Your Preferred Simple Green?


 
Good to know, never know with some plastics and corrosive cleaners. My kitchen table learned that the hard way when my daughter 18 at the time poured nail polish remover into a red solo cup. 😡
 
Seems like a lot of money to spend on cleaner. If it does all the work for you I guess I can't blame you for going that route.
 
For me, I wouldn't say it did all the work, but it makes getting old grates looking brand new substantially quicker/easier. Not everything came off, but I wouldn't hesitate to do large batches of them again.
 
For me I don't really soak anything. For grates I just wire wheel them first and then use just a little simple green and Dawn dish soap to get any remaining oily residue off.

No doubt always lots of different ways to do things though and come up with excellent results.

The 1 gallon jug of Simple Green costs about $5 and lasts me through several Restorations
 
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Josh Dekubber said:
For me I don't really soak anything. For grates I just wire wheel them first and then use just a little simple green and Dawn dish soap to get any remaining oily residue off.

No doubt always lots of different ways to do things though and come up with excellent results.

The 5 gallon jug of Simple Green costs about $5 and lasts me through several Restorations
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Yes, Josh, but I still can't get results like yours no matter how long I wire brush and degrease!
 
Josh Dekubber said:
For me I don't really soak anything. For grates I just wire wheel them first and then use just a little simple green and Dawn dish soap to get any remaining oily residue off.

No doubt always lots of different ways to do things though and come up with excellent results.

The 5 gallon jug of Simple Green costs about $5 and lasts me through several Restorations
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Where do you get simple green that cheap?! Im ordering simple green for that $$
 
Simple Green is plenty strong for me and the price is good and it's environmentally safe. I haven't done a lot of comparisons though cuz I don't really rely on cleaners to do the work for me. I'm not saying that one way is better than the other I just do things a little differently most of the time LOL.

For instance I hate dishwashing machines. I think they are a waste of time. I just want to wash my dishes put them away and be done with it. I call our dishwasher the dirty dish storage facility and it drives me crazy. Yep I'm a little different 🤪
 
Work harder not smarter? lol, the way you seem to love grinding those cookboxes makes me wish I was that determined. But after years of grinding rust clouds in my face, I am happy to pay a fee to have that done. The grates aren't as bad, but I have found the soaking helps a lot with the harder to reach areas in the little crevices.

When you said 5 gallons I was thinking bucket. Menards usually runs some good sales on Zep and Simple Green, plus when they have the 11% rebate, I stock up when it goes on sale.
 
I guess to me it is working smarter not to waste my time and $. I guess I don't have the patience to wait to soak something to get it maybe a little less difficult to clean. Its not a big deal to me. I would rather just get it done. As far as sending my cook boxes and end caps out. The main reason I don't do that is because I want to perform the restoration work myself. If I found a place that would let me do my own sandblasting and powder coating I'd be all about it. I don't at all mind putting in the work and getting my hands dirty.

I understand it's different for everybody but if I'm mostly just disassembling and reassembling with somebody else doing the work that's not really me performing a restoration. At least that's how I feel about my own. That part might not be important to everybody and that's okay too.
 
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