If you're going to spray a dry cloud near the carb inlets with the engine
running to ingest some bon ami - to abrasive polish any rust etc off the
cylinder walls, I would think you would not want any soap in there.
Don Elliott, 1958 TR3A
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Hill" <jrhill@chorus.net>
To: "fot" <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 5:13 AM
Subject: bon ami
> OK Bill, I went to the Bon Ami web page and learned that they sell two
kinds
> of cleaning powders:
>
> Bon Ami "Cleaning Powder", made to the original 1886 formula, consisting
of
> feldspar and soap.
>
> and
>
> Bon Ami "Cleanser", containing feldspar and calcite.
>
> So which of these is the preferred blend for automotive use?
>
> Jim Hill
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Babcock" <BillB@bnj.com>
> To: "riverside" <riverside@Cedar-Rapids.net>; "fot" <fot@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 4:42 PM
> Subject: RE: bon ami
>
>
> > As usual, the easiest way to check these things out is a quick Google
> > search, which yields lots of hits, including www.bonami.com . It will
> > probably excite many of you to know that not only do they make the same
> > cleansers with the same ingredients that they first manufactured in
1886,
> > the Faultless Starch/Bonami company owns numerous other brands including
> the
> > ever popular garden weasel. It is NOT Diatomaceous earth as I so
foolishly
> > stated, but Feldspar that makes Bon Ami so special. Further search
reveals
> > that Feldspar is a relatively soft silicate (a hardness of about 6),
> > frequently (but not exclusively) calcium sodium aluminum silicate.
> > . . . .
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