what's a "non-flammable cleaning solvent"

I have a Suzuki OEM sponge-type air-filter on my RG500 Gamma and
wondering what I should clean it with...does soapy water class as NF
cleaning solvent?!
It's been along time since I did it but not sure if I want to be getting
water on this thing or at least would want to thoroughly dry it
afterwards.
I have a spray-can of sticky filter-oil designed for car pod-filters
which are paper filter based - is that suitable for this sponge filters
or should I just use motor oil to dampen it?

 

normally a good quality detergent/ water/rinse and some good sun / wind
dry then add the spray

 

normally a good quality detergent/ water/rinse and some good sun / wind
dry then add the spray[/QUOTE]

Thanks, that's what I had in mind...and didn't think much of until my
old man started going off about not using water...WTF?! I asked him what
he cleaned it with before I bought bike from him, reply "couldn't
remember."

 

Or, contrary to topic, just use kero, let it dry out then use your filter
oil.

 

Water.

 

Yep, that always worked for my Briggs & Stratton!
Clem
(Why does it have to be non-flammable anyway?)

 

Maybe 'cos some flammable things will eat the foam, and
it's easier just to be all-encompassing than to provide
a detailed list?

G

 

Really?

How is flammability related to "eating" ability?

Hammo

 

Well, you flame a lot, and I've seen you eat, therefore He's a DUCK!!!!

 

What the duck needs is something that is inflammable.

 

It always bugged me as a kid that flammable and inflammable meant the same
thing (shut up Hamish!).

 

I thought inflammable was the stuff that will ignite and burn like
petrol hence more volatile.
Whereas flammable is something that will burn, like wood less volatile.
Hammo?

 

It is not, except insofar as many flammable things also
happen to have "eating" ability. Fergawdssakes, can't you
read?

G

 

Now you're just being inflammatory.

G

 

Bugger,

Got me with logic.

Hammo

 

Hammo is a duck (ask Smack!).

Hammo

Oh the question, I'd go with synonyms.

 

I can read, most of the time. Just wanted to know if it was the polarity
(or lack thereof) of a solvent that made it flammable and therefore
eatable?!

I like to learn new skills. One day, I'm going to do microwave cookery.

Hammo

 

Oh, ok. I just assumed, since it's Harsh Week 'n' all that
you were doing a Nev at me. I'm terribly sorry about that
(unless it's not acceptable to apologise during harsh week,
in which case you can get f*cked!).

Oh, I did that already. Way way back in a high school cookery
class. We got to stand around and watch whilst the teacher
demonstrated the inagural microwave to us. (It was the first
ever, and brand new - there was no way we grubby mitted students
would be allowed to touch it).

So she cooked various bits of stuff, experimenting mostly.
The lesson was going pretty well right up until the bit where
I nudged the bloke next to me and suggested that he ask her
to show us how to boil an egg in a microwave.

She took the request, retrieved an egg, set it all up, explaining
that an egg was a difficult task, needed to be pierced at one
end, submerged in water, etc, otherwise it would...


... explode.


The bloke next to me got assigned the task of cleaning the
egg out of the microwave. He seemed to think that it was a
fair cop, given the giggle we'd all gotten out of it.


So yeah, that's what I know about microwave cookery. Get the
bloke standing next to you to do the talking. (Oh, and if
the bloke standing next to you looks like one of those sly
pricks who reads up on stuff in advance, tell him to make
his own damned suggestions in class!)


HTH, HAND,


G

 

The ones from the North Pole will rotate clockwise.

I just learned how to make sushi rolls.

Theo

 

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Spit.

Gary (saliva to the pedants)