Cleaning Big Red Sponge?

**Eldorado2k** · 03-01-2020, 11:27 AM

What’s the best way to go about cleaning/washing a BRS that may have been left outside for a couple of months collecting dust in the sun? I’d like to hear from people who’ve actually had to clean their BRS in the past. Thanks.

**spazzz** · 03-01-2020, 12:51 PM

Originally Posted by Eldorado2k

What’s the best way to go about cleaning/washing a BRS that may have been left outside for a couple of months collecting dust in the sun? I’d like to hear from people who’ve actually had to clean their BRS in the past. Thanks.

Back when I had one (LOL), I would soak it in Megs APC, then ZEP industrial orange degreaser. And hand rinse and rinse and rinse.
Did it look okay when you got it?

**Eldorado2k** · 03-01-2020, 01:18 PM

Originally Posted by spazzz

Back when I had one (LOL), I would soak it in Megs APC, then ZEP industrial orange degreaser. And hand rinse and rinse and rinse.
Did it look okay when you got it?

I was hoping you wouldn’t see this... lol.
But now that you have, I might as well show you what it looks like right now.

Megs APC? Man that sounds like a nightmare to rinse off.. Maybe I’ll try Wolfgang APC? Or maybe 3D Towel Kleen can do it? Thanks for chiming in. And it looked great when it arrived.

**Finick** · 03-01-2020, 08:14 PM

Any APC or degreaser will do fine. Just spray it and massage it in and then rinse. I had similar results with OPC or the degrease that rhymes with duper spleen

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**Eldorado2k** · 03-01-2020, 08:21 PM

Originally Posted by Finick

Any APC or degreaser will do fine. Just spray it and massage it in and then rinse. I had similar results with OPC or the degrease that rhymes with duper spleen

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I’m thinking about LATA. Since it’s low sudsing and high cleaning? It’s what I clean my polishing pads with

**Finick** · 03-01-2020, 08:48 PM

Originally Posted by Eldorado2k

I’m thinking about LATA. Since it’s low sudsing and high cleaning? It’s what I clean my polishing pads with

I think it would be fine, I can’t imagine it would hurt the sponge. You’d be surprised how much crap comes out of even a pretty clean looking sponge.

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**Coatingsarecrack** · 03-02-2020, 05:20 AM

Have you tried anappy clean before? You can get a few small packs of AG for around 4$. Its citrus based but it works great on cleaning foam pads and rinses out super easy.

:Note i do not own a BRS but that stuff makes foam pads squeeky clean

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