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Sun May 11, 2008 6:15 pm

Cleaning out my newly bought 34 pict 3 solex from ebay and dipped it in b12 chemdip........Dam it they made the chem dip shitty now too. The black soot deposits inside the barrel are still there and that was left in the dip can for 2 hours........WTF. 19.95 FROM autozone for a gallon can of shit?

Sun May 11, 2008 6:28 pm

Yes, the new 'enviro friendly' stuff is crap.

Mon May 12, 2008 6:53 am

thanks for the heads up so i don't waste money on the dip.
i have gotten good results from using a good name-brand spray.

Mon May 12, 2008 7:09 am

If you let it soak, then scrub it with say a scotch brite pad, then put it back in and slosh it around it'll usually get it mostly clean.

After that I hit all the jets and the ports n such with a can of carb cleaner.

Mon May 12, 2008 7:19 am

The last time I used the new 'environmentally friendly' stuff, I painted the can black, and set it in the sun for a few days - that seemed to help.

One of the active ingredients in the old stuff was methylene chloride which I'm assuming you can't get OTC any longer.

OTOH, with the old carb dip, I would smell it on my hands for days afterwards.

Mon May 12, 2008 8:19 am

Last time I looked you could still buy Berryman's in California which I'd say is a bell-weather enviro state. That stuff makes a good carb-dunk but don't leave it in too long.

Mon May 12, 2008 9:21 am

BarryL wrote: Last time I looked you could still buy Berryman's in California which I'd say is a bell-weather enviro state. That stuff makes a good carb-dunk but don't leave it in too long.

Berryman's now makes two versions, original and California complaint dip. I haven't tried the California version yet, but it was shelved at NAPA.

Mon May 12, 2008 9:24 am

http://www.berrymanproducts.com/Default.aspx?tabid=146

Mon May 12, 2008 9:41 am

thom wrote: The last time I used the new 'environmentally friendly' stuff, I painted the can black, and set it in the sun for a few days - that seemed to help.

One of the active ingredients in the old stuff was methylene chloride which I'm assuming you can't get OTC any longer.

OTOH, with the old carb dip, I would smell it on my hands for days afterwards.

Good idea on adding heat, Thom - I'll have to try that.

Yeah, methylene chloride is nasty stuff, but it's a really good stripper of just about anything. When I was in auto shop in high school, a kid was cleaning his carb with his hands in carb dip for 20-30 minutes without gloves. By the time the teacher saw him, the skin on his hands was literally coming off in strips. He got a quick ride in an ambulance and never came back to auto shop. But the rest of us learned something too. :shock:

Mon May 12, 2008 9:48 am

The last stuff I bought about two years ago was the Berryman in the one gallon can with the dip basket. I let it soak overnight and then cleaned it with carb cleaner. It made it look brand new. I am still using the same one gallon can. I wonder what the shelf life is? It still works just like it did when new, just the liquid is black rather than yellow.

Mon May 12, 2008 10:11 am

P-Dub wrote: The last stuff I bought about two years ago was the Berryman in the one gallon can with the dip basket. I let it soak overnight and then cleaned it with carb cleaner. It made it look brand new. I am still using the same one gallon can. I wonder what the shelf life is? It still works just like it did when new, just the liquid is black rather than yellow.

My original 2 1/2 gallon dip from the 70's lasted over 20 years and did a lot of carbs over that time. Somebody told me to add more periodically to raise the level in the can to eliminate as much air as I could, and maybe that helped. When I was actively using it, I would just buy a gallon every few years and add it to the 2 1/2 gallon can as the level went down. Eventually it just evaporated and left the sludge as my work dropped and I didn't do any carbs. By then the can was rusting through too, and now you can only buy 1 gallon or 5. The 2 1/2 gallon size was a good compromise since at the time I was doing 4 barrel carbs too.