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Even if you manage to release the liquid from its storage container, it instantly turns to gas while also cooling down.
Actually I think it may be a combination of the solvent quality and the blast of the compressed gas. Happy to be proved wrong if someone wants to try it out.I wholeheartedly agree that naphtha is the best liquid solvent, but an advantage of almost instant evaporation is fire safety - I once had some interesting smoke and flame effects from an old Minitrix pacific which I had cleaned 10 mins before putting it on the track.
[size=0px]I'm just curious how you get to release the butane from the bottle since the tip is designed to be inserted into the filling port of a lighter. It would be very awkward to try to get it to squirt out the liquid[/size][/size]I just found another clean rattle can nozzle to fit on a camping gas can, which disperses at [/size]90°. It also helps to use those small tubes which come with WD40 etc to really get into the guts of the beast.Don't you have a collection of nozzles?
Isopropyl alcohol is great at this orrr the Purple Stuff.
I would recommend against Purple Power or clones like Purple Stuff. Yes, it removes grease, but is caustic, so it can attack aluminum and other metals, and it is also used by many modelers (like me) to strip paint from plastic models. It is also damaging to human skin (rubber gloves are highly recommended when using that stuff).
I just soak it in cider.