I had no bad intentions in what I said sorry to have offended you, if I did. What are you talking about with amputation? Doesnt the brake cleaner clean the feathers free of dust and residue? I know that cleaning an old mount will only result in a old clean mount, give me some credit lol. Is there anything I can do about the head or no? I only asked about the cleaning method because I didnt know if in this fast growing buisness with many new products comming out all of the time just trying to be super safe ya know. Really I didnt mean no harm at all if you were ofended. Thanks again for you time and advice, Hank
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I have heard of some folks using brake fluid back in the dark ages....Didn't read the other post, was just wondering....
Went back to the old post....Now I see.....Dry Cleaning fluid and other industrial solvents. If the bird is greasy and messed up it could be from a bad taxi job. You can clean dust off bird mounts by removing the crust from a slice or two of bread and then wadding it up into a ball and wipe rom hed to tail. Bread picks up dust, and doesn't hurt feathers.....watch for crumbs. the old putty type wall paper cleaner was good too, but like all things that work, the Feds made them stop making it.
George was keerect, by the way.
It's trichloroethylene, tech 1,1,1 or "dry cleaning fluid" or "electronics cleaner", whatever.
Hank, I haven't read your reply yet, but I don't offend easily. I do strike back sometimes so if you got smart, you're liable to need armored underwear. LOL
I can't take credit for inventing the use of the techique in cleaning birds, but I used it back in the early 60's by using the stuff the Air Force used to clean greasy products. It was simply "Cleaning Solvent" in cans. Down the road in the 70's, Van Dykes used to sell a product called "Feather Duster" for the job, but when I looked at the MSDS, I found it to be trichloroethylene. Having rebuilt my old van a few times and remanufactured the brakes, I also found that "Feather Duster" was nothing more than relabeled drum brake cleaner.
As far as I know, that's the ONLY THING AVAILABLE, even in this modern taxidermy era. It won't "soak" your feathers as it evaporates very quickly. It cuts grease and washes it off the feather tops.
Some of you people must wear porcelein drawers. I'm sorry my "blunt" language offends some of your tender sensibilities, but even when I give you good information, some of you still whine about how you had to listen to it. Guess my daddy was right. Some people would bitch if you hung them with a new rope.
Hank, sometimes the trike will soften and wash away SOME types of paint on the head. You may have to repaint them afterwards.
BTW, I didn't SEE any response to the initial posting, so certainly not something that I'd get excited about. LOL
Carbon Tetrachloride = Trichloroethylene
we must have the same father!
Carbon tetrachloride is CCL4, and trike is CHCl or CCl2 isn't it?