Do you really throw your harness in the dishwasher?

[alexdecker]

So… about to clean my harness. Several people have written in here that they just threw it in the dishwasher, and it came out like new.

I can't figure out if people are joking, or if this is the proper way to go about it? I mean… doesn't water come in everywhere? How much drying time?

- Alex

[Nurse Julie]

Yep, totally recognised way of cleaning looms. Just put it on a hot wash and it'll come up lovely.

[Sesman]

Yep, this what I did. Also cleaned the connectors in the ultrasonic and treated them to some contact  cleaner.

If you have a temperature setting, set it at 70degc.

[Matt_Harrington]

Well, you learn something everyday!! 
Matt

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

let us not forgetting how good Cillit Bang Limescale remover is for cleaning up electrical contacts.

[Lobo]

Ultrasonic cleaner @ 70C in a soap solution - came up like new. My only concern might be water trapped within the loom soaking the various internal connections over time - I guess hanging it vertically for a couple of days in an airing cupboard would sort that.

What particularly impressed me was the plugs - which were grubby inside / around the spades - but now like new.

[Spitfire]

Wish I had known about this back in 2007, I spent hours with WD40, rags, small files, and Brillo pads cleaning up every connector on my harness, then annointing them with dielectric grease.
I will know better in future.

Cheers

Dennis

[mike the bike]

I've done it few times, they come up like new.

[murdock]

even the motherboard of a computer can be washed with water and soap.

[kevski]

I don't have a dishwasher and i will be damned if i am going to stand at the sink and do it by hand

[Sesman]

Dishwasher….middle class labour saving device. We have to wash clothes with a dolly peg in’t stagnant pond….

[Laverda Dave]

If you do use the dishwasher make sure you run a cleaning cycle afterwards and before the o/h gets home!

[deltarider]

Dishwasher….middle class labour saving device. We have to wash clothes with a dolly peg in’t stagnant pond….

"You had a box?!"

[BigAl (Alan)]

Last time I cleaned an original loom (CB500K0) in my dishwasher, the connector covers became very opaque (as image)...water temperature or dishwasher tablet could be the problem? 

[Oddjob]

I have a brand new dishwasher sat in the shed that's been there since 1989, I kid you not. Intended to be used when kitchen was refitted but space was tight so we didn't bother. I was going to bin it or even offer it to the local TV company in case they wanted a period dishwasher for a TV show but I may just keep it and use it in the garage.

I have no idea what make it is and only bought it because I was working for Comet one night and when I got back to the depot they were having a sale of all the slightly damaged in transit goods and the dishwasher was dirt cheap.