Mailman’s XS2 a full on restoration

HF got lots of my $$ too.......and now that they opened a store in town, well, I'm just sayin' been there
and bought lots more 'stuff'. All the tools I bought still work for me.
 
Bob, your rubber restoration got my interest. Lotta confusing info out there on the net. Seems that it boils down to two issues, what softens the rubber, which one keeps it soft. Generally agreed that petroleum based products can do long-term harm, silicone is okay. And, being that natural rubber is plant-based, using plant-based oils like castor oil and wintergreen oil is okay.

An excerpt of the MSDS for Simple Green shows that it's mostly water, with surfactants and citrus.
MSDS-SimpleGreen.jpg


An excerpt of the MSDS for WD-40 Specialist Silicone shows that it has very little silicone, largely petroleum based products.
MSDS-WD40-Silicone.jpg


So, recommend checking the long-term condition of your softened rubber.

Maybe this is one of the Youtube vids you mentioned:

 
You may very well be right in your assessment, regarding how long the effect lasts. If the effects wear off, then there is nothing lost in the effort. All of those rubber bits were brittle anyways.

And yes, that is the video I was referring to. There are a LOT of rubber restoration videos on YouTube that are just a crock, but that guy took a very scientific approach to his test methods.
By the way, I had planned originally to go with the wintergreen oil and alcohol. That wintergreen oil is usually sold in very small bottles for lots of money. They use it for aroma therapy. However, I found a place online, a feed and tack store that sells it for horse liniment, a big bottle of pure wintergreen oil for about $13.
 
This is what we are charged for a 1 (US) Gallon of Simple green from our Amazon Australia
Simple green.png


In US Amazon, 5 Gallons at a 1/10th of the price
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Mailman said:
By the way, I had planned originally to go with the wintergreen oil and alcohol. That wintergreen oil is usually sold in very small bottles for lots of money. They use it for aroma therapy. However, I found a place online, a feed and tack store that sells it for horse liniment, a big bottle of pure wintergreen oil for about $13.
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Allison sez most horse liniment has a lot of alcohol.
 
GOOD GRIEF.!!!! Hardly describes it..............Profit margins are ridiculous over here. Used to be able to buy $1000 worth of goods from overseas with out having to pay the Goods and Service Tax, (GST 10%). Business lobbied and succeeded in convincing the Gov't to remove the threshold to Zero, because it was causing hardship, and add the GST Tax on all purchases from Overseas. ...............Gotta pay for the sunshine some how
 
Hey bob could you take a shot in the mouth with your slide down all the way? (carb mouth with a camera) :redface: doing some year to year BS38 slide comparisons.
 
I went to wally world and have a carb buzzing in the Old HF USC with simple green and water. Hint; you don't need to wait for the cycle to end to bump it back up to 480.
 

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