I would have suggested my old boss, but he's closed up and sold on the company (to someone I can't remember) - but it does sound like a decent investment in some proper reliable kit is required if you are spending so much time regularly, when a few minutes in a proper machine would sort it out.
Something like: http://www.magido.com/en/products/2/top-loader-washers/
Which if you look at most of the UK industrial parts washing companies, they simply buy them in and re-badge them - as we did - simply couldn't make them for the price the Italians would sell one to us for.
Stick 'em in, shut the lid, press "start", go away and go earn money doing something else while it does its thing.
Or you could frig about with some home-made contraption that sort of works, requires a lot of your time, and doesn't work as well . . .
I seem to recall the first machine I designed ever, 25 yrs ago, was sub-contract for a company called Turbex - who are still around - and flog re-badege Italian top loaders by the look . . . by conincidence, current work place bought one of their bigger cabinet washers to clean castings/fabrications up to a couple of tonnes prior to painting and assembly - replacing a man and a power washer . .
Brad, this is probably a bit stupid of me but I use diesel let it settle and just and the poo just ends up at bottom or I just dump it at one of the customers workshop in the wast oil.Whatever waste the machine makes I will have to have collected or disposed of. That’s an important consideration. The method I use now I just burn the waste oil/brake cleaner mixture
Diesel no good. One the smell and two these parts are food industry parts.Brad, this is probably a bit stupid of me but I use diesel let it settle and just and the poo just ends up at bottom or I just dump it at one of the customers workshop in the wast oil.
Have fun cleaning grease out of thatfirst tank is a settlement tank the others are collection tanks with media placed in them
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I think we have a jet washer and a few of the DG8 hand washers at work: https://www.d-grease.co.uk/products/parts-washers/they look fantastic but I would imagine well out of my price range. I’m probably looking to spend up to £1000.
you should try cleaning grease out of drains when users use either the sink or dishwasherHave fun cleaning grease out of that
Yep those look like the magido ones rebranded. Any idea what the jet washers go for?I think we have a jet washer and a few of the DG8 hand washers at work: https://www.d-grease.co.uk/products/parts-washers/
DOH!!!!! Sorry dudeDiesel no good. One the smell and two these parts are food industry parts.
No idea I'm afraid - I guess we rent them, which also covers removal of used cleaning solutions.Yep those look like the magido ones rebranded. Any idea what the jet washers go for?
I know how they work I’ve got. 2000g koi pond. So I know how long such systems take so clean. No thanks.you just need to choose the size you want to use
Jet 100 is £4000+VATNo idea I'm afraid - I guess we rent them, which also covers removal of used cleaning solutions.
Which might minimise initial outlay. But I reckon you might be surprised how much time you are paying yourself to clean parts - used to be the case when people came to us with the idea of maybe, might do, but can't justify washing plant . . .
But a decent machine will help clean anything that fits side it - I really miss access to such machines - my own home-brewed system for cleaning all the parts of my engine before rebuild used a cheap parts washer from Zoro, a heated tea-urn from Ebay, a brush on a hose, a 5micon 10" water filter from either Amazon or ebay and a cheap 12v submersible pump. Heat suitable detergent solution in the tea urn, pump to brush using the 12V pump via the filter, wash the components into the parts washer - parts washer pump returns solution to tea urn. But not exactly self-running or industrial quality.
I really haven’t got time for that gaz. What a **Language**ing eyesore too in the workshop, let alone the space. I’m looking for a compact solution all in one. Not home brew crapthe method id use is paint cans 5 litre or 10 litres
vortex the first can and pipe over to the second can easy enough to do with a rubber seal and a welded up top
that one means i can take it out of the system and burn it
second can would be a different setup droped into it and allowed to settle rising through a up and down plate before moving onto the next can
this can can also be burnt
3rd can would have an up down plate with cleaner medium init
so would the 4th and filtered to a main can
reason for using paint cans easy to replace and can be burnt but also easy to seal with a rubber and top clamped down by pull down clamps
you could use smaller cans to do the same
so go on line and check then and buy the thing then if thats the aproach your going to sayI really haven’t got time for that gaz. What a **Language**ing eyesore too in the workshop, let alone the space. I’m looking for a compact solution all in one. Not home brew crap