FuryRebuild
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| posted on 23/6/13 at 09:09 AM |
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Domestic steam cleaner for engines, etc?
Whilst lying in bed waiting for the next edition of scrapheap challenge, there was one of the dreadful infomercials for the X5 steam cleaner.
Irritating advert but it did have a hand held option. Has anyone ever used one of these to clean up a block, sump etc?
When all you have is a hammer, everything around you is a nail.
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coozer
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| posted on 23/6/13 at 09:17 AM |
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I tried it to clean a block and it hardly touched it! Brushing on Gunk had a much quicker effect....
1972 V8 Jago
1980 Z750
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Aaron_n_Sim
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| posted on 23/6/13 at 09:18 AM |
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I borrowed a Morphy Richards one from my in-laws looks like a small pressure washer(see link), about as useful as a chocolate fire guard, used it on
the BBQ ended up using a Brillo pad and hot soapy water! The intention was to use on an engine, may work with some kind of degreaser applied first
http://www.morphyrichards.co.uk/instruction-booklets/IB-floor-care/IB-steam-cleaners/70450-Vacuum-Cleaner.html
Aaron
Work to Live don't Live to Work
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FuryRebuild
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| posted on 23/6/13 at 09:18 AM |
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I'll stick to soda blasting then.
When all you have is a hammer, everything around you is a nail.
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skov
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| posted on 23/6/13 at 09:21 AM |
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I got a Little Yello Steam cleaner for cleaning up my block and wasn't that impressed.
Some engine degreaser and a bit of elbow grease gave much better results.
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Irony
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| posted on 23/6/13 at 09:48 AM |
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Scrapheap challenge offends my swimbo.
Steam cleaners are brilliant if you have a large industrial one. We have a large diesel and electric one at work. Its as big a shopping trolley and
we have a maintainance contract with it. If you use an attachment that does detailing it will strip anything off.
I can't believe anything household would be up to much.
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chrisni1986
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| posted on 3/7/13 at 05:34 PM |
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any basic degreaser applied for a while then aggitated with a brush or the likes to remove stubborn dirt, then rinse off, i always keep the hose well
back so as to rinse the dirt off rather than blast it off, i also try my best to cover any electrical items i can with a plastic bag or the likes
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