Very cool idea! My crock pot will boil on high in an hour, I wonder how well it would clean? I do need to buy a larger one for the house!
interesting.. i just found one here at home lol same color.. the cool 70s orange/brown. I wonder if this gets stinkin' real bad though.
....wonder if the wife would get mad if i used her new nesco roaster......i could tell her it would hold much larger parts...... that is a good idea.... i wondered about sticking a block heater on the side of my parts washer......safe with paint thinner??? no open flames?
I've boiled carbs (holley 94's) on the stovetop, but it didn't work all that well, prolly needed to use some sort of cleaning agent...
LoL...I hear virgin olive oil is the best for in-home low carb cooking! Seriously...you know you need a cleaning agent. Don't think I'd be using it inside the house on the kitchen stove though! Oddly enough, my wife was just saying that she might toss the crockpot soon as we don't use it much anymore....hmmmmmmm...
yeah, luckily I live alone in the house, so any stench that came from boiling carbs was something only I had to live with...besides, I'd rather have the house smelling like the garage than have it smell like the old people who lived here before me, fucking moth balls...
MOTH BALLS!?!? Yuck! I hear ya...I hate moth balls....but I still think its a bit scary to do this stuff on a hot stove. Just make sure its a non flammable type of cleaner and watch the amount of heat you use... I'd be wary of those fumes in an enclosed area too. Flathead Youngin... You mentioned using a block heater to heat THINNER as a safe alternative because of no flame. BAD IDEA! Thinner vapors will be everywhere and will explode if they come in contact with any spark. DON'T screw around with thinner! Use the proper non-flammable type of cleaner...it'll do a better job and keep you alive.
I was boiling mine in plain old water, then using an old toothbrush (well, it BECAME my old toothbrush soon enough) and one of those nail scrubbers to finish cleaning it up after boiling...if I would have used simple green or something it would have worked better...or something that at least doesn't foam up in boiling water...anywho, I'm not stupid enough to use anything flammable on my stove, I learned my lesson when I was a kid and I'm glad my eyebrows came back or I'd be one funny looking fat tattooed greaser...
The wife has a couple that the crock and the heater are separate so it would be easier to clean the junk out of the bottom. Cool post. Thanks Eric
Extra great idea since you can run an extension cord and let it sit outside!! You want the TRUE poor mans hot tank? Put a hot water spigot on your house. Serious. It's something no gearhead's driveway should be without.
#### ---- Hell yeah !! it'll give it that original greenish gold look !!! You guys are killing me LMAO >>>>.
Actually hot oil of any form is a powerful cleaner. Doesn't matter if it's veggie based, it'll still penetrate grime. You literally could use filtered fry grease as a deep-preclean for mechanisms like door latches. And in the morning when that night's hungry mice have had a few hours of soaking they'll be a tasty snack. Anything acidic and you're really just doing what's known as "pickling" in industrial apps. Very effective at removing rust and scale.
don`t forget to rinse out the crock pot real good with the hose before you take it back to the kitchen!
The wife got me a hotplate for Christmas so I quit boiling car parts in the house... Last night I got the daughter to sneak some starter parts into the dishwasher when her mother wasn't looking.
Nice! Nuthin' like some fried turkey, a boiled Stromberg carb. and some ice cold long neck Buds. Now that's livin'! Great ideas. Heading out to the Thift Store right after I type this.
Ok, you guys that is going to try it, let us know if it works. Did you Ian, or is this just an idea. Does it need to boil to create some action, curious minds want to know...
I just bought an 18 quart Nesco at Target last month - they had them on clearance for 10 bucks! Brand new! I knew that I should have bought 2
Seen a guy catch himselfe and the house on fire doing that, be careful. Gas fumes come out of the poors of the metal when heated.
When I first read this earlier today I went and pulled an old one out of the basement and mixed up some Simple Green and put some crusty old 5 hp Briggs parts in to cook. It did wonders for the lighter grease and dirt. The head with baked on oil and carbon deposits in the combustion chamber was a bifferent story. It didn't really touch them too much. I guess a little elbow grease is in order. Like others, I'm curious about what stronger solvent I might use. Anybody got any suggestions? I'm thinking about sitting it out in the middle of the driveway and putting kerosene or diesel in it. Yeah, sounds like a bad idea, huh?
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