Bruce
TVWBB 2-Star Olympian
I know there are several prevailing methods for dealing with the crud on knobs, thermoset tables, shelf ends and other vinyl parts on rehab grills. I have been using a bleach water solution with good results, but today I was working on my next project (Silver B) with thermoset tables. I bought a gallon of Simple green earlier this year, and it came with a spray bottle full of another Simple Green product shrink wrapped to it: Simple Green Clean Finish® Disinfectant Cleaner
I decided to give it a try on the parts I normally clean up with the bleach water solution. It knocked everything out of the park. I can't say the tables and knobs and such were in horrible shape, but they had the typical grease, rust stains black marks and other marks that you typically see on thermoset and vinyl parts on these grills. I assume it is also a lot easier on skin and the environment than bleach.
So, it might be something you want to give a try. Actually, I might even try it on some other parts, like cleaning up the lid, inside and out. But, I think I will be keeping a bottle of it in my arsenal from now on.
Hopefully I get this current grill project done in the next week or so. I still have to grind off the inside and outside of the fire box and the end caps and clean the lid. Then I can repaint and get it all back together and I will post some photos if I remember.
I decided to give it a try on the parts I normally clean up with the bleach water solution. It knocked everything out of the park. I can't say the tables and knobs and such were in horrible shape, but they had the typical grease, rust stains black marks and other marks that you typically see on thermoset and vinyl parts on these grills. I assume it is also a lot easier on skin and the environment than bleach.
So, it might be something you want to give a try. Actually, I might even try it on some other parts, like cleaning up the lid, inside and out. But, I think I will be keeping a bottle of it in my arsenal from now on.
Hopefully I get this current grill project done in the next week or so. I still have to grind off the inside and outside of the fire box and the end caps and clean the lid. Then I can repaint and get it all back together and I will post some photos if I remember.