Quaternary azeotropic mixtures of 1,1,2-trichloro-1,2,2-trifluoroethane, methylene chloride, methanol and cyclopentane are provided. These azeotropic mixtures are useful as solvents to remove buffing compounds residues. These mixtures are useful not only because of their high solvency characteristics but also because they exhibit essentially the constant boiling characteristics of an azeotrope which is formed between these components, thereby facilitating handling and purification of the solvent mixtures without significantly altering their compositions. [The quaternary mixtures disclosed herein exhibit certain advantageous solvency characteristics of glycol based compositions, over the known binary or ternary azeotropic systems containing 1,1,2-trichloro-1,2,2-trifluoroethane, methylene chloride, methanol and cyclopentane.]