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I'm sure that we have all done things that seemed like an incredibly great idea at the time. Most of mine seemed to always involve my wife. Maybe you can learn from my mistakes.
1) Do not under any circumstance use your wife's Tupperware for any reason. Parts washer, tiny parts storage, tool organizer, ABSOLUTLEY nothing!
2) The oven is not to be used to warm up leather riding gear so that the Sno-Seal will go on better. Also not to be used to reheat said gear to allow the snow grease to penetrate.
3) Once you agree to never put leather in the oven again you should also check to see if that edict applies to your old waxed Belstaff cotton gear. Don't assume. Trust me, bad things will happen.
4) More on the oven. Somehow that device has attained sacred status. Never ever use the oven to cure multiple coats of Kal-Guard piston coat. 3 hours per coat at 275 degrees does emit a toxic cloud. I'm not sure if it's always fatal but best to open the doors and windows. Also get the kids out and over to the neighbors or better yet, Grandma's
5) Good gawd, more oven restrictions. It seems that my wife likes to cook food in our oven so using it to cure freshly painted cylinder barrels is no longer an acceptable practice. Same rule applies to any and all parts.
6) The dishwasher is NOT a parts washer even though it works great. Aluminum parts should not be washed with automatic dishwasher soap as it's too corrosive. One healthy squirt of Dawn liquid does a stand up job on aluminum. I found out that two squirts is one too many. My wife came home from doing girl stuff and opened the dishwasher after the two squirt experiment. She sure doesn't have a good sense of humor on some things. The inside of the washer looked like it contained the worlds largest meringue. I assured her that the rinse cycle would take care of it. She assured me that if I put one more motorcycle part in her dishwasher that she would stuff me in there just because.
7) Never use up the distilled water and lemon juice to boil out your Amals. I shouldn't have used one of her Teflon pots either. Those scratches in the finish mean that you will be buying a whole new cookware set. We sure as heck can't just replace the trashed pot with a non matching unit from Walmart. Heaven forbid.
8) More on distilled water. It wasn't purchased for topping off batteries or for rinsing off Norton fuel tanks. I found out the hard way that it was only to be used to fill the clothes iron. Heck, I didn't even know that we owned an iron since I had never ever seen it in use. I probably shouldn't have mentioned that last part to my wife as she offered to introduce me face to face with the iron. Gulp!
Now it's time for this group to share some of your hard earned knowledge.
1) Do not under any circumstance use your wife's Tupperware for any reason. Parts washer, tiny parts storage, tool organizer, ABSOLUTLEY nothing!
2) The oven is not to be used to warm up leather riding gear so that the Sno-Seal will go on better. Also not to be used to reheat said gear to allow the snow grease to penetrate.
3) Once you agree to never put leather in the oven again you should also check to see if that edict applies to your old waxed Belstaff cotton gear. Don't assume. Trust me, bad things will happen.
4) More on the oven. Somehow that device has attained sacred status. Never ever use the oven to cure multiple coats of Kal-Guard piston coat. 3 hours per coat at 275 degrees does emit a toxic cloud. I'm not sure if it's always fatal but best to open the doors and windows. Also get the kids out and over to the neighbors or better yet, Grandma's
5) Good gawd, more oven restrictions. It seems that my wife likes to cook food in our oven so using it to cure freshly painted cylinder barrels is no longer an acceptable practice. Same rule applies to any and all parts.
6) The dishwasher is NOT a parts washer even though it works great. Aluminum parts should not be washed with automatic dishwasher soap as it's too corrosive. One healthy squirt of Dawn liquid does a stand up job on aluminum. I found out that two squirts is one too many. My wife came home from doing girl stuff and opened the dishwasher after the two squirt experiment. She sure doesn't have a good sense of humor on some things. The inside of the washer looked like it contained the worlds largest meringue. I assured her that the rinse cycle would take care of it. She assured me that if I put one more motorcycle part in her dishwasher that she would stuff me in there just because.
7) Never use up the distilled water and lemon juice to boil out your Amals. I shouldn't have used one of her Teflon pots either. Those scratches in the finish mean that you will be buying a whole new cookware set. We sure as heck can't just replace the trashed pot with a non matching unit from Walmart. Heaven forbid.
8) More on distilled water. It wasn't purchased for topping off batteries or for rinsing off Norton fuel tanks. I found out the hard way that it was only to be used to fill the clothes iron. Heck, I didn't even know that we owned an iron since I had never ever seen it in use. I probably shouldn't have mentioned that last part to my wife as she offered to introduce me face to face with the iron. Gulp!
Now it's time for this group to share some of your hard earned knowledge.