Topic: Hondabond 4 vs Permatex ultra grey

[drumstyx]

You know I bought a car in California several years ago now and they required a clear decal on the window warning you that cars contained substance found by California to contribute to or cause cancer and it was notifying anyone who operated or rode in one of those risks...

Good thing our Motorcycles don't have those nasty things associated with them....

You can't even buy a good can of carb dip or proper spray paints or a host of other useful chemicals like MEK and others there without a license and release of liability.

I am surprised they still allow Harley in the state given their propensity to mark territory where they park or stopped with a known carcinogenic liquid.

It's similar in Canada. One gallon of methylene chloride cost me $80CAD. I bought it to mix with xylene as an approximation of the berryman carb dip we can't get here.

[flybox1]

Acetone leaves less of an oily residue than Xylene.  This might make it a better substance for cleaning mating surfaces.
I have cans both, as I use xylene to clean my expensive brushes of two-part epoxy used in fly rod building.
Xylene does not clean up in water.  Spill drops on the driveway and let it evap.  A water rinse will still bead up there on the residue.
This does not happen with Acetone.

[DaveBarbier]

loctite 518

+1 I like working with this stuff. Easy to apply and won't cure until it's between the flanges so you have infinite time to assemble. Remains a somewhat tacky goo, like snot (not that I play with that that often), so any stuff that oozes out inside the motor can't block any passages. Good stuff.