You can wear away a lot of soft metal with a wire brush...I wouldn't
recommend it! What I've always used is ~lots~ of elbow grease and a
single-edged razor blade in a suitable holder. Not the fastest, but leaves
the surfaces relatively undamaged...
Jeff "Schmieraffe" Scarbrough
At 01:13 PM 2/23/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Wire brush attachment in a power hand drill!
>bstinocher@unipres.com wrote:
> >
> > I am in the middle of tearing the old gaskets off of my engine, and am
> having a
> > heck of a time getting the old gaskets to come off cleanly (after 20
> years, I
> > don't expect them to come off very well anyway). Anyway, I am currently
> soaking
> > them with WD40 and Liquid Wrench and then scraping like an idiot with a
> putty
> > knife to clean it off. Needless to say, I'm tired of scraping. Anything
> more
> > modern, short of sulphuric acid, that would loosen these things any better?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Bryan
>
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> -- Dave Weinbaum in National Enquirer
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