when your spouse leaves....

[DanHoug]

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'87 Westy & '89 Westy both 2.1 4spd

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[Glenn]

https://jalopnik.com/do-not-wash-greasy-car-parts-in-your-dishwasher-1770250614
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[Paulbeard]

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[Jeffrey Lee]

It's a good thing you have Westies, as you will likely soon be living in the proverbial van down by the proverbial river ...
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[?Waldo?]

At my last house I had a spare dishwasher set up in my workshop area. It worked fairly well. I certainly wouldn't use the 'house' dishwasher whether or not my spouse was around.

[DanHoug]

it's fine, they were clean.... soda/walnut shell blasted, degreased, just removing valve guide honing grit.

for the astute observer, these are from the WBX-6 120 degree radial engine. 1/3 decendant of the of the Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp!
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60% of what you find on the internet is wrong, including this post.

'87 Westy & '89 Westy both 2.1 4spd

Past projects can be found at--
www.thefixitworkshop.com

[Wellington]

Ya it's better to use the old appliances, I call it giving them a second life when the new appliances get purchased.
The best is the old stove for baking freshly painted parts.

[DanHoug]

yup. new valve guides inserted after heating in a re-purposed apartment stove/oven running off a 20lb propane bottle in the garage. did a Porketta in the morning, heads in the afternoon.
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60% of what you find on the internet is wrong, including this post.

'87 Westy & '89 Westy both 2.1 4spd

Past projects can be found at--
www.thefixitworkshop.com

[jimf909]

[Abscate]

You young guys think marital bliss is physical when it's really a hatch to pass the cylinder heads through to the tune of " pop these in the washer for me, sweetheart?"
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[Mellow Yellow 74]

Don't put anything with anodised aluminium in the dishwasher - the sodium hydroxide in the detergent will strip the anodising.
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[alaskadan]

I find the dryer to be a little rough on parts.

[Gnarlodious]

[Wildthings]

Ovens are great for curing paint, best the wife be gone for a couple of days though.

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[?Waldo?]

Such a strange concept. Maybe it's all in jest (hard to tell with just text). My spouse and I have a mutually supportive and respectful relationship. We actually like each other and I'd like to keep it that way. I don't try to 'hide' things from her or do things behind her back. That's just messed up. I don't see why anyone would want to live that way. There generally isn't anything I'd want to do 'in the house' that she wouldn't support and if there were, then I simply wouldn't do it 'in the house' out of respect. The thought of eating off dishes with residual car oil is downright disgusting. The thought of stinking up the house with baking paint fumes is revolting.

[Mellow Yellow 74]

[bobbyblack]

Heh, I don't know what she is putting in her dish washer or oven now, but the minute my then spouse and now eX-spouse became that, she drove out the driveway with the Westy, and I know she didn't check the rear view mirror.

And, no, it wasn't because I put VW parts in the oven or dishwasher. Maybe if I had, she wouldn't be my eX..
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[Wellington]

old stove is in the garage, no stinking the house.
Now let me go outside to fart.