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Is Oxy-clean good for anything other than annoying the crap out of me when I am watching TV?
Yes Billy, I am talking about you.

Anyone ever try using the dishwasher? Read it on 'another' forum and thought I'd give it a try and it worked great. I only had some 'plastic-y' parts that went in and haven't tried it on any 'nylon-y' parts but its worth a try when I get there. I just knocked the heavy stuff off first with a scrub brush.
Todd

i betcha the dishwasher would work pretty good. i wish i had one... i can see myself ziptie-ing everything to the racks so they dont bounce around all over the place.

next time i wash my whites... i'm gonna throw some parts in there and see what happens.

it's been awhile since i've cleaned any white parts, but for me just soaking the parts in softscrub and bleach and scrubbing the heck out of them with a vegetable brush every once in awhile prolly worked the best.

klavy69 wrote:Anyone ever try using the dishwasher?...
Todd

Sounds intriguing Todd. But I am not giving my wife anymore ammunition to bombard me with. She freaked out when she opened up the dish washer and my Dremel case was in there.

klavy69 wrote:Anyone ever try using the dishwasher?

My only concern with it would be the Heat thats generated in the drying process. I would worry about warping of parts.

I just picked up an RPM rollong chassis. Stripped it down completely last night and made a dish soap bath w/ a small amount of Oxy-clean. I put the parts in last night, and i'll check them tonight when I get home. The parts were quite dirty, so i may need to wash them 2x. Unfortunately the bin I have is too small for the chassis. But just a bit of hand washing on the chassis last night, seemed to help. I'll try a firmer scrubbing of the parts tonight.


MOmo

Most dishwashers you can turm off the drying cycle off.

bearrickster wrote:Most dishwashers you can turm off the drying cycle off.

You should be very very careful of the drying cycle. With non-dishwahser safe plastics they will melt.

Dr. Robotnik wrote:

bearrickster wrote:Most dishwashers you can turm off the drying cycle off.

You should be very very careful of the drying cycle. With non-dishwahser safe plastics they will melt.

and if you use any chemicals to clean your parts with, the residue will rest on the heating element. I found out the hard way, some chemicals do not like to get hot. Opened up the dishwasher one day and nearly passed out from the fumes. I had to evacuate the house. Even the ninja my closet could not handle it and ninjas are awesome.

Definitely turn off the element if you can.

Tadracket wrote:Even the ninja in my closet could not handle it and ninjas are awesome.

Yep, should've been more specific. Definitely turn the drying cycle off and if you can't just wait for it to get there and take them out for it. The latter is what I had to do and what do the say...what she don't know won't kill me ...err, I mean her. Didn't use any chemicals but some jet dry but did do a little scrubbin on the heavy stuff first. Yep, I would imagine the ninja would turn and run with some major chemical smell .
Todd