sucking out oil in stress cracks

Hi all,

I have seen a recipe in Stunt News for a potion for sucking oil out of stress cracks and other oil-soaked areas, but now I can't find the article. One of the ingredients was corn flower, can anyone help me with the rest, or an alternative recipe?
Thanks Philip

I've heard that 'Goddard's Dry Clean' solution does a good job of this - that's what it's called in the UK.

Here in the US if you can find either the K2R spray or gel spot remover-this will leach the oil out of the spot and then you can dust away the powder residue. If you can't find any-try a little dry cleaning solvent mixed with the corn starch to make a paste. the solvent leaches the oil and causes it to wick up into the starch which isn't soluble in the solvent. Good luck.

This brings to mind my old, jinxed Goldberg Cub (R/C - sorry) which, by the end of the season, was so afflicted with fuel creep that I resorted to stapling the ***kote on to finish the year............ *sigh*

I've never been able to find any K2R so I use some spot/grease remover called AFTA. It comes in a spray can or dauber (like for white shoe polish). It may come in other containers as well but that's the kind I've found around here. I soak the area & blot it with a paper towel until the area is dry, or, in the case of broken wood that needs to be glued, until the wood looks pale & dry. If you want to cover over oil soaked wood with film, after the spot remover treatment brush on a coat or two of Balsarite & it will generally stick. There's two kinds of Balsarite, one kind comes in a green & white striped can (for film) & the other comes in a plain green can (Original fabric formula). The only difference I can see between the two is the film formula is thinner. I buy the fabric formula & cut it 100% with acetone & it works fine under film, Ultracote anyway.
Nils

Somewhere I read about using a paste of alcohol and cornstarch. Brush it in good with a bristle brush, let dry, then brush off and wipe with an alcohol soaked towel, rag, or whatever. If you don't get all the oil out the first time, repeat the procedure until you do.

Find a spray on anti-perspirent containing aluminum chlorohydrate. It WILL work, but a few applications will be needed. In the JD tractor field, we use it to locate cyl head cracks by spraying it on and watching out for the "leeching" to indicate a crack.

"Doc"