Doug
The best thing I found for Muroc dust was to Spray on simple green with a
Hudson sprayer, 50% water 50% Simple green. Let it soak for awhile and then
rinse real well. It took two wash and rinses to make it clean. The bottom
side was a bitch. Never took the motorhome out there again.
I am a real believer in Simple Green as it's biodegradable
and a good cleaning agent for most anything.
Glen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Odom" <dlodom@charter.net>
To: "Wester Potter" <wester6935@comcast.net>
Cc: "list LSR" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 12:26 PM
Subject: Re: Dust?
> Wes, Having raced at Muroc, El Mirage and Lake Gairdner, also AMA
> motorcycles in the desert I guess I know a little about dust. Muroc dust
> is the very worst of any I have ever seen. Air won't blow it off and even
> water from a hose won't wash it off. Its like talc powder and you have to
> wipe it off with a damp rag. The road to Gairdner is very much like the
> road to Callaways at El Mirage but much longer trip. Like most dirt roads
> in the desert there will be places that are sandy, hard like DG and places
> that are red from the iron ore. You turn off the paved highway at a place
> called Iron Knob because of the huge mound of iron ore that is there. It
> was not a very hard thing to clean up the car and the motor home when we
> were there. They have a place at the edge of the lake where you stop and
> wash the dust off your vehicle going onto the lake and the salt off coming
> back. Kind of over kill for as big as that lake is but that is their
> rules. Doug Odom in big ditch looking forward to going back next year.
>
> Wester Potter wrote:
>
>> After seeing Jon's photos of the bikes as they arrived at the camp at
>> Lake Gairdner I was wondering how different that was from the dust at el
>> Mirage? I may have to take a trip to one of the lakes meets just to get
>> my questions answered. I've seen Terry's liner after it had been down to
>> el Mirage and I've seen roadsters on the salt that have not been cleaned
>> up very well after the lakes meets so I have an inkling of what we're
>> seeing in those photos. I guess what I'm asking is how different is the
>> dust in the way it holds on?
>>
>> Wes
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