[TR] Household TR 'Tools'

[Doug Mathews]

In the late 70's I decided to wash my TR3 oil pan on the dish washer 
while my wife was away. I put it in added ammonia to cut the crease and 
went to watch TV. After a while I smelled ammonia and went back to the 
kitchen. The danged ammonia had suds-ed up, overflowed the dish washer 
and was covering about a 3rd of the floor. It was a hardwood floor and 
after I mopped it up and it dried, I saw it had removed the wax finish. 
Needless to say when the wife got home, there were some "dismay" and I 
got that look that only and agitated wife can give you. So I ended up 
having to refinish the floor, clean the grease scum out of the dishwasher.
AS an ending note, the oil pan looked good and so did the floor after I 
put dawn paste wax and buffed it.  Never tried that technique again and 
wrote off the dishwasher as a car parts washer.

Doug
On 6/6/2013 8:05 PM, Darrell Walker wrote:
> I've heard the dishwasher is good for cleaning parts, but I have no first hand
> knowledge:-)