garage goat2

I wanted to warn everybody about the gallon cans of carb cleaner. I had one eat a hole thru the bottom of itself and leak all over. Now this can was probably 9 - 14 years old , yet it let go on me!

So if you have a can of this please be careful of it.

Indy_68_S

Get rid of old cans...particularly aerosols.

Had a similar situation myself.
Had an old can of RAID wasp spray sitting on a shelf in the garage. Been there for years. Was in & out of garage one afternoon doing yardwork.
Walk around corner toward garage and and heard 'sssshhh'.
Can had sprung a leak on the side about 1/2 inch from the bottom and was spraying an arc of bug killer about 3 feet out from shelf.

Luckily wife's car was out or it would've been hosing the side of it.

CRUZN 66

X2... Fortunately in my case I started smelling it before it became a major mess... I placed the can of cleaner inside another larger can and placed it outside in my storage area where it can't do much harm...

jensenracing77

X3, I had a can that was only a year or two old do the same thing. Leaked all over my workbench.

wr1970

I don't think it eats threw plastic.

MDchanic

Yes, carb cleaner will eat through metal, but not plastic.

I'm moving, and just discovered a hole in the top of an empty gallon can of trichloroethylene.
I paid $5 for the damn thing at a flea market.
Must've taken a year for it all to evaporate.
Good thing I've got another couple or 'em.

PIA.

- Eric

Ozzie

It depends on which liquid and which plastic.

MDchanic

I'm thinking about my statement just a moment ago.

What Ozzie said was correct.

Real carburetor cleaner WILL eat through plastic very quickly, and will eat through metal, as well, but much more slowly.

It will not eat through glass, but glass is not an economically viable shipping and storage medium, mostly because it's easy to break, and a bunch of broken glass bottles of corrosive gunk would be a hazmat nightmare for a trucking company.

So, yeah, it eats through metal, but metal is pretty much the best you're going to get for this stuff.

- Eric

steverw

I put 2 gallons of Berrymans carb dip type cleaner in a 3 gallon plastic/paint bucket recently. I think its ok, but now you have me thinkin. Ill check on that. Got the bucket at either Lowes or Home Depot, its big enough to put a carb in.