Degreasing parts in a dishwasher

[Robin427]

Has anyone tried this? Is it recommended? Does it work?

[pcoghlan]

erm...are you serious robin?

I decided to invest in a parts washer a couple of months ago and I have to say it is brilliant!!

It has a bendy hose through which it sprays degreasant and a pretty big container and shelves onto which you can place parts.

Now to be fair I was rebuilding an engine at the time but that one job alone made the purchasse worthwhile! The cleaning part of the job was practically a pleasure to the point I was slightly dissapointed once everything was clean!

From memory it was about €150 which I am sure means you could get one for about £80 in the UK. Less than the cost of replacing the dishwasher once you break it!

Paul

[gwak76]

Yes it does, sort of hot jet wash with degreasing agent, works on parts no too dirty.

Hope your either using some one elses or got a spare

[Grease Monkey]

Robin,

I thought your entire chassis was coming built from GD, and you're building the body from new parts, so whats to degrease?!

And i think i remember someone on here who'd put parts in the dishwasher and broke it Best not to!

Why not just invest in a 98p orange bucket from B&Q, a gallon of 'Gunk' or similar and a £3 pack of budget brushes from B&Q?

Just leave the oily kaky bit to soak overnight having given it a bit of a prod with the brush, and bobs your really clean part.

[stevee8]

Regardless of whether it works Robin, can you take the deaf and dumb dinners afterwards when her indoors finds out??????????

[Purple AK]

Robin.

Ask Osgood about washing parts in the dishwasher Cost him a new dishwasher and a serious overdraft at the brownie points bank
Cheers

[GUMBALL]

Hmmmmm....

Come to think of it,

Where's Eric been of late???

GUMBALL

[Robin427]

>Regardless of whether it works Robin, can you take the deaf and dumb dinners >afterwards when her indoors finds out??????????

That's what I'm hoping for!!!

My dishwasher.
My rules.

Just run a load actually (only some small parts - bits of a second hand wiper assembly that I bought off eBay) and it didn't break the dishwasher. Bloody tablet didn't drop, though, so got to do it all again.

Not to worry...

[Miket]

Couple gallons of paraffin and a pressure washer makes life easy

Reffering to Eric's escapade, it was cylinder heads he put in the dishwasher

[rich]

Hi Robin

Wouldn't recommend getting ferrous metals wet, best to clean them with parafin/gunk , etc.

But I put all my ali' bits in the dishwasher after first getting rid of the crud, and it brought them up a treat with no ill effects to the washer

Cheers
Rich