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Originally Posted by WCF720
It's like paint strippers too; if it's "environmentally friendly", or "green" it's guaranteed to suck.
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I hear that! Back when I first enlisted in the Navy, we had a solvent tank full of this nasty ass stuff that would cause you to just about hallucinate if you had it on your skin for long enough. Bad shite, but you couldn't beat it for busting grease off aircraft parts. A year or so later, they switched to some enviro-friendly hippy-crap stuff, and it didn't work worth a piss!
There are things in life worth paying good money for, here's my short list:
Toilet paper: quilted please, the comfort of my buttonhole is of utmost importance!
Chemicals/paint: if you get the cheap crap, you'll work twice as hard to finish the job.
Electronic parts: because if it fails, it seldom goes alone or quietly... This mostly applies to capacitors, but everything can fall into the category.
Engine parts: particularly internals, since no one likes to see a cheap Chinese connecting rod peering back at you through the block. I work with air cooled VW's, and skimping on internal parts is a pet peeve. Sometimes you don't have a choice, but if you have the cash buy American every time!