this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2025
58 points (98.3% liked)
Asklemmy
44687 readers
1135 users here now
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
Search asklemmy ๐
If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!
- Open-ended question
- Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
- Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
- Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
- An actual topic of discussion
Looking for support?
Looking for a community?
- Lemmyverse: community search
- sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
- [email protected]: a community for finding communities
~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I buy the orange stuff by the gallon because I can use it for bike chain degreasing, and woodworking ( as a solvent for oil finishes, etc.), etc.
When we want to break hydrocarbon chains we use bases by default. But, I'd not use a base on a bike chain because if it rusts even a little bit it's junk.
For woodworking why is this better than mineral spirits?
I don't know about 'better', but I prefer it for being less fumey, I feel better about occasionally getting some on my skin, and prefer not using petroleum derivatives. I know there's low fume mineral spirits and I've used that for paint cleanup, but i'm not confident it behaves the same for finishes.
That makes sense. I'll give it a try. Thank you for teaching me.