Degrease

[Steffan]

I have more than my fair share of projects on the go - too many some might say

Anyway, I get fed up with pictures in magazines of people putting back together spotlessly clean bike components. So I think to myself I should degrease things but where to dispose of the waste ?

How do you all go about degreasing old parts and what do you do with the waste. (For example, one could put the bike on a rear slab, cover it in degreaser and the pressure wash it but that doesn't seem very ecological as the waste ends up all over the ground and in the ground water...

Thoughts please?

Steffan (the greasy one)

[Ian]

                      Don`t let them get greasy in the first place

[Steffan]

I wait all day and that is the response I get .

Thanks!!

[guest1418]

Hi, i clean as i strip my projects,i use an old washing bowl with parrafin and paint brushes to take most of the greasy crap off,then wipe down with rags, the dirty parrafin i put in empty oil containers and when ive finished the project i take this to my local tip/recycling centre and leave it at the oil recycling unit,i have also been known to put parts in the dishwasher

[Ian]

....i have also been known to put parts in the dishwasher

Apparently its not a good idea to put zinc based parts in the dishwasher, as the chemicals in the tablets dont do them any favours.

 

I wait all day and that is the response I get .

Thanks!!

You`re welcome

Alternatively ....do you know of a friendly garage local to you who will let you use their "parts washer" ? (dont forget plenty of rags!)

[guest1418]

I dont put a tablet in with the parts just go with the very hot wash,as they already clean of all the muc its removing the crap out of the nooks and crannies

[Steffan]

Dishwashers use salt as an abrasive.

[guest1418]

Not if you dont put it in

[guest1552]

All the left over oily crap, I put in a container with old engine oil etc...
Then once I have enough I paint my shed in it, it'll never go rotten
and if there aint enough I add creosote

[guest987]

Gunk. Love the smell........... , not cheap though.

Like Jeffa, I take any waste to the local tip. Failing that, if running, then take the bike and jet wash it.

Rob

[Richard]

Steve - the tip in Lampeter has a special container for used oil - I keep mine in a 5 gallon drum and take it down there every now and then.  Llanarth may have the same facility.   It includes the oily muck left over from parts washing.

[trophydave]

If your local grease pit type garage has a waste oil burner they will probably take it off you.

[Steffan]

Never knew they took muck, only ever used them for oil.

[Richard]

So long as its oily enough I suppose :-)

[johnr]

look up 'waste oil burner' on google. if youve enough oil left at the end of the year, you can make an oil fired heater to heat your garage!!