Water soluble cleaner?

[jellywrestler]

i've used various products for cleaning shit before and just bought a gay wall mounted parts cleaner that will only accept water based or water soluble cleaner so may as well find out what everyone else prefers....

[Banditbandit]

What's wrong with petrol and hot water .. in that order, not mixed together ??

[willytheekid]

Simple Green industrial strength...smells pritty too!

[BoristheBiter]

Good luck,

I have never found a good heavy degreaser that is water soluble.

Most are only good for dust and a bit of oil.

[jellywrestler]

What's wrong with petrol and hot water .. in that order, not mixed together ??

the cleaner i've got wont use petrol based products simple as that plus petrol smells like a nuns ferret and evaporates to quickly, is flammable and it's an electric unit with and electric light, need any more details?

[Banditbandit]

Yes yes .. my point was why buy stuff like that when you can use petrol and hot water ...

[Akzle]

Simple Green industrial strength...smells pritty too!

the orange one.

Op. Shoulda got a kero bath. Fooled again!

Anyone know what to do with broken rubber bands?

[hayd3n]

spray kleener

[george formby]

Try sugar soap. I use it as a heavy degreaser in the kitchen to clean extraction filters, canopy etc.

[Motu]

I've used solvents in the ones that say no solvents, and they work just fine. You really need to heat the water based stuff up, otherwise it's like washing dishes in cold water, and that just doesn't work very well. (dunno if anyone remembers washing dishes by hand, but we still do). I had a heating coil made up to fit inside the drum of my partswasher....they use a 60 litre grease drum, which are taller and narrower than a 60 litre oil drum. I use stuff like Workshop Workhores, or Econoclean - they are pretty strong and will take paint off and damage hands, even diluted. About 50/50 dilution in the partswasher. I'm using diesel at home now - it's cheap and doesn't evaporate very fast. Really annoying in summer losing to lose half your cleaner...even with the lid shut.

[Woodman]

Thats the problem with the electric partswashers is they state that you must use water soluble cleaners which is hard to find and doesn't work as good. Air operated are better as their is no risk of sparks and explosions. More expensive for air ones, but cheap is popular hence electric ones.

[Taxythingy]

I've used liquid clothes detergent in hot water to good effect for getting rid of road grime and chain muck. Doesn't foam, so probably ok for the parts cleaner. Scrubbed it straight on to MTB chains and sprockets, frame & pretty much everything else that was bogged. That was Dublin road grime mixed with luscious quantities of chain lube, not some pansy weekend dirt.

Not up to the grease cutting power of some kero and a toothbrush, but it's cheap as chips. And I could do it in the living room on a tarp in winter without pissing off the wife. Too much.

[george formby]

I've used liquid clothes detergent in hot water to good effect for getting rid of road grime and chain muck. Doesn't foam, so probably ok for the parts cleaner. Scrubbed it straight on to MTB chains and sprockets, frame & pretty much everything else that was bogged. That was Dublin road grime mixed with luscious quantities of chain lube, not some pansy weekend dirt.

Not up to the grease cutting power of some kero and a toothbrush, but it's cheap as chips. And I could do it in the living room on a tarp in winter without pissing off the wife. Too much.

Yup, it's a good cleaner, I use Persil. But. If you don't rinse properly it can react with alloy & aluminum. That's a reason why I like sugar soap, it seems non reactive & it's $2.99 a litre at Bunnings at the mo. Never used it on mineral oil / grease but it knocks the snot out of veggie oils, even when it's gone all thick & acidic.

[Motu]

Thats the problem with the electric partswashers is they state that you must use water soluble cleaners

Electric partswashers have been around for years - Safetyclean came out around 1980, using used by date aviation fuel, those machines are still around. Submersible pump,same as the one in your car, and they don't blow up either. It's just cover your arse.