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Crystal Chandalier in the Dishwasher?????
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Chandel=> French for Candle
See- it does pay to have a secondary DW-er for non food-related items like garbage pails, electronic air filters, car parts, ash trays, baseball caps, gummy shoes, small glass shelves from the medicine cabinet. etc.
HOW MUCH is that chandelier? FAINTS!
See- it does pay to have a secondary DW-er for non food-related items like garbage pails, electronic air filters, car parts, ash trays, baseball caps, gummy shoes, small glass shelves from the medicine cabinet. etc.
HOW MUCH is that chandelier? FAINTS!
Does anyone remember the chandelier cleaner from Wyman, I believe? The table was covered with plastic, then newspapers. This product was sprayed on the chandelier from an aerosol can, top to bottom and allowed to drip dry. The results were great.
Does anyone happen to remember the Palmolive dishwasher detergent commercial where they dipped a chandelier that was dripping long glass prisms into pancake batter and let it dry? The the chandelier was put in a dishwasher with the Palmolive and came out sparkling. The way the chandelier was suspended in the dishwasher made me think the dw was a Kenmore with the slide in/out bracket for the RotoRack. A friend used to take the chains of prisms off the fixture & drape them securely in the dw's top rack to wash them.
Then there was the one that fell onto a fully set table. "You don't need to bother putting those braces around the junction box." That was a shandalier...not from a French word.
Does anyone happen to remember the Palmolive dishwasher detergent commercial where they dipped a chandelier that was dripping long glass prisms into pancake batter and let it dry? The the chandelier was put in a dishwasher with the Palmolive and came out sparkling. The way the chandelier was suspended in the dishwasher made me think the dw was a Kenmore with the slide in/out bracket for the RotoRack. A friend used to take the chains of prisms off the fixture & drape them securely in the dw's top rack to wash them.
Then there was the one that fell onto a fully set table. "You don't need to bother putting those braces around the junction box." That was a shandalier...not from a French word.
I thought of that dishwasher detergent commercial immediately upon reading the thread topic. Was it pancake batter .. or egg?
Yup, pancake batter - I always thought it would be great to have a machine that could handle very large items like that.
I haven't used the spray & drip Wyman product, but I've heard it works well. Depending on the glass or crystal bobbles, it can do amazing things.
I haven't used the spray & drip Wyman product, but I've heard it works well. Depending on the glass or crystal bobbles, it can do amazing things.
oxydolfan1
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I have the chandelier cleaner from Hagerty.
It comes in a pump spray bottle.
I usually open a cheap umbrella, and hang it upside down from the chandelier, in order to catch the dirty drips.
It comes in a pump spray bottle.
I usually open a cheap umbrella, and hang it upside down from the chandelier, in order to catch the dirty drips.
Yes, it was pancake batter!
I remember that commercial, too...it was around 1972 or 1973, and it showed a chandelier being dipped into pancake batter...
"A chandelier...dipped in PANCAKE BATTER? What a test for the first lemon-freshened dishwasher powder, NEW PALMOLIVE CRYSTAL CLEAR!"
It was Colgate's first attempt to extend the Palmolive brand name to automatic dishwasher detergent, and it was also known for the its first package--a box that looked something like an old-fashioned flat-top milk carton. I remember Consumer Reports criticizing the package because it looked like a carton of refrigerated lemonade, and warning users to keep the package away from children.
(Actually, Colgate had made another dishwasher detergent in the early 1960s--a powder called Vel-O-Matic...which lasted about as long as it took me to write this sentence!
I remember that commercial, too...it was around 1972 or 1973, and it showed a chandelier being dipped into pancake batter...
"A chandelier...dipped in PANCAKE BATTER? What a test for the first lemon-freshened dishwasher powder, NEW PALMOLIVE CRYSTAL CLEAR!"
It was Colgate's first attempt to extend the Palmolive brand name to automatic dishwasher detergent, and it was also known for the its first package--a box that looked something like an old-fashioned flat-top milk carton. I remember Consumer Reports criticizing the package because it looked like a carton of refrigerated lemonade, and warning users to keep the package away from children.
(Actually, Colgate had made another dishwasher detergent in the early 1960s--a powder called Vel-O-Matic...which lasted about as long as it took me to write this sentence!
Along the lines of having a spare dishwasher for non-food items is also an old oven for non-food items. i have an old junk gas oven that I use to bake enamel finishes onto engine and other metal parts, along with molding plastic, and other "non food" items
I remember ads for Vel-O-Matic! Vel was a liquid hand dishwashing detergent and the "O-Matic" designated the new product for machine dishwashing. Is Palmolive the only successful brand name for both hand and machine dishwashing detergents? The name Palmolive came from when the company made soap and those were the two oils used in the formula.
