Recommend me an inexpensive powerwash please

[Defender]

Can org members recommend me a cheap power wash that I can use to clean my SV650 please.

I've tried cleaning gloves and sponges of all sizes and cant get into all those nooks and crannies and underneath the bike. Although it wont be easy to get a hose pipe and mains from my house to the bike, I'm thinking a power wash (not too powerful) may be my only option.

Seen this on Argos's website:
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/7401932/Trail/C%24cip%3D1500011159.Garden%2C%2BDIY%2Band%2Bleisu re%3EC%24cip%3D1500011294.Pressure%2Bwashers.htm

All helpful comments appreciated.



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[kwak zzr]

i got a champion one @ ?39.99 does the job alto i wouldnt use it on the sv ooooooo nooooooo.

[Defender]

I tried a 5L pressurised sprayer (like you use to spray fences / insecticide) but it doesn't have enough power.

All ideas are welcome.

[sv-robo]

Fairy liquid bottle:)...(well you did say all ideas welcome)

[Defender]

Fairy liquid bottle:smile:...(well you did say all ideas welcome)

:smt022

[yorkie_chris]

Don't use one, get a long bristled scrubbing brush.

With power washers you take all the grease out of bearings and such, do more harm than good.

[Defender]

Thanks Chris :)

No one else has pointed that out.

[neio79]

you only take the grease out of the bearings if you wash those bits with it, for general cleaning just use it on its softest setting, it will be fine. I use a Karcher one for cleaning the Kwak. much quicker than a hose at shifting dirt.

[600+]

I got a Karcher from ebay - absolutely GREAT! was in a box and paid ?35 for it, does 330l/h and will do most of the jobs you need

I can proudly say that i'm the only house in my neighborhood with white flags in the garden now lol

also cleans the bike in no time :)

[tigersaw]

I had a Karcher and it packed up in no time. Then a laver(?) and that leaked everywhere. So I bought a cheap as chips power devil. The wheels have broken off and the case is mullered, but it works as good as ever 2 years later.
Then again I don't clean my bikes, the dirt falls off eventually anyway.

make sure you get a leccy safety RCD trip thingy too, unless your house fuse box has one protecting the circuit you will be using.

[Ed]

I have a JCB one that comes with brushes for the car. I haven't been brave enough to use it on the bike and I prefer Chris's suggestion of a long handled brush (not bristle).

[yorkie_chris]

Dizzyblonde has a scrubby thing with long plastic bristles on it, and her bikes are dead clean.

Ask her though, as I don't actually clean mine. :-P

[Ed]

Dizzyblonde ... her bikes are dead clean.

The camera never lies:D

[yorkie_chris]

http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=103561&highlight=shiny&page=15

see ere :-P

[Ed]

I was thinking more page 1 than page 15:smt103

[Quiff Wichard]

Dizzyblonde has a scrubby thing with long plastic bristles on it, and her bikes are dead clean.

Ask her though, as I don't actually clean mine. :-P



yea but thats from Anne summers..

[yorkie_chris]

I was thinking more page 1 than page 15:smt103

Lol you can't polish rust, and tbf it was her feller responsible for that bike getting into such a decayed state before she bought it.

Anyway I'm well chuffed with the result of that, now she's got all my oily fingerprints off it it looks lovely, well about as good as a faired bike can be expected to.

[metalmonkey]

Don't use one, get a long bristled scrubbing brush.

With power washers you take all the grease out of bearings and such, do more harm than good.

Yup I caught my neighbouir power washing his bike, I said no don't do that!

He now washes his without one, or when I'm around he decided to check and clean the chain as he done that for quite some time! He watched me cleaning the race bike, was like I never clean mine that way. Okay it won't fire properly but it was clean!

[northwind]

I've got a cheap B&Q one, it's rubbish frankly but that's all to the good, it's never going to degrease a bearing or blow off paint :p I mainly use it to squirt on cleaning stuff, and sometimes to do wheels. Also to clean paths. As long as you're careful where you point them they're fine IMO. But I could live without it easily enough.

[Razor]

I use one of these...

http://artillery.snake.de/CPS2500.jpg