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| Posted: Wed Aug 15th, 2012 01:36 pm |
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Eddie Katcher
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Quick question:
Anyone around here using an ultrasonic parts washer to clean carb bodies (or any other part), and if so, what are you using for solutions or solvents?
I seems like a good idea.
puttnikdude
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| Posted: Wed Aug 15th, 2012 01:48 pm |
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Steve Miller
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id like to here more ..i soda blast everything ...they deffinatly look new again ...but its expensive .. 
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| Posted: Wed Aug 15th, 2012 02:03 pm |
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Terry Schmitz
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My sonic cleaner has about a 6" x 6" well, I haven't used it for carbs yet just know not supposed to use flammable liquids. mine gets the fluids hot cleaning jewelry
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| Posted: Wed Aug 15th, 2012 05:03 pm |
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| Posted: Wed Aug 15th, 2012 06:17 pm |
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David Luciani
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eddie,
most ultersound solutions have amonia in them.
turns magnesium gray.
i suppose if you make your own bath it might be ok.
i'd test with a part i didn't care about first.
does clean stuff effectively.
dave
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| Posted: Wed Aug 15th, 2012 08:48 pm |
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Gary Wlodarsky
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David..hit the nail on the head...do not use it on anything with any Magnesiun in it...like old Mac blocks...ruins them cosmetically
gw
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| Posted: Wed Aug 15th, 2012 08:57 pm |
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| Posted: Wed Aug 15th, 2012 11:58 pm |
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Eddie Katcher
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I plan on filling it with methanol and putting it on the slab outside the basement door and blast them evil gremmies lurking in some of my carb bodies.
pnd
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| Posted: Thu Aug 16th, 2012 01:31 am |
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Gary Wlodarsky
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David,,,yeah that was a sad day ..no, not because of meeting you ...LOL...but, two Mac 45 blocks ruined....
gw
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| Posted: Thu Aug 16th, 2012 01:37 am |
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| Posted: Thu Aug 16th, 2012 02:14 am |
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tom perry
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PND,
Back in the day when I worked for the big X, we used trichlorethylene III in a large 2'x2' industrial ultrasonic dip tank. it works well for toner on alum, S/S or sheet metal. I even cleaned a few engine parts off my army truck.
By the early 90's we switched to freon for enerivonmental reasons. I can't remember what grade it was. It worked just as good and I did not have near as many headaches as with trichlor.
Tom
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| Posted: Thu Aug 16th, 2012 02:40 am |
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| Posted: Thu Aug 16th, 2012 02:43 am |
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| Posted: Thu Aug 16th, 2012 03:04 am |
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Eddie Katcher
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I am really just trying to clean out all those nasty little passages that are just waiting to plug up and you know, make me really angry.
One of my boat racing buds "had" a 20 gallon barrel of carb cleaner. He actually had his shop in a rent-a-warehouse and was running everything off the one light circuit. That in itself was funny enough but I have no idea what he left soaking in the cleaning solution that reacted in the barrel. The solution ate through the bottom of the barrel and ran out under the side of the metal building where...........well, it ate through the wall too.
Landlord not too impressed with that one.
I gotcha Tom............better cleaning through chemistry.
See you guys in two weeks at TBO.
pnd
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| Posted: Thu Aug 16th, 2012 04:11 am |
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Alvin A. Klusman, Jr. (Torque)
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Guys,
Use WATER in the ultrasound cleaner-no aditive-just water.
Any chemestry major will tell you that water is the universal solivent.
The ultrasonic cleaner HEATS the water and the "Vibes" clears the passages.
Also water will not hurt aluminum.
Regards,
TORQUE
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| Posted: Thu Aug 16th, 2012 11:40 am |
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| Posted: Thu Aug 16th, 2012 12:36 pm |
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| Posted: Thu Aug 16th, 2012 12:55 pm |
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Steve Miller
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verg im not doin good here ..!! its impossibile .!! it cant be mid aug. already .. wow how time flys when you work 14-16 hours a day .
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