Cleaning pistons

RustyRatRod said

When I was still in high school, I worked for a local mom and pop machine shop that was opened in 1957. The owner opened it upon his return from the Navy. He had a 55 gallon barrel with 35 gallons of carbon-tetra-chloride in it. That stuff would clean the nastiest carburetor you ever saw in an hour. It was some bad stuff.

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That's not the first time I've heard about carbon tet from a military veteran. Usually it was in regard to how they would clean their weapons from cosmoline packing after transport to theater. They'd stack rifles in a 55 gal barrel of that stuff and it would have them clean in no time. It's not something that you want to be exposed to for a long time though.