I sprayed my painted rear caliper with brake cleaner and I watched how the paint got wrinkled and ruined... I then wiped it all off with a rag!! Good thing that I had some extra paint and fixed it but it was frustrating...

 

read the label on the brake cleaner - it should clearly say not to use with painted surfaces.

 

Watch out on your shocks, too. I was cleaning some grease off my rotors after replacing some suspension stuff and decided to spray some on my GAB super-R shocks to clean them off a bit. The stream of fluid dripping down started to run red! Fortunately, the paint must be pretty thick because there aren't any "bald spots" on the shock body.

-Max

 

Yea it don't take a genius... solvent + paint = no paint

 

Some brands of brake cleaner "eat" paint and some don't. My calipers are painted with Testor's model paint and had always been fine after repeated use of brake cleaner. I then bought a different brand of cleaner and it dissolved the paint nearly instantly. Damn!

 

^^^ Mine are painted with Testor's model paint too! That's why it was so easy to paint it again

 

ha, i used brakleen to remove the overspray on my rotor when i painted my calipers. yeah, it just turned dried paint to liquid instantly.

 

I could be wrong but the chlorinated cleaners most likely eat paint. The non-chlorinated ones should be paint safe.

 

I was at the auto parts store recently buying brake cleaner. I was looking at two different cleaners from CRC. One was red, the other was green. The cans say exactly the same things (non-chlorinated, etc.) and I couldn't find any difference. Does anyone know if there is a difference between red and green CRC Brakleen brake cleaners?

Wait, this says red is chlorinated (see page 3):
http://www.pca.state.mn.us/waste/pubs/4_10.pdf

But I swear both bottles said "non-chlorinated" when I was looking at them. Weird.

The last post in this thread (about Lava Lamps?) seems to indicate that I am not crazy (except maybe for trusting a Lava Lamp message board):
http://www.archibot.com/dcforum_oozi...umID3/265.html

-Max