We try to keep a spare self-cleaning oven or two either at the shop or at home for cleaning up parts and used cookware. If it's during the winter the oven is inside to take advantage of the heat. In warmer seasons, it is used outside, but hidden from view.
We try to keep a spare self-cleaning oven or two either at the shop or at home for cleaning up parts and used cookware. If it's during the winter the oven is inside to take advantage of the heat. In warmer seasons, it is used outside, but hidden from view.
Jet Dry...
I mentioned in another post a while back that I used Jet Dry in the rinse water when I cleaned my chandelier. Seems to have worked well. Our dining room chandelier has 15 lights and hundreds of crystals (unfortunately not Swarovski...) and it used to take 4 or 5 hour to clean it. I've got it down to about an hour now - sort of based on dishwasher technology.
I wash the crystals in hot water with a bit of soap and some ammonia. then I rinse the crystals with very hot water and put them in a bucket of very hot water with a few drops of Jet Dry. I pour the watter off then remove the crystals from the bucket and rehang them. Since they are hot they dry almost immediately.
I'd love to be able to toss them in the dishwasher but I haven't come up with a method yet --- I'm open to suggestions though...
I mentioned in another post a while back that I used Jet Dry in the rinse water when I cleaned my chandelier. Seems to have worked well. Our dining room chandelier has 15 lights and hundreds of crystals (unfortunately not Swarovski...) and it used to take 4 or 5 hour to clean it. I've got it down to about an hour now - sort of based on dishwasher technology.
I wash the crystals in hot water with a bit of soap and some ammonia. then I rinse the crystals with very hot water and put them in a bucket of very hot water with a few drops of Jet Dry. I pour the watter off then remove the crystals from the bucket and rehang them. Since they are hot they dry almost immediately.
I'd love to be able to toss them in the dishwasher but I haven't come up with a method yet --- I'm open to suggestions though...
I used to wash my parents chandy in the dishwasher using a colander. Everything was nice and clean and ready to hang after the cycle ends.
I do not ever want to own one since it was cleaned twice a year! I should have charged my parent for slave wages pay........
I do not ever want to own one since it was cleaned twice a year! I should have charged my parent for slave wages pay........
You'll be SWELL....
I believe Ethel Merman did ads for VEL.
Don't recall if she stooped to "You'll be SWELL with VEL".
I believe Ethel Merman did ads for VEL.
Don't recall if she stooped to "You'll be SWELL with VEL".
OMG - SHE DID!
Ethel DID do the "SWELL" routine for "VEL".
Watch her dunk roses into VEL on YouTube.
Ethel DID do the "SWELL" routine for "VEL".
Watch her dunk roses into VEL on YouTube.
rolls_rapide
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No it is not.
In the UK, Proctor & Gamble's "Fairy" brand is used for hand and dishwasher detergents (in addition to laundry products).
In other European countries "Dreft" is used in the place of the "Fairy" name.
In certain Scandanavian countries (Sweden, I think) "Yes" is used.
There used to be another hand-dishwashing liquid by the name of "SquEzy" (possibly a Unilever brand). I have a sneaky feeling that that label was sold off to another maker several years ago. Anyway, I have come across "SquEzy" as a tablet dishwasher detergent, sold through those low-cost stores that purport to be a cross between a chemist's and an ironmonger's store.
No it is not.
In the UK, Proctor & Gamble's "Fairy" brand is used for hand and dishwasher detergents (in addition to laundry products).
In other European countries "Dreft" is used in the place of the "Fairy" name.
In certain Scandanavian countries (Sweden, I think) "Yes" is used.
There used to be another hand-dishwashing liquid by the name of "SquEzy" (possibly a Unilever brand). I have a sneaky feeling that that label was sold off to another maker several years ago. Anyway, I have come across "SquEzy" as a tablet dishwasher detergent, sold through those low-cost stores that purport to be a cross between a chemist's and an ironmonger's store.
whirlcool
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All was available as a laundry detergent as well as a detergent for dishwashers for awhile. They called it "Dishwasher All".
In our last house we had a relatively large chandalier in our foyer. After it caught a lot of dust, we spent a Saturday disassembling it and putting it in the dishwasher. We used 1 drop of Dawn. Believe it or not it didn't oversuds. The results were very good. However, it took us a long time later to reassemble the damn thing. Then a few months later we noticed mild corrosion on the wires that held the crystal together. I promised never to do that one again!
In our last house we had a relatively large chandalier in our foyer. After it caught a lot of dust, we spent a Saturday disassembling it and putting it in the dishwasher. We used 1 drop of Dawn. Believe it or not it didn't oversuds. The results were very good. However, it took us a long time later to reassemble the damn thing. Then a few months later we noticed mild corrosion on the wires that held the crystal together. I promised never to do that one again!
