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    cleaning varnish and tar off copper wore and painted A/C tubbing ?

    I have about 50 lbs of 3rd wire #1 (varnished) and 25 lb of painted #1 A/C and compressor tubbing. My yard pays substancually less for the varnished/painted copper, so need a solution. amd preferably not $15 dollar a gallon, varnish remover. lol Itried muratic acid it ate all the copper and left the varnish



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    Well, I do know you can filter and re-use most things like paint thinner and varnish remover. Might not hurt to just buy a gallon of it, and run it through some filters. Especially if you get varnished copper often enough.

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    Toilet bowl cleaner works. Wear plastic gloves.
    People may laugh at me, but that's ok. I laugh all the way to the bank.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mick View Post
    Toilet bowl cleaner works. Wear plastic gloves.
    I've also used oven cleaner!

    I've used so much stuff on my scrapping I have nothing left to clean my house with! lol!!

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    I've heard you can clean nasty burnt-on stuff off of oven racks or grill racks, by spraying racks with oven cleaner and then putting them inside a black garbage bag in the sun for several hours. Then they rinse clean.

    That might work for the wire, too, but you'd need a good place for rinsing. Wear gloves and stay out of the fumes. I used oven cleaner to remove lettering & logos from a concession trailer once. Worked well.


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