robertst
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| posted on 28/6/06 at 02:23 PM |
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cleaning plastic containers
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
Tom
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nick205
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| posted on 28/6/06 at 02:39 PM |
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I think others have used baking soda or similar to clean plastic header tanks out.
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UncleFista
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| posted on 28/6/06 at 03:30 PM |
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Half fill with water, then add a handful of sand and shake thoroughly 
Tony Bond / UncleFista
Love is like a snowmobile, speeding across the frozen tundra.
Which suddenly flips, pinning you underneath.
At night the ice-weasels come...
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Marcus
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| posted on 28/6/06 at 04:01 PM |
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Stick em in the dishwasher! (when SWMBO isn't around)
Marcus
Because kits are for girls!!
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dave r
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| posted on 28/6/06 at 04:30 PM |
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as above dishwasher will shift anything 
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robertst
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| posted on 28/6/06 at 04:50 PM |
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 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....
Tom
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zetec7
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| posted on 28/6/06 at 06:28 PM |
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Dishwasher works a treat on small engine parts!
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rusty nuts
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| posted on 28/6/06 at 06:34 PM |
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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
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chockymonster
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| posted on 28/6/06 at 07:03 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by zetec7
Dishwasher works a treat on small engine parts!
Small engine parts?
Cleans up cylinder heads a treat
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John Bonnett
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| posted on 28/6/06 at 08:41 PM |
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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
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martyn_16v
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| posted on 28/6/06 at 10:11 PM |
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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]
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robertst
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| posted on 29/6/06 at 01:59 AM |
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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]
Tom
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robertst
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| posted on 29/6/06 at 11:59 AM |
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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
Tom
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