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Freeing up frozen locks?

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So my locks for my helmet holders and bags are frozen solid. Already tried a little wd40 and nothing. Any ideas?
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Acetone and trans fluid instead of WD and lots O patience.. Another product I am a huge fan of is KROIL but the acetone and trans is very good. Patience and try a little each day . do not force or you will loose
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So just kinda drip it in there and let it sit?
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So just kinda drip it in there and let it sit?
Yup, IIRC the acetone transmission fluid which has been used with amazing results with various folks on this forum is a 50/50 mix. BTW WD-40 isn't a very good rust solvent.
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It's actually not too hard to disassemble the helmet lock. It'd be easier to loosen things up if apart. But the acetone/atf mix is a pretty good 'liquid wrench'. After it's free, I'd give it a squirt of Lock-ease.
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I have an old crock-pot that I bought for $5 from a garage sale that I use in the garage to cook parts overnight. Vinegar helps remove rust. Or add lemon juice to remove grease, grime, old lacquered fuel. I cooked some dirty old CB200 carbs and they came out spotless.
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I use PB Blaster for all kinds of stuff around the shop and home. I squirt a bit right into the lock and some on any moving part I can see. It penetrates well and leaves behind an oil that smells like Marvel Mystery Oil. I think it's a lot cheaper and easier to find than Kroil.

I've used acetone and Auto trans fluid before but found it no better or worse than PB Blaster.
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warhead_71 wrote:I have an old crock-pot that I bought for $5 from a garage sale that I use in the garage to cook parts overnight. Vinegar helps remove rust. Or add lemon juice to remove grease, grime, old lacquered fuel. I cooked some dirty old CB200 carbs and they came out spotless.
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On caution on the lemon juice; it may discolor/darken some metals, especially carb bodies (by experience). I like the crock pot idea, though!
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I like the crock pot idea. What do you put in the pot for a cleaner? I imagine water and some Pine-Sol?
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jdvorchak wrote:I like the crock pot idea. What do you put in the pot for a cleaner? I imagine water and some Pine-Sol?
I agree , it does sound like a good idea, especially if you don't have an ultrasonic cleaner with a heater function.
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I've been wanting a new slow cooker for a while. The old crock pot I have must be 20 or 30 years old and only gets up to 200 Deg F.
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Yes too much lemon juice will discolor/darken aluminum. I only add a "splash" of lemon juice, a good squirt of dish soap, then fill the rest with water in my 3-quart pot. Seems to do the trick on carbs, and I don't notice much color change. Plain water also works, it just takes a lot longer to break down the gunk.

I started using a Crock-Pot because I have a 100-year-old house that had solid wood doors that I was stripping and re-staining to original... they had been painted over, maybe 5-6 coats. And they painted over all of the hardware too: brass hinges and brass/glass doorknobs.

I can throw the hardware in the Crock-Pot on "high" overnight and in the morning the old paint just wipes/slides right off in big pieces -- minimal scrubbing with a plastic brush. I preferred this to my other options: using a heat gun it's really hard to handle brass when it gets hot, and the paint just gets gummy; using chemical strippers might etch the brass, is expensive, and stinks; using scrapers/wire brush makes a lot of dust and leaves swirls/scratches all over it.

** Just checked out YouTube and I see this guy is using anti-freeze... looks like it works wonders on old RC model airplane engines. And he even strains out the dirty anti-freeze when he's done to re-use it over and over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCTQK9aKpr0
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Be wary of how hot you get the lemon juice mix. I boiled a set of carbs in a lemon juice/water mix, they came out pretty good however the boiling lemon juice stunk the entire house up. If I ever try it again I'll be doing it outside.
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