Pressure washer cleaning

[D_B]

... all very good points about the damage high pressure water jets can do, and how careful you have to be using them, and only on things that can take it , I've seen the damage that can be done to a cars finish, trim, and electrical systems, by the use of high pressure water sprays (you know that they use a water jet to cut steel plate)

I have found that a whirlpool bath is an excellent means of washing scuba gear. N

Cool! I can wear my gear and clean it at the same time

 

[1_T_Submariner]

I would not use a car wash either for my gear. First, they often recycle waer and it also may have chemicals in it. Second, they produce fairly high pressure that will damage the gear and as well if you point one at your skin at close range it may well damage you.

This about made me spit out my coffee I was thinking about the kind with the cloth hanging from the ceiling and the big rotating brushes The free wax sure would make the gear shine!!

 

[Nemrod]

Just make sure you retract your retractors before waddling through the brushes!!!!!!!!!!

Tire dressing for the flippers sir?

N

 

[Hank49]

Back in about 84 or so I was stupid enough to try holding a stainless steel water screen while a guy I worked with blasted it with a 1,600 psi power washer. I slipped and the spray, about 4 inches from the nozzel, hit my index finger for a split second. The result was about as clean of a skin removal as a new razor blade could have done.
You could safely wash your gear with a high pressure washer but from.....6 feet away?, which would have about as much pressure as a garden hose.