Morris Minor Owners Club

Any ideas how to effectively clean the crusty gunge that collects over time in a washing machine soap tray?
I've scoured ( ) the internet but can only find info that relates to a service wash to clean the internals out. I can remove the tray and wanted to know if there was some sort of solution I could dunk it in to disolve the crud. I'm fed up with cleaning it with tiddley bottle brushes!

Let it soak in a mixture of baking soda and white vinegar you will be amazed

Thank you. First job for the weekend booked in.

Don't use the tray in future, put the stuff in an open container and straight in the machine.

Yes, I think that is part of the problem. Powder and conditioner is not always washed fully out of the tray.

Just hot water and a small scrubbing brush cleans mine!

As far as I know the wife cleans mine.

Careful.

bmcecosse wrote:Just hot water and a small scrubbing brush cleans mine!

I think this one (it's not mine) is not cleaned regularly and residue turns to black slime and crusty bits over time. There are a miriad of tight bends, small tubes and corners on this flippin' thing.
Then I get a "can you just clean this for me, it looks a bit dirty?"

Just to close this one off, white vinegar did the trick, thanks irmscher
Didn't have any baking soda so just soaked in vinegar. Biological gunge came off straight away . Crusty stuff turned from hard to soft and chalk like so could be scraped off . Brilliant.

Now - look in the slot where the drawer slides.......I bet it is all 'black and horrible' in there.... not easy to access either.....

Bum, I'll spray some vinegar in there. At least the gunge came off easily.

Run at least one cycle without any powder afterwards or there will be trouble!

Ah, good point. I'll make sure a service wash is done although it would probably have been my clothes that caught the first wash.