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cleaning plastic containers
robertst - 28/6/06 at 02:23 PM

i remember seeing somewhere, someone restoring one of these liquid containers (such as the water bottle or header tank) back to white.
i'm currently cleaning stuff from my donor and would like to have a completely white header tank and water bottle, not this yellow mucky object they are now.

any thoughts about how to clean them? specially on the inside?
would dipping them in bleach and leaving them for a day or two be enough? or is there an easier way of doing it?

thanks

nick205 - 28/6/06 at 02:39 PM

I think others have used baking soda or similar to clean plastic header tanks out.

UncleFista - 28/6/06 at 03:30 PM

Half fill with water, then add a handful of sand and shake thoroughly

Marcus - 28/6/06 at 04:01 PM

Stick em in the dishwasher! (when SWMBO isn't around)

dave r - 28/6/06 at 04:30 PM

as above dishwasher will shift anything

robertst - 28/6/06 at 04:50 PM

i cant believe it.... oven to dry all wet parts, dishwasher to clean.... and i get scared of a day past the expiration on food!
i'd like to know how many in this forum have digestive problems

probably will try the sand method... or that brush used in crappers....

zetec7 - 28/6/06 at 06:28 PM

Dishwasher works a treat on small engine parts!

rusty nuts - 28/6/06 at 06:34 PM

Was tempted to try the dishwasher but bottled out . Instead just used dishwasher powder in a bowl of boiling water and a flexible brush , came up like new without any grief from you know who

chockymonster - 28/6/06 at 07:03 PM

quote:
Originally posted by zetec7
Dishwasher works a treat on small engine parts!


Small engine parts?
Cleans up cylinder heads a treat

John Bonnett - 28/6/06 at 08:41 PM

i cant believe it.... oven to dry all wet parts, dishwasher to clean.... and i get scared of a day past the expiration on food!
i'd like to know how many in this forum have digestive problems


Come on, where's your sense of adventure?

Many of today's ailments are a result of being too clean. Nothing like a little bit of dirt to encourage the anti-bodies!!

John

martyn_16v - 28/6/06 at 10:11 PM

quote:
Originally posted by John Bonnett
Many of today's ailments are a result of being too clean. Nothing like a little bit of dirt to encourage the anti-bodies!!

John


Exactly. I ate grass and mud when I was a kid and i'm quite healthy, no allergies to anything. My nephews/nieces who have been brought up wrapped in cotton wool now can't go near anything without changing colour

Oh yeah, and four years of having to eat my cooking at uni, from a typically biological male student kitchen, has left me with a bombproof stomach. I AM INVINCIBLE

[Edited on 28/6/06 by martyn_16v]

robertst - 29/6/06 at 01:59 AM

lol... ur actually right... but still, who wants to put their dishes and food containers in a place where a 20-year-old i-dont-know-where-it-was-or-who-handled-it thing went.

i really cant picture a cylinder head in my dishwasher!

its like trying to put my dog in the washing machine so i save having to wash him using my hands

finally used "clit bang" as hellfire passionately called it back in an earlier post, and left it all night... i'll see how it turns up later this morning...

[Edited on 29/6/06 by robertst]

[Edited on 29/6/06 by robertst]

robertst - 29/6/06 at 11:59 AM

no luck... am now trying with boiling water and bleach... i'll leave it for a few hours and if that doesnt work i'll try hardcore bleach, and if THAT doesnt work, i'll try turpentine, and if THAT doesnt work, ill use hardcore turpentine, and if THAT doesnt work, i'll use gasoline, and if THAT doesnt work..... i might just be better off going to buy a new one