Sometimes the old fixes are the best

[bungeejumper]

Just taught the wife something she didn't know. She was trying to clean up some badly tarnished brass door fixings - letterboxes, doorknobs and other stuff - and was making rather heavy weather of it with the Brasso. I suggested she might like to try something from the garage. Solvol Autosol....

OMG, she said (or words to that effect), I never knew you could get anything like this. How long has this magic stuff been out?

Oh, about half a century, I said. I bought my first tube in 1966. (In fact the company's website says it's been around since 1929, but that might be just the company, not the product.) Our grotty old motorbikes just wouldn't have been the same without it. And we certainly couldn't have persuaded so many girls to climb onto the pillion seat.

Whoops, maybe I shouldn't have said that bit?

BJ

[quelquod]

Ah yes - the days!

Great stuff for turning a rusty exhaust into a shining semi-chromed adornment (until the next run in the rain of course ). I still have half a tube in the garage along with my Gunk and Simoniz.

[MonsterMork]

Squidged out the last of a twenty year old tube of Solvol a few weeks back. Hadn't used it for at least 5 years. Still did exactly wot it said on the tin as if it was brand new.

For polishing ally, such as bike engine cases and wheels, then Belgom Alu is the mutts danglies

[Philanthropissed]

Solvol Autosol can also be handy for cleaning up plastic headlight covers, Mine were getting to an MOT Fail level of opacity, Solvol cleaned 'em off enough to pass.

[Diziet]

Where do you buy this miracle item?

[redsturgeon]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Autosol-Solvo ... 0925147531


John

[Diziet]

Thanks John!