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by excossack » Mon Apr 28, 2008 6:42 pm
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by Alejoint » Mon Apr 28, 2008 10:05 pm
Hmmm, wonder if this will work with plain white vinegar?
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by Patrick_91 » Mon Apr 28, 2008 10:10 pm
amazing...truly amazing
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by Avtovaz » Mon Apr 28, 2008 10:50 pm
my mate alister washed his engine in his dishwasher and it came out awesome!
his mrs wasnt too pleased, but she is using it now...
... 3 years later!
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by Eddy » Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:39 am
Alejoint wrote:Hmmm, wonder if this will work with plain white vinegar?
I'll let ya know tomorrow ...
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by excossack » Tue Apr 29, 2008 12:18 pm
If it does work OK, what about adding a 12v washer pump to ciruclate the vinegar, and then filter it through a diesel filter and back in again....removing the sediment as you go?
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by Alejoint » Tue Apr 29, 2008 2:08 pm
That sounds like a good idea, John...
I reckon vinegar might work well for removing rust; but will it cut through grease, oil and grime? I know I shouldn't but I still use plain ole gasoline as solvent for the sooty shoaite.
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by excossack » Tue Apr 29, 2008 2:52 pm
I shall try and get some on the way home, and select at random some greasey, oily grimey and rusty items and see what happens....
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by GadgetBoy » Tue Apr 29, 2008 3:02 pm
I built something very similar when I was re-building my Niva. As someone suggested I used a 12V skoosher pump ....
It worked fine for a while but the de-greaser (Jizer) also de-greased the bearings of the washer pump which eventually died.
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by Alejoint » Tue Apr 29, 2008 4:44 pm
I reckon the old oil pump I took off my engine, along with a small 12 volt motor attached to the pump's drive shaft and the necessary bracketry to keep the assembly put on the bottom of the washer bin might work a treat too.
Think I'll stick with petrol/Diesel fuel. At less than 0.06 dollars a liter, fuel beats the crap out of any other commercial degreaser.
Sounds like a good weekend project.
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by ladaboy » Tue Apr 29, 2008 6:18 pm
Why would you need that pump business when the VW guy has shown it works brilliantly without one?
Admittedly I know nothing about parts washers so that might be a stupid question.
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by GadgetBoy » Tue Apr 29, 2008 6:27 pm
It's moot as far as I'm concerned. I went out and bought a 20gallon proper one.
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by excossack » Tue Apr 29, 2008 6:46 pm
As a test, I found an empty jar of pickles in the cupboard, still with some vinegar in. A quick trip to the shed and found a rusty bolt.
Rusty Bolt
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by Alejoint » Tue Apr 29, 2008 7:29 pm
ladaboy wrote:Why would you need that pump business when the VW guy has shown it works brilliantly without one?
Admittedly I know nothing about parts washers so that might be a stupid question.
A pump is great to have when you're cleaning heavily-soiled parts. If you're just going to soak the bits (like the VW bloke did) then you don't need to recirculate the solvent.
I'm not gonna pay 300 dollars locally for a parts washer like the one GB bought, much less knowing that I could build mine for pocket money. I happen to have a 110-volt sewing machine motor around which might work nicely for this appl.
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by excossack » Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:01 pm
or a garden sprayer, the type you pump up and down to get the pressure up.
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