Best Rib Tube Cleaners??

[ciaranp]

what is the best Tube cleaner for a rib and where can it be purchased?

[Nos4r2]

Use the search facility-search 'tube cleaner'. You'll find enough reading for a couple of hours

[Tim M]

Traffic film remover (TFR) diluted with water. You can get it on ebay very cheaply. Wear gloves, put some in a sprayer, spray onto the tube, then rub with a soft green pan scourer. Rinse with lots of fresh water.

[ciaranp]

cheers for that

[adams1x]

See my post about Rib-Shop, they use stuff called Rib Revive and a 3M protectant and it has done wonders for my Rib and can be bought from their website.....

[Tim M]

I suspect Rib Revive is similar to diluted TFR; it smells similar, burns your skin in a similar way when you don't wear gloves, and gives a similar result.

[Hightower]

Only burns your hands if you've got namby pamby skin

All joking aside, I don't think Rib Revive is TFR, certainly not the stuff I had anyway.

Originally Posted by Tim M

I suspect Rib Revive is similar to diluted TFR; it smells similar, burns your skin in a similar way when you don't wear gloves, and gives a similar result.

[ciaranp]

how does it work?
how is it applied etc?how long do you leave it on and rinse off with water?

[codprawn]

TFR is great but I found a green nylon scourer a bit too rough - use a soft nylon brush instead - Tesco do some great ones cheap - also good for alloy wheels.

[BogMonster]

Does anybody think the "tube protector" does anything?

I have done my RIB a couple of times with Rib Revive and the effect is dramatic - but last time I did part of the tube immediately afterwards with 3M tube conditioner for the first time and it didn't seem to make a darned bit of difference so I didn't do the rest, and three months on the whole tube still looks much the same and is just starting to look a bit grubby again. What's it actually supposed to do?

ciaranp you spray the Rib Revive on from the supplied trigger spray bottle, leave it for a minute or so and then scrub it with a scourer and wash it off with lots and lots of water. Don't leave it to dry on the tube in hot sun as it then leaves horrid streaks which are a bugger to shift - no prizes for guessing how I know that! Best done on a dull day, I do about a chamber at a time on my RIB as by the time I have sprayed that much it is ready to start scrubbing at the other end. The first time I did it, it took a lot of elbow grease but it had been stored in a warehouse populated by smelly forklift trucks, last time I did it, it was dead easy and took me less than an hour to do the whole boat.