated. Cheers.

The worlds gone mad I tell you! Next thing I wont be allowed to put my overalls in the Trike bath!  :lol:

 

[septiclecky]

The other cleaner I remember was called Armaclean.

As said Electricol is probably banned as I think it contained Tricolethelyene (Trike)

 

[roys]

Ah ha found the tin, bit rusty and a lot of the label missing however I can make out that it does contain:

trichloroethane and petroleum distilate and I think it says Arrow Chemicals Ltd Staffordshire DE11 9BE. 

Also says Electrical Parts Cleaning Solvent (Retarded Evaporation)

Just had a sniff of it and it brought back so many memories of spending hours cleaning OCB tanks. 

 

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Ah ha found the tin, bit rusty and a lot of the label missing however I can make out that it does contain:

trichloroethane and petroleum distilate and I think it says Arrow Chemicals Ltd Staffordshire DE11 9BE. 

Also says Electrical Parts Cleaning Solvent (Retarded Evaporation)

Just had a sniff of it and it brought back so many memories of spending hours cleaning OCB tanks. 

Cheers for that. Don't for the life of me remember Arrow Chemicals though! Will have a look on their site for an equivalent of what I'm after. Basically it was a brush (slosh?) on liquid you used on ferry and cargo decks which may have been badly "scraped" down into the metal. Downtime being an issue this stuff was a non slip penetrating "shield" that would tide them over until the next time they made port and could attend to it properly. Thanks again.

 

[Evans Electric]

Don't recollect those products but I do remember Tricoletholene .  I began apprenticeship with  maintenance sparks,  so I'm 15  , we lift out a starter caked in gunge/ oil etc ....sparks says back to the workshop , lift the cover on that tank in the corner and give this a good clean .  

So I'm leaning over the tank , swishing the starter about in the Trike ,    I wake up outside with two sparks sitting by me .    Health & Safety virtually unheard of back then  .

They also wanted me to climb to the top of a triple extension ladder against the wall ...then they wanted to move the ladder to the middle of nowhere under an overhead that needed hooking back onto a catenary .     I refused.   

 

[binky]

trike, freon, and toluene - all banned for different reasons. We used to have a hot Freon bath - fffing excellent cleaning system.

 

[OnOff]

Oddly enough I've been using Jizer Bio lately rather than the normal stuff and it's much better for heavy degreasing.

So much you can't get away with now. Must have been 10 years ago I last "got" someone with the Megger (a steel fabricator who didn't believe it'd hurt). Many a happy hour spent with an acetylene bottle, a packet of balloons and a reel of Sellotape for a "sticky" fuse................not much in the way of lift though and proper scary on a windy day........... :innocent

 

[Andy™]

 Many a happy hour spent with an acetylene bottle, a packet of balloons and a reel of Sellotape for a "sticky" fuse................not much in the way of lift though and proper scary on a windy day........... :innocent

Dont be giving me idea's...