The kitchen dishwasher cleans up parts quite nicely. Use with caution.
Practical experience allows me to provide the following tips in the temporary re-purposing of domestic appliances
Firstly, buy a stainless steel lined dishwasher, now only is it easier to clean in an emergency, unlike plastic it doesn't bond with stuff like Gearbox oil leaving a tell-tale smear for the wife to find.
You should allow time to use and fully clean any temporarily re-purposed domestic appliance before the wife arrives home. She may have her suspicions regarding the suspicious cleanliness, but cant prove anything.
If you use a domestic oven to heat components that contain oil of grease, be prepared to run the oven for an extended "self-clean" period, followed by a cleaning with the smelliest Oven cleaner you can find. It is also important to shut down air-conditioning/central heating and open the house up fully for the duration lest residual smells give you away.
Funnily enough the only domestic appliance temporary re-purposing that got me into serious sh!t was using the wife's favorite (and near brand new) food processor to turn Nitroprill fertilizer into powder, the more easily to combine it with zinc oxide, sulphur and powdered B-B-Q brickettes in order to make solid rocket fuel.
The rocket fuel was a roaring (literally) success but the blade on the food processor was somewhat 2nd hand. Meals of hot tongue and cold shoulder were the result.
