Hey everyone! Jaystepher here today
with a tutorial on cleaning your Lego brick. I have a tub here with Lego.
Some of this I have found to be really dirty.
So I want to sort through my Lego
and find anything that's stuck together
or has stickers or printed elements.
We want to separate them. So I'm going to start separating anything that's separate like this.
Just go through the bin.
And if anything is stuck together like this,
were simply going to pop these off.
So I'm going to take a brick separator.
Start popping off some elements here,
but you do get the idea.
So take everything off and separate it. So here's one of the things that I'm going to do.
I wanna separate every piece so the water does not get trapped underneath.
So you want to separate everything. You also don't want Lego stuck together like this
because water can also get built up under there.
So we're going to take all this apart as well.
And you get the idea.
Also you want to be inspecting for any Lego that has stickers
such as this
and we'll wash these later. Those will have to be hand-washed with a towel.
And for other Lego that seems pretty dirty, we're going to soak this
in some slight soapy water. Now when you get to tires,
you just want to pop your tires off so you don't get no water built up.
Turntables are a little tricky.
You can either take these apart. If you're too worried about these either breaking,
these can be washed by hand. I might just set this off to the side here.
Here's another tire. We'll pop that out.
So what I'm going to do is continue separating. Like we have a mini-fig.
You don't want to put these in soapy water because you might end up rubbing off the print work or the face
These can be hand wiped.
So let me get sorting here,
and we'll start with the next step.
Okay so we got pieces right here on the far left that I'm going to end up washing by hand, but these are a little dirtier
and I want to set these in this container here. We're going to let them soak.
So I'm going to drop this down in this container here.
Now when you're washing, you don't want to do a whole bunch of brick at one time.
I would maybe do no more than two or three hundred pieces.
So let's fill this container up with some water.
We're going to put a little soap.
So I'm going to take some cold tap water. I'm just going to filling up the container a little bit.
Take just a drop of dish washing soap. Just a little. You don't want to flood the whole thing out.
Okay ... now what we want to do,
kind of just take your hand, just go around.
See the water is getting a little dirty as it is.
Tells me this Lego has a lot of grime on them. Buildup from years of play.
When you're getting dish washing soap or any kind of soap, you don't want it to have bleach.
It is the worst thing that you could have in you Lego
because it will dry out your Lego brick.
The soap I'm using is "Palm Olive".
And you can use any other kind. As long as it is mild dish washing detergent, you're fine.
So this is starting to see a lot of dirt at the bottom here.
Then what I'm going to do, I'm going to let this soak
for about ten minutes
and we'll begin the next step.
Now we're ready to rinse our Lego,
but I want to put a stop down in the bottom of the drain
to prevent any stray pieces from going down. It will be hard to get them back.
So I'm ready to rinse.
I'm going to take a strainer,
and I'm just going to pour these in here really slow.
Got some remaining pieces stuck at the bottom.
Now I'm going to run the water. Just cold water.
Rinse all that soap.
Using the strainer so the pieces don't fall out though the bottom.
The water falls out through the bottom but the pieces stay inside.
Make sure they are rinsed off real good. I'm going to tell you that this is already a lot whiter than it was before.
And the feel squeaky clean like they're brand spanking new.
Okay take the plug out the bottom.
I wanted to make sure in case a piece fell out of the strainer
that it didn't go down the drain.
You see how these little individual
spots here are holding water. We're going to take care of that.
Now I'm going to use an old cotton towel.
Spread it out.
Take our freshly washed Lego.
You can let this sit and drip dry, but I wouldn't recommend it.
So I'm going to start taking the pieces, setting them facing down
so the water can drain.
You can also just kind of pat your pieces dry.
Start setting things out.
This will take some time.
Now I have all my Lego separated. Now we need to dry.
I'm going to use a fan. Just plug this in. Put it on low.
Cool off the Lego brick.
Now I'm not using any forced air or forced heating.
I'm going to use just a simple cold air fan. Put it on the cold setting,
That right there should dry out these Lego.
We'll get a nice air dry finish. So come back in a few hours and your Lego will be clean and dry.
If there's some extra water in your Lego
just take a towel and pat them out.
Now let's begin on the extra pieces that we could not wash.
Now let's clean pieces that are printed or have stickers.
Mini-figs are real easy. I'm just going to take the hat off
and just pat them down just to take off the dust and some of the grime. You really don't want to rub too hard.
Just enough to knock the dust off.
Here's another printed piece.
Just wipe it all down.
Stickers, the same way. Very light and gentile. Another Mini-fig.
And our little turntable.
There we go.
Our clean printed pieces.
Now I can simply put these
into this bin here of the clean Lego
that I've just cleaned.
These look really good. Squeaky clean.
Now remember this was really dingy.
Now it's pure white.
It feels like brand new Lego once again. So I hope this tutorial helps you out
in cleaning your Lego.
And everything in this video is used for demonstration purposes,
and I am not liable for any lost or damaged pieces.
So you must do this at your own risk.
So enjoy your clean Lego.
Thank you for watching!