Putting cosmoline soaked parts in Dishwasher?

I have washed grungy chainsaw crank cases, cylinders, pistons etc in the dish washer for years. Hasn't killed me, yet.
 
The wood in the stock will be damaged by the process. The natural 'glue' of the wood will suffer. Somebody will tell me I'm wrong. Hooray for them
 
If you have a spare dishwasher in the shop/garage: Go for it. Does a great job but you need to turn up your water heater to 11 before you start.

If you are sharing the dishwasher with anyone who considers themselves to be female: At the very least you will be installing a brand new dishwasher before you eat another meal at home and you'll need a big magnet to separate the gun parts from the cat **** in the dumpster.
 
If you put cosmoline in your dishwasher you will surely remain SINGLE. Even GI Jane would not approve of that. There are good reasons it is called a dishwasher.
 
@ Ideal Tool -

Come on! but all the cases fit so nicely on all the little pegs on the rack! :p

Personally, I have used brake cleaner on the metal parts, and carb/choke cleaner on the wood coupled with a rag. works pretty good!
 
`Used to work great on my stainless Old Army after a long BP day at the range. (Just be sure to be there at cycle's end `cause things are gonna start rusting --even stainless--immediately!

I also aneal my 600gr pure lead smooth-sided paper-patch `74 Sharps bullets in the oven after casting--Turkey`n baked bullets has been the Thanksgiving joke around here for 30 years. :D
 
Had to reply to some of the oven comments lol my old boss when I worked at a gunshop had the idea to stick ak47 receives in the oven after spraying on that baking laqure ( however you spell it ) finish to let it treat, it for some reason made everything taste awful and his wife soon found out, which was always a really bad thing :)
 
I don't have a dishwashing appliance and I'm pretty sure if I try to stuff any cosmoline covered parts into the other dishwasher, I won't have that one very long either.
 
I'll probably sweat the stock in a trash bag in a few weeks, for about a day, and set it up so it will all run off the stock and into the bottom of the trash bag (i'm thinking I'll put the bag over a trashcan, with the stock laying across the rim and the end sealed in my yard.)
 
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