Thread: opinions please

originally breaklen was basically dry cleaning fluid and just dissolved oil and grease. i used to buy the pure stuff and use it on belts/rollers/ etc in cassette decks and turntables (look it up you young guys)
then it turned into a detergent based product.

Originally Posted by gonetropo

originally breaklen was basically dry cleaning fluid and just dissolved oil and grease. i used to buy the pure stuff and use it on belts/rollers/ etc in cassette decks and turntables (look it up you young guys)
then it turned into a detergent based product.

Yeah pretty evil shit. Main ingredient was tetrachloroethylene, not something you want in your eyes.
When we were manufacturing the brakleen 600g aerosols they would have 586 grams of liquid product in the can then had 16-18 grams of CO2 gas pressed into it. That CO2 was around 300cc and if it wasn't warm enough it would be a liquid instead of gas and the cans exploded in the filling machine rather spectacularly.