Dishwasher is a new one for me.

I can use the really big one at work and fit all kinds of big parts in it. lol.

 

There was a guy on aborist site who took aprt a chainsaw and stuffed all the parts in there, and i was suprised how clean it got , dont know what soap he used but , the wife was not happy, lmao!

 

I used the shower one time to clean the valve cover for my JEEP when I replaced the gasket on it, it took me 2 hours and a half gallon of bleach to get it clean again. I wont be doing that again.

 

lol i tryed cleaning my first intake manifold in the bath....i used aircraft cleaner to get the oil residue....then it was eating away at the floor lol....so i brought it to a machince shop

 

Never used aircraft cleaner, but have used aircraft stripper on other projects. That is some nasty ****. I too have cleaned parts in the tub before... which explains why it is in need of some liquid plumber now hahaha. But I tend to just stick to dawn as my degreaser and a bristle brush or rag. As far as removing oil residue, "engine bright gel" does a nice job imho. I just cleaned the four wheeler cases last weekend so I can start tearing it down. Just scrape off as much buildup as you can with pick set or small screw driver. Spray it down with the gel and let it do the work. Give her a rinse with a garden hose and see. If the engine bright doesn't take it off, just take a tooth brush and work it around gently. Pulls most of it, if not all of it right now. If it were me, I probably would have tackled it that way and saved the machine shop bill since the intake would be covered back up, but then again im sure you could have eaten off that intake when you got it back.

 

I've always had good luck with Simple Green (for parts, not the bath tub). BTW, a lot of Black Powder shooters clean up their guns in the bath tub.

 

+1 on the simple green, that's good shyt and it won't even hurt painted surfaces.

 

Aircraft remover burns like hell when it gets on your skin lol i stripped down an entire 67 chevy with it.

LAYERS and LAYERS of old paint just turned to rubber and scraped right off i love that stuff

 

Aircraft remover is mostly methylene chloride. It's one of those so called chlorinated hydrocarbons the environmentalist claim are the root of all evil so I suspect it will eventually go the way of freon, TSP and MTBE.
It's a great solvent and disolves almost everything. Even nitrile gloves don't stand up to it very well. As you can imagine it's not too good for you.
A lot of the sting you feel is it epavorating from your skin.

 

I still have a can of that aircraft remover, kinda cool watching the paint melt away, lol , man that would be a easy way to ***** up someone's car in a sec..........wife better be faithful....j/k