Calling all fettlers.... Dishwashers & bike bits

[GrumpyGregry]

I don't have a workshop. Well I do but it doubles as a back garden. My thing is fixing up old 90's mountain bikes and putting them back into use. Sometimes components from someone's old shed bike need a thorough cleaning before you can work out if it is a case of re-use or replace. I scrub em uo first and them pop them in the dishwasher.

What say the assembled CC-ers?

 

[Gary E]

Ultrasonic every time. Place the component in a bag of Trichloroethane and float it in the Ultrasonic tank, comes up like new.
I have a big one at work I can use and a small one at home that I bought from eBay (that's just about big enough for a cassette)

 

[Gary E]

....also; I don't have a dishwasher

 

[MacB]

Dishwasher here

 

[MrJamie]

Isn't the dishwasher salt bad for them, or can you just rinse it off?

 

[ianrauk]

You should have a choice for 'use the dishwasher for components but only when the wife is out'

 

[GrumpyGregry]

You should have a choice for 'use the dishwasher for components but only when the wife is out'

The lovely Helen doesn't mind so long as

I scrub/degrease stuff a fair bit first
I don't run the dishwasher without a full load of washing up in it just so I can clean a few components.

Right, now to go back to swearing at a stuck GXP bottom bracket.

 

[Tim Hall]

I think I've dishwashered. I've certainly boiled components in a saucepan with a bit of washing up liquid. For real hardcore, look for zigzag's thread about getting a stuck tap out of a dropout.

 

[Night Train]

This is where the Land Rover fettlers have it right.

Buy a used commercial stainless steel dishwasher from a restaurant or hotel clearance sale/auction. Site in suitable fettling location next to an oil drum half full of degreaser. Plumb the two together to recirculate the degreaser and then wash all parts in that dishwasher. A filter can be added between the washer outflow and the oil drum to catch grit and loose ball bearings that have escaped.

 

[classic33]

This is where the Land Rover fettlers have it right.

Buy a used commercial stainless steel dishwasher from a restaurant or hotel clearance sale/auction. Site in suitable fettling location next to an oil drum half full of degreaser. Plumb the two together to recirculate the degreaser and then wash all parts in that dishwasher. A filter can be added between the washer outflow and the oil drum to catch grit and loose ball bearings that have escaped.

I can see only one problem with this suggestion. I've used degreasing liquids/solutions that would melt any plastic they came into contact with.

 

[Smurfy]

1. Buy a 750 gram jar of pasta sauce.
2. Eat the pasta sauce.
3. Rinse out the jar.
4. Put a few inches of white spirit in the jar.
5. Put the chain, derailleur etc. etc. in the jar.
6. Screw the lid on and swish it.
7 Job done.

 

[Night Train]

I can see only one problem with this suggestion. I've used degreasing liquids/solutions that would melt any plastic they came into contact with.

Also, according to the Land Rover bods the degreaser also tends to rot away the steel oil drum over time too.

 

[Smurfy]

Incidentally, there are far worse crimes than putting bike bits in the dishwasher.

 

[mickle]

You people let your bikes get dirty!?

 

[ianrauk]

You people let your bikes get dirty!?

It's a bloody disgrace.