Another cleaning question

[SteveH]

Was gonna get me a bottle of Simple Green, following comments on this forum, to clean up my Stihl. Then I ran across this Citr-Solv of my wife's under the kitchen sink. I hate the smell, but anyone use this on their saw and how did it work??

 

[18watt]

I've used Citrus degreasers before-they'll work fine. Just rinse very well and lubricate the saw immediately afterwards. Most of the time, I just manually clean and sort of brush out the bar/chain and oil well.

 

[SteveH]

I'll give it a try, then. What I'm cleaning is the outside of the saw, all the gunk I haven't even reduced with gas and a rag. I'm willing to buy something else, but the Citra-Solv is sitting there beneath the sink anyway. It did, now that I think of it, remove fresh road tar from my pickup's doors and side panels. I had forgotten about that.