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Trial Number 4

Trial Purpose:

To evaluate supplied aerosol products for manual stainless steel cleaning

Date Run:

06/02/2009

Experiment Procedure:

Preweighed stainless steel coupons were coated with Hucker's Soil Formulation (Jif Creamy Peanut Butter 9.2%, Salted Butter 9.2%, Arrowhead Mills stone ground wheat flour 9.2%, Egg Yolk 9.2%, Evaporated milk 13.8%, Distilled water 45.8%, Printer's ink with boiled linseed oil 0.9%, Shaws saline solution 2.7%) using a hand held swab and allowed to dry for 24 hours at room temperature. The contaminated coupons were weighed again to determine the amount of soil added.

Three coupons were placed into a Gardner Straight Line Washability unit. A Kimberly Clark Reinforced paper towel was attached to the cleaning sled and soaked with 5-7 sprays of cleaning solutions. Each coupon was sprayed 7-10 times with the same cleaning solution. The solution was allowed to penetrate for 30 seconds followed by cleaning in the SLW unit for 20 cycles (~33 seconds). At the end of the cleaning, coupons were wiped once with a dry paper towel. Final weights were recorded and efficiencies were calculated and recorded.

Trial Results:

The supplied product and industry product were effective in removing the Hucker's Soil with a manual wiping action. The table lists the amount of soil initially added and the amount remaining after cleaning and the product efficiency for each coupon cleaned.

Cleaner Initial wt Final wt % Removed
A00146 0.2005 0.0453 77.41
  0.1939 0.0319 83.55
  0.1507 0.0356 76.38
A00142 0.1504 0.0176 88.30
  0.1907 0.0231 87.89
  0.0989 0.0124 87.46
3M SS Cleaner Polish 0.1275 0.0280 78.04
  0.1027 0.0216 78.97
  0.0824 0.0260 68.45
Spartan  Cleaner Polish 0.0926 0.0160 82.72
  0.1525 0.0152 90.03
  0.1733 0.0395 77.21
Stainless Steel Maintainer 0.0937 0.0195 79.19
  0.1387 0.0172 87.60
  0.0901 0.0183 79.69
Wiemanns SS Cleaner/Polish 0.0557 0.0110 80.25
  0.1055 0.0181 82.84
  0.0598 0.0187 68.73

Success Rating:

A follow up test, usually based on company input.

Conclusion:

Only one product, Amrep Misty, removed more than 85% of the all purpose soil from stainless steel. Two other products removed  more than 85% and the remaining three removed more than 75%. Aspire was the fourth most effective cleaner in the stainless steel polish and cleaning category.

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