"JJS" jschneider@remove socks cebridge.net wrote in message
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Every once in awhile someone asks about our favorite aerospace vehicle
cleaners and/or waxes. A few weeks ago I was in Texas at a NASCAR race.
One of the trailers out in front was manned by Simple Green reps. I
dragged my daughter away from the Earnhardt Jr. trailer long enough to see
if they were handing out free samples of cleaner. They were, and even had
the requisite pretty young lady doing her best Vanna White routine.
Unfortunately, the miniature sample bottles were of the "regular" Simple
Green and I was interested in the new aviation grade stuff. Never one to
give up easily on the possibility of a free hand out, I weaseled my way to
the front of the pack and asked the wanta-be Ms. Vanna if she had any
"Aviation grade Simple Green." After she rolled her eyes and looked at me
like I was from who knows where, she said, "No and I don't know what you
are talking about", and then quickly regained her composure and went to
handing out more regular bottles. I shrugged to my daughter and began to
turn away like a puppy with his tail between his legs when I saw a case of
the "Extreme Simple Green Aircraft and Precision Formula" stacked right
behind Vanna with a full sized 32 oz. bottle perched on top out in full
display splendor. I pointed and I said that's what I'm looking for. She
turned and had a blank look on her face. She didn't even know the stuff
existed. Anyway, another rep standing beside us said they didn't have any
free samples of the new stuff. But, then he asked if I was an aircraft
mechanic. I told him no... I own an airplane. He asked me what kind and
I said Piper Cherokee. He handed me the full new bottle and said go ahead
and try it. Wow, success! I brought my trophy prize home to try out on
my bird and was sorely disappointed. It didn't remove bugs off the
leading edge worth a darn. I tried it on a greasy spot and it worked
great, though. I tried it under the belly and to make a long story short,
I spent the next 15 minutes on my back with a rag, and 8437R's tummy never
shined so bright since her last new paint job years ago. It really works
great on belly grease and grime and fuel stains. It took me perhaps 1/5th
of the bottle to do 37R's belly. I'll buy more when I've used it up
because it made the nasty job really go quickly. Aircraft Spruce has it
for $10. It meets Boeing spec D6-1748P.

http://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalo...s/09-00809.php
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Joe Schneider
8437R
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I bought five gallons from www.quartzaviation.com for about $81 including
shipping. A nice feature of Simple Green Extreme is that it doesn't seem to
remove wax (or it leaves something else that beads up water).

Mike
MU-2