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I’m sorting a bin of used LEGOs, and some are pretty dirty. Does the LUG have a preferred cleaning process?
I use a water/dish soap solution and an old toothbrush. Not the fastest method, but it works most of the time.
I use a nylon/mesh bag and do the normal washer dryer cycle with some towels to keep it quiet(er). I learned the hard way not to fill it completely though, too much weight ripped my bag once. May have just been the bag.
I used Josh’s method for a test run of bricks. They got pretty clean, but the LEGOs all bumped up against one another a million times, leaving lots of micro-dings on the smooth surfaces. I compared them to the other bricks which I had not washed. The other bricks also have micro-dings, but I believe the ones I washed have more, or more prominent, micro-dings.
Now I’m thinking about maybe trying the dishwasher, where they would not be moving around.
Wow there’s really a difference there! I don’t think I want to try the washing machine method. Dishwasher sounds good, but don’t they normally get pretty hot?
I wonder whether the dryer tumbling was really the culprit, rather than the washing machine. I may do some more tests and will report back. Also have to check the dishwasher temperature settings.
They were with towels in both the washer and dryer. I washed them on HOT though (wanted to kill the germs) but maybe that softened the surfaces?
I learned a lot of science at Aperture Laboratories…
Josh, is there any chance that you will have your oxy clean / peroxide mixture at the show? The castle has some bricks which need “sand blasting.”
That process takes a full day and lots of sunlight…you’ve got an email coming – to prevent the thread jack 😉
Wait, Josh, the topic is Cleaning – does the oxy clean / peroxide mixture clean? If so, details would be useful in this thread.
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