Acetone Cleaning?

[donafams]

when cleaning with acetone do you spray and wipe with a cloth or rag, or spray and just let it eveporate?

[slowdrive]

Re: Acetone Cleaning?

I have been buying the 1lb box of lint free rags at Menards to wipe with.

[nuttyman]

Re: Acetone Cleaning?

wipe 'em & as said use lint free cloths.

[chromo]

Re: Acetone Cleaning?

I've seen allot said on this, from wiping with a rag soaked in Acetone to spraying it. Those who do it a certain way like that way, but seems allot of ways.

One thing I think about is if you spray a part to disolve oils or grease, then when the spray dries where does the oils and grease go?? I would wipe down the part while wet myself!
The thing is acetone evaporates off the parts but oils don't evaporate so they have to still be there somewhere I think, maybe ran down to the lowest corner, perhaps dripped off, perhaps not, depending how wet sprayed.
Wiping with a clean dry lint free rag while the part is wet should wipe off the oils etc.. then the acetone left behind should evaporate.

I think I like wiping with a wet acetone rag better than spraying so far myself, but I'm still new also. With the old fancy paint jobs I felt the same way though, wipe with a wet prepsol rag and a dry clean rag, I did not trust just spraying a solvent and letting it evaporate then either! Ols wax on old paint would disolve with the prep, but if the prep evaporated the wax was still on the car, I feel the same about oils on metal.

[Banditperformance]

Re: Acetone Cleaning?

Usually I use enough acetone to Flush the contaminants off the part.