mvigod

What does everyone here use at the end of the day to clean their plane up. I've read all kinds of solutions from windex to 409 to custom mixes with ammonia or alcohol.

Curious what gets the grease off and is nice to all your planes?

Nathan

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I was given a tip to use baby wipes. Now... before you start laughing, try it. I use window cleaner without ammonia at the field, then baby wipes when I get home. No residue, no smearing, shines it up nice, and it smells good too

GrnBrt

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I use a cleaner that I get at Costco called Spryway and it really does a good job. It's white foam and it sure does cut the crud. Now ammonia is not good for monokote as it will over time break it down.

maac16324

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50% water, 30% sudsy amonia, 20% alcohol.

Works great and doesn't cost much.

djlyon

Vons generic window cleaner. It doesn't have any of the stuff that leaves a film on your plane and cuts the oil well.

Hawk-RCU

I have my best luck with rubbing alcholol. I mostly use 97% because it evaporates very quickly.

KingAirJockey

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I use regular windex to get the heavy stuff off,then to finish it I've found that eagle one wetshine or meguires final finish both do a great job of cleaning and leaving a waxed look on the film covered airplanes.These products are meant to be used on cars in between washings to keep them looking "just waxed"

BladeRunner

I just use my kids!!! hehehe----------BladeRunner.

dwsc

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50/50 alcohol and h2o

works for me

wgeffon

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Baby Wipes for me. Nothing cuts the grease like they do.
Windex to get the streaks off after the baby wipes.
If I am going to fly a plane again soon. I just use the baby wipes.

Nathan

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Wanna know where I got my tip from?
Ever see his airplane lineup?

LSP972

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Guys, you need to LOSE the ammonia, right away. Ammonia, and it's vapors, attacks and degrades, very quickly, the gold plating on radio components. The results of that should be self-evident.

I use Glass Plus "Streak Free"- this is the only commercial window cleaner I could find WITHOUT ammonia.

Steve

Chris 540

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I use Simple Green with good results.

taildraggin'

Saw a thread some while back where A. M. Cross recomended a product made by 3-M (and others) called miricale cloth. These are a micro fiber cloths about a foot square that take all the gunk of the surface very quickly. Sounds impossible, but I've been using them for a long while and they work great! When they get too loaded up..throw them in the wash and they are good as new. Got mine at Wal-mart.

Hircflyer

99 cent a gallon (on sale) windshield washer fluid, with 1/2 teaspoon of Dawn dish soap. I use the kind that doesn't have the winterizing agent in it.

Works really well, wipes off with no streakes.

DGrant

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409glass/surface cleaner. All planes are Monokote/film, and this cleaner is tough enough to clean the oil, but not too tough that it streaks all over the place.
It might depend what set-up you have too, as far as the engine/airframe combos, style and deflection of exhaust. Reason I mention it, is I fly mostly 4strokes nowadays, however have a DagoRed with a .75 2stroke. Now, the 4stroke planes clean up real nice(like new) in very short order, whereas the Dago and a few others I have(come to think about it) take quite a bit longer to detail, there is alot more oil to deal with it seems.

Tex Pilot

I use the $1 a bottle stuff that does not have amonia from Dollar General...... or Dollar Saver. It lasts a long time and I don't mind using it on straight stream to blast clean the cowl and engine area.

brc007

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Thanks Steve I did not know that.

I will start using the Glass Plus, I already use it for windows!

Cactus.

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baby wet wipes in the round plastic tubs, work a treat and the sealed tub ones dun dry out. 80p for 100, 7-8 months flying there, brill

flying2bill

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What's this clean planes thing? It's obvious to me you guys havn't discovered the 2nd best reason to switch to gas. Now sprucing up for a show or something, windshield washer and a teaspoon of Dawn

DavidAgar

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Simple Green does the best for me, and I have tryed a bunch of them.

LSP972

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Tried the gas gig, Bill. Several reasons why I switched BACK to glow power:

1. I store my models in the house. In no time, my hobby room smelled like my store room, where I keep the lawn mower, weed eater, etc.

2. Same deal with the gas jug; I got real tired, real quick, of smelling it in my Explorer on the way to the field. I tried several air-tight containers to keep my DuBro fuel jug in; they would pop the fittings loose due to the fumes and pressure build-up; not to mention the fire hazard from the pent-up fumes.

3. I got tired of dragging a fire extinguisher along to the field.

Yeah, I'm also tired of paying larcenous prices for glow fuel. But I would spend that money on something else, and I get great, trouble-free service from my glow engines- with no stink or hassles.

Steve

2thelmt

Spray 9, dilluted. Cleans almost anything.

STUKA BARRY

WHAT WORKS BEST FOR ME IS WINDEX WITH VINEGAR (NOT AMMONIA) AND CUT IT 50% WITH DENATURED ALC. IT GETS ALL THE GREASE AND DIRT AND LEAVES A NICE SHINE WITHOUT STREAKING. I HAVE TO BE HONEST THOUGH, I FLY GIANT GAS ENGINES AND THEY LEAVE NO MESS TO CLEAN UP. THERE IS A LITTLE EXHAUST RESIDUE, BUT I CAN CLEAN A GIANT 100" WARBIRD WITH ONE PAPER TOWEL SHEET. MY CLEANING MIXTURE DOES WORK WELL EVEN ON MESSY GLOW ENGINES.

magnum

50% Diluted Simply Green, works great..