After decades of buying brake parts cleaner in aerosol cans, I finally bought a reusable container like the one linked below (I do not have that exact one, this is just for reference).

Buy brake parts cleaner bulk in a gallon jug, add to one of these, pressure up with your air supply and save money. I wish I had done this years ago, no telling how much money I have wasted over the years on cans.

Sprayer

I would have liked that years ago. For the first time in my life I paid my guy to put brakes on. Just don't have the heart for it anymore.

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Originally posted by Schmelby:
I would have liked that years ago. For the first time in my life I paid my guy to put brakes on. Just don't have the heart for it anymore.

I don’t do brakes as often now, but I use this every time I change my oil. I use it at times when I am cleaning up gun parts if I need to degrease.

I always liked it for it's effectiveness against those flying stinging bastards, red wasp.

Kills the shit out of scorpions too

At my last shop we used cans and went through pallets of it.

Where I'm at now they give you a can and you charge it up out of a 55 gallon drum.
For large areas I put it in a 2 gallon sprayer.

They work well. We use them at work for a release agent.

Wish you had posted this a couple weeks ago. Probably used enough cans to fund this, cleaner, and a case of beer.

I have seen ads for Schrader valves that can be retrofitted to aerosol cans. I never needed one, and do not know how practical or durable they are.

The more I look at it, for 44 bucks I'm buying one. I use nitrogen for pressure. I'm a sucker for gadgets and tools.

Been meaning to pick one up from Horror Freight [when they have their periodic ~20% off anything sales]. Timing just eludes me...

What are you all using or recommending for solvent?

Here is what I use
1 gallon bulk

Back when I used brake parts cleaner extensively, I didn't find those cans to be all that convenient. They were guaranteed to run out in the middle of the job (the level is hard to keep track of) and took time to refill when I could just grab another aerosol. But I wasn't paying for it either, so ...