When I was working at another shop in town
we used an aqueous parts washer as well. It would heat the solution and dispense
like any other washer. Great thing about it was there were no fumes and as the
solution would evaporate you would only have to add water to the mixture. It
is still recommended to use gloves because of all the dissolved chemicals and
grease in the mixture however I never had a pair of work gloves get eaten by it.
If I can I will find out where and who made that particular one.
-Joe
Joseph Parietti
Program Coordinator
Bike Works
(206) 725-9408
From:
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[mailto:thethinktank-bounces@lists.bikecollectives.org] On Behalf Of Eric Estlund
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006
8:46 AM
To: The Think Tank
Subject: Re: [TheThinkTank]
Washing Parts
We would do well to get a pair of industrial chemical gloves. There are
several places in town that sell them. In the master plan, it would make sense
to hava cleaning room that vented out ala fume hood. There are also several
recyclable chemical cleaners as well, i'll try and follow up with their names
(blanking at the moment).
Thanks,
Eric (slc collective)
On 11/1/06, Jonathan
Morrison <jonathan@slcbikecollective.org>
wrote:
What does everyone else do to wash parts?
We have a one 10 gallon parts washer full of industrial solvent and we
go through Nitrile gloves like nobody else. It cleans great and
fast,
but that solvent smells, isn't good on the skin, and isn't fun to
dispose of.
We were thinking about getting an Aqueous Parts Washer, that heats up
a Simple Green mixture. Has anyone had any experience with these?
If you create dealer login on ParkTool.com (only takes a second) you
can browse their shop products. The one we were looking at was the
"APW-2 - Aqueous Parts Washer Floor Model"
(http://www.parktool.com/images/products/productimages/spr_APW_2_200589_34760.jpg
)
--
Sincerely,
Jonathan Morrison
Project Coordinator
2312 S. West
w: 801-328-2453
c: 801-688-0183
www.slcbikecollective.org
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