Can You Use Lighter Fluid To Clean Wood

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For cleaning guitars, where practise you buy lighter fluid?

• Thread starter arpegadream
• Beginning date May 21, 2020

• #21

Yes, very strong. Use it outdoors or in a place with a lot of ventilation.

The reason to use naphtha rather than other solvents is considering it is the lightest petroleum distillate. Information technology evaporates readily. This is one of the backdrop that makes it platonic for cleaning things. It dissolves crap and then evaporates chop-chop, leaving behind no residuum.

• #22

Goof Off is darn about the same stuff equally naphtha.
Meguiars makes a smashing one step cleaner\polish that really works bully on delicate archetype car lacquer, etc.

• #23

Naphtha isn't the lightest petroleum distillate. You have gasoline, propane, butane, marsh gas etc. It is lighter than diesel fuel.

• #24

I'm in California and I have used Coleman fuel on my 335. I have had no finish issues and accept had a great experience with it.

That beingness said, your mileage may vary, it may ruin the cease on your guitar, I am not endorsing it's use, etc, etc, etc...

• #25

I've never used annihilation but a soft, dry out cloth to make clean/polish my guitars. Works fine for me.

• #26

Naptha

At Domicile Depot, Ace Hardware, True Value, etc.

I hate to exist the one to tell you, but you spelled it differently than the tin can in the moving-picture show.
Al

• #27

Goof Off is darn most the same stuff every bit naphtha.
Meguiars makes a cracking one step cleaner\polish that really works groovy on delicate classic car lacquer, etc.

I don't know nigh "Goof Off", but I used to swear by a product chosen "Goo Gone", which I would have assumed is the same kind of stuff. I used it to remove the sticky residue left by labels and stuff similar that. Not to clean guitars, though. Anyway, I call up Goo Gone used to contain Naphtha or similar chemical and it worked great, simply they inverse the formula several years ago, eliminating the naphtha (replaced with orangish oil?), and now it inappreciably works at all. I now utilise Ronsonol lighter fluid for label residue. I've also used it sparingly to clean guitars, with no bad result.

• #28

Expert trivia question! I assumed it was barbecue lighter fluid, rather than cigarette lighter fluid. Are there any regarded opinions on this dodgy subject?

• #29

I wonder what they do in California and then. I'm sure there are other compounds that would work, merely finding out what they are, well...

For instance, I worked with lens elements in my former work that each could toll ten's of thousands of dollars and one of the cleaners I used was optics grade acetone, but you don't want to apply that on a home camera lens because it will melt the plastic around the drinking glass.

I'm in California. I use Naphtha.

https://www.stewmac.com/luthier-too...rtone-spraying-lacquer/colortone-naphtha.html

• #30

Practiced trivia question! I assumed it was charcoal-broil lighter fluid, rather than cigarette lighter fluid. Are there whatsoever regarded opinions on this dodgy subject?

Information technology was Zilch-type lighter fluid, or Naphtha. Every used it dorsum and so to clean their strings, I'm sure that's why Jimi had it with him already.
Al

• #31

You lot take to get it at the gettin' place.

Lwilliams

I don't play 7 strings. That would be too many.

• #32

I purchase the big bottles of Ronsonol lighter fluid at Walmart. I've been doing that for 30 years.

• #33

They keep information technology adjacent to the Mimosa root bark and lye at Home Depot. Ask one of the employees.

• #34

Exist careful with the rags or paper towels you use with the naphtha. They are EXTREMELY flammable and can actually self combust after you toss them them. You tin google the all-time manner to dispose of them.

I suppose it would exist hazardous waste besides. At my lab I worked at we had a special pail in rooms that had a stride on hat and it was for flammable stuff. Good head's up bro!

• #35

For the do good of lurkers, information technology might have different names in unlike countries. Here in Oz is is called Shellite.

• #36

I wonder simply how filthy something has to exist to demand to use it. In the book he says but slightly moistoned then even with water lightly moist won't mess up a guitar, but I'd utilize purified water/distilled h2o that is filtered and has no minerals in information technology.

I bought the v bottle kit from Dunlop and next time I do string changes I'll first utilise my brushes (I have electronics grade dusting brushes), so I'll wipe downwards with distilled water on a microfiber material, and then the polish and the wax. My guitars aren't all that dirty and they are cheap guitars with lots of character spots on them, but I tin't look to do a dainty work upwardly on them. I don't suppose I fifty-fifty demand naphtha right now, simply I do need a couple micofiber cloths.

Hither is a question: I accept some special Idiot box/Monitor cleaning jell, blue stuff with a cloth I've had for a few years. I wonder if that would exist good to use. It does evaporate but non fast and leaves no residue. Different h2o it leaves no spots. Obvious expert distilled water probably wouldn't leave spots either, but it's non every bit good a solvent.

I'd like some tips on:

What type of rag to use for h2o and/or Naphtha?

Just how you Do make them not catch burn and can you wash them afterward?

If indeed lighter fluid would be merely fine to use instead?

How do you make clean around cracks/fries so that wood doesn't go soaked or affected? And while on that topic, my friend'south Cort has a flake where the terminate might come off (the chip is a circule 1/2 separated), what syringe do you use and likewise do you employ CA glue? I have some Gorilla type CA like mucilage, would that work? I know it is off topic, but information technology's a finish question that ties in with cleaning risks.

• #37

The Hendrix method, place guitar on stage, employ copious amounts of lighter fluid and ignite. Whosh, all clean. Not recommended for a pristine stop.

YMMV

• #38

For those in California, you can get Naphta at www.shellac.net
Way cheaper than StewMac (they likewise sell the best shellac and seedlac you can find).
...and don't even try to go to paint stores, homedepot etc.... I tried tens of them, people didn't even know what naphta was.

• #39

Solvents are really just needed for bare/unfinished woods so that the bare wood doesn't blot the water in water based cleaners. For a sleeky finished surface you tin can pretty much use whatever you know to be safety with the type of clear coat that'south on the instrument.

• #twoscore

Be careful with the rags or paper towels y'all use with the naphtha. They are EXTREMELY combustible and can actually self combust later yous toss them them. You lot tin google the best way to dispose of them.

I apply them to light the charcoal grill and all my naptha is actually merely cheapo grill lighter fluid so it works out! If Im not going to grill for a while, I save the used/soaked paper towels in a fireproof container with the hat on in a safe surface area outdoors. Peradventure the lid shouldn't be tight but I've never had an explosion (YET)... LOL.

Concluding edited: May 25, 2020

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