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Re: How do -you- clean your LEGO parts?
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Date: 
Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:34:24 GMT
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Jordan Bradford wrote:
I've tried the warm soapy water and toothbrush method and the
swish-around-in-a-bathtub method, but they're both time-consuming and hard to do
with small pieces. It seems to me that using a washing machine or a dishwasher
could work, but I've never tried it due to scratches the parts could acquire and
potential heat issues.

I use washing machine. I pre-sort the parts, plates longer than 8 go
out, anything printed/glass/stickered/electric goes out, and also the
things from softer plastic should go (trees, clips etc.). Then I put it
in cloth bag (old pillow), carefully knot and then I add very little
amount of powder, low temp (30C) and I use short program with moderate
speed and no [missing word - de-waterification] at the end.

The bricks are clean, shiny and they dry very fast.

On the other hand the sound is terrible ;)

Jindroush



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  How do -you- clean your LEGO parts?
 
I don't think LUGNET has had any discussions about this in quite some time. How do -you- clean your LEGO parts? I'm interested in learning people's techniques, particularly ones that clean a lot of parts at once with little effort. LEGO that's been (...) (17 years ago, 21-Feb-08, to lugnet.general, lugnet.parts)  

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