How do you clean?

[Gustavo Woltmann]

Every now and then I stumble upon a rare set on eBay that ... I must have. Once it arrives, it must get 'sanitized'. What I do is, disassemble totally, immerse in hot water, and pour a generous amount of dishwasher soap on the parts, then I mix/stir the whole thing few times and let it 'bathe' overnight. The dishwasher soap has a tendency to 'eat-up' the dirt so, in general, no brushing is needed. I've 'read' some people throw the whole thing in a clothes washer ... but with small technic pieces, one needs a fine mesh bag of the sorts. This also applies to assembled sets that have been sitting on a shelf for some time and accumulated few microns of dust as well.

What 'technique' do you use ... and have found to work best?

[hadidi1999]

I was wondering the exact same question yesterday, a while ago our kitchen went up in flames, and soot and smoke has made its way to every brick in every corner of the house.

[VintageLegoEra]

I never advice for putting in tje washing machine/ dishwasher as it will scratch the bricks. Soaking parts for hours in a dish detergent is safe method to maintain the quality of bricks

[Agent Kallus]

My dishwasher has melted bricks when I tried this(well not melted but seriously warped).

[Patgeo]

I also beleive that the method that VintageLegoEra applies is the best for the safety of the bricks. All the other methods may seriously damage the Lego bricks, as it happened to AgentKallus of Hydra's bricks.