a perspective view of the brush station fig8 shows a top view of the brush station fig9 shows a perspective view of the brush station with a workpiece 5 inserted in between the roller brushes 15 fig1 shows the brush station with two of the four roller brushes 15 removed from the hollow shaft 85 within fig1 and fig1 show a perspective and top view respectively of another embodiment of this invention whereby there are only three roller brushes 15 to each brush station referring to fig1 2 and 3 the workpiece cleaning apparatus is constituted of two rows of four brush stations 10 11 12 13 and 16 17 18 19 in each row each brush station 10 comprising two pairs of roller brushes 15 and a pair of edgewheels with an upper edgewheel 30 33 and a lower edgewheel 31 34 in each row when the apparatus is switched on the pair of roller brushes 15 rotate in a mirror like fashion that is to say in an opposite direction to each other the pair of edgewheels 30 31 can assume two positions a first position whereby the upper edgewheel 30 and lower edgewheel 31 are located closer together and a second position whereby the upper edgewheel 30 and lower edgewheel 31 are located further apart the brush stations 10 11 12 13 are separated.