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Because a dishwasher will not sufficiently remove hydrocarbons as to effectively constitute oxygen clean.

While there are a number of worthy alternatives product wise to ardrox biox et al, their primary purpose is to remove hydrocarbons through acidic breakdown of corrosion, and detergent based removal of grease/dirt. Ideally an ultrasonic bath will remove these from hard to reach areas, however this is not essential and oxygen cleaning can be done without.

So even if you can get the correct cleaning solution/s into the dishwasher, a dishwasher is not going to sufficiently clean all the nooks and crannies. They are also not going to rinse products sufficiently.

"But it has worked for me" you say - well it will until it doesn't. If you can guarantee that adiabatic compression will never occur with your gear, or it will never get hot enough, then you can have your gear as dirty as you want. As for me, I have seen the results of an oxygen fire in a compressor, and smelt the toxic fumes emitted, and it is not something I want happening to my gear.

oh, and you won't necessarily know that a small oxygen fire has occurred - you will just be breathing those lovely toxic fumes. Viton is wonderful stuff.

Cheers,

Ben.

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