FOAK: Paging the Ultrasonicisti

Right, bought a 2.5l ultrasonic cleaner from maplins and just been
playing with it and put a cack old carb in

to be honest it doesnt look much cleaner than it went in :-/

am i missing a trick here or what?

im using it on the heated setting, even a bit of washing up liquid in
there too and on longest settings.

 

UC's are somewhat over rated but you might want to think about something a
bit stronger on the old chemical front

 

I use a UC regularly and for my purposes warm soapy water is good.
I used to use ammonia in there too but it fairly stinks.
I have wondered about using parafin or diesel (explosive?) for dirty
bike bits or even a Gunk type additive in the mix.

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Pete Fisher said:

Was about to do the latter then thought better and stripped it.

what i didnt do at first though was clean any crud off it as i thought
it may do that with the ultrasonics.

I'm wondering if I should have degreased it and possibly a bit of brake
cleaner to clean out any oil etc.

It says it goes to a max of 65 degrees, and set it for the max time
which is 8 mins.

 

'Hog said:

hmm yes, it came with a flyer about some sea clean concentrate that
will apparantly remove tarnishes, carbon and even rust it says.

 

Ah, I do give things a bit of a blast with standard carb cleaner first.

Mine can go much longer. I generally use a 30 degrees for 30 minutes
cycle. Though Simon Wilson warns me I might burn it out if I repeat that
too soon/often.



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I have a can of 'Green' i.e. eco friendly gunk in reserve, but the 50%
Autoglym stuff seems to work OK. It certainly sorted out the Keihin from
SWMBO's Honda.

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Pete Fisher said:

Is yours the ebay one, been looking at that now that I remember,
thinking I might have been better spending the extra..

 

Yes, I got mine from an Ebay source. I didn't know Maplins did one big
enough to hold a carb body.

I naughtily used it for a bit of hyper-degreasing on some rear
suspension linkages recently (so that I could heat them in our cooker)
and seem to have got away with it.

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SCISSORS, YOU ****. KNOW HOW TO USE THEM?

 

petrolcan said:

Jaysus, to think I share the same genepool as that, still, I know it
got shallower as time went on

 

Pete Fisher said:

Tis only a small carb to be fair, but now Ive looked im thinking I
should have planned on it being able to take larger ones :-( A YTC
number in the making methinks.

 

Maybe try some Clit Bang in it.