Steam cleaners?

mr.z · World Chat Champion Joined: 04 Feb 2004 Karma :

Anyone tryed one?

Borrowed a cheap one, mixed toughts really.. on some parts it worked brilliantly, on plastics/fiberglass (painted bits) it was pants, totaly pointless, even carefull blasting it would dry over and filth would still be there...

On metal parts it worked great, in particlar the wheels and the final drive, it was difficult to see on the black parts, same colour as the dirt and all.. but it got it all off eventually, the slightly iffy paint got flailed off but expected that.. dirt that was blasted off needed wipeing off (normal people with a garden hose could do it that way Thumbs Up

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Took 6 refills to go arround the wheels (parts theres no feckin way could be cleaned normally), the suspension, a faring and some of the frame.. but that its not had a good clean for a couple of months! and its a small kettle sized steam cleaner from woolywoofs..

Just thought anyone looking at one would like to know Wink

it would be prefect for a nekid bike i think, just point it at the fiddley parts and it blows all the crud away!
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Itchy · Super Spammer Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Karma :

so do jet washes , steam cleaners are great for greasy kitchens though they cut through the worst crud.

LUXY DJ · World Chat Champion Joined: 25 Sep 2005 Karma :

when my bike was FILLLLLLTHY! (white wheels aswell) i tried a jet wash & i started giving the wheels some but b4 you know it it beeps/sirens were you gotta move on to the nex thing(brush,foam,etc) so that didnt do JACKSHIT in the end i took it to a valants place were they do cars ex & internally but asked if they could do my bike & they said yes & said a pearl-diver(£5) so i said ok & they used the steam-cleaner & it done the job WICKED! Thumbs Up

+ everything else got a NICE clean up cause i paid for it so they did it! Mr. Green

S-A DONE!!

B4!
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AFTER!
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mr.z · World Chat Champion Joined: 04 Feb 2004 Karma :

Freekin eck! how did you get it so manky!!!

£5 isn't bad! but i guess compared to a car its a piece of pish...

Would be worth getting them to clean up the underbits of the bike that are hard to get at before dissassembleing things like suspension...

Was impressed for the most part, a higher pressure higher capacity cleaner would do a better job i think, so might invest later (seeing as it'll allways be usefull for whatever bike)
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southlondoner · Scooby Slapper Joined: 14 Feb 2006 Karma :

woah luxy them wheels were nearly black all over Laughing

good improvement though Thumbs Up

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LUXY DJ · World Chat Champion Joined: 25 Sep 2005 Karma :

that was after a few weeks of abuse when i was using it for couriering but even the clean pic of the wheel is not PERFECT they could of got abit better but they were kinda SLAVING cleaning it cause i gave it a "GO" but that muck on the wheel wernt aving it so was tld to try them & for a fiver i thought thats MINOR

but tbh white wheels get dirty quick anyway

also that pic was when i just let it go abit once it started getting like that ...till i got another bike for work
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SoND · World Chat Champion Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Karma :

How could the wheel get so black and your C&S are mint?
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LUXY DJ · World Chat Champion Joined: 25 Sep 2005 Karma :

coz they were fitted while bike was stil filthy

Wink

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king kong · Nearly there... Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Karma :

quote]mr.z wrote:
Freekin eck! how did you get it so manky!!!

£5 isn't bad! but i guess compared to a car its a piece of pish...

Would be worth getting them to clean up the underbits of the bike that are hard to get at before dissassembleing things like suspension...

Was impressed for the most part, a higher pressure higher capacity cleaner would do a better job i think, so might invest later (seeing as it'll allways be usefull for whatever bike)[/quote]

I would get a decent tax disc holder though![

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LUXY DJ · World Chat Champion Joined: 25 Sep 2005 Karma :

what is this?..i only posted to show the bloody steam clean diff

i did think some 1 would start saying about the tax disc & rearset tho Thumbs Up

but FUCK knows about the tax disc but the rearsets were taken off to do something cant remember what tho Confused

but there off atm aswell cause they were sprayed but now sanded them down to a shiny finish

BTW anyone know how to get rid of the mankyness which is on the sub frame part? it might av been salt from roads,etc but how do i get rid? cause iv tried a few things but nope
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