2001SSTBanshee Posted November 2, 2003 Report Share Posted November 2, 2003 Simple Green can be corrosive to aluminum! DOD testing is good enough for me. http://www.chinook-helicopter.com/maintena...s/cleaners.html There's a lot of aluiminum on our bikes, not to mention high dollar billet parts!! I USED to use it too, but now Im back to spending a couple bucks more for the "suzuki bike wash". It actually does a better job too. Just thought I'd let everyone know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cotton eyed Joe Posted November 2, 2003 Report Share Posted November 2, 2003 OH YEAH! I Experienced this first hand when I started my billet aluminum Banshee parts company. I "rough" polished a bunch of parts, then cleaned the buffing residue off with Simple Green. Then I final polished them, cleaned all the residue off again with Simple Green, and then sat them on my bench because I was going to wrap them up in the morning. I come into the shop in the morning, and all of my parts have this brown shit looking oxide on them. I had to rebuff every single part, and since then I only use Simple Green on stuff that I don't need to be polished. Its an excellent cleaner, its just a too alkaline for aluminum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fixitrod Posted November 2, 2003 Report Share Posted November 2, 2003 Great info.... I use simple green all the time. I don't have billet so I didn't notice. Thanks !!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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