[CR] Secrets for cleaning dirty bike parts

(Example: Component Manufacturers:Avocet)

Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:56:32 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Reperages Velo" <reperagesvelo@yahoo.fr>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR] Secrets for cleaning dirty bike parts


Hi,

It is probably a waste of time to ask this, because my inability to clean parts properly is probably genetic, however, I was noticing on other people's listing they had nice clean parts.

I do have a distinct memory of regular comments on how dirty my bike was when I raced.  Perhaps this is a trait of mine which I am not able to get around.

How do people get their parts so clean?  Do they throw them in solvent baths like we used to before we understood the health risks (not to mention damage to any plastic parts).  My dirty tooth brush sprayed with wd40 and dirty cleaning cloths don't seem to do the same.  Is there a magic cleaning fairy, or do people spend hundreds of hours on this task?

Please enlighten me, I am a little dim.  I am the one who didn't understand until I was over 30 that the reason other women's make up stayed on all day and mine didn't is because they reapplied through out the day, and I couldn't be bothered.
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