Ultrasonic cleaner

[Charlie,Participant @charlie18171]

Liddles are doing a small ultrasonic cleaner for £19-99, Recomeded

for cleaning jewlery-coins watch straps false teeth etc,Its quite small

doubt if er indoors can fit her teeth in it,Bought one, Tried it and i am

totaly unimpressed,After 8 minits buzzing no visible improvement to

the artical being tried,Could do better with a soft brass wire brush in

60 seconds,In my opinion a total waste of time and money,

[Charlie,Participant @charlie18171]

[JohnFParticipant @johnf59703]

Charlie, you pays your money and ! ! ! these small units will only clean jewellery etc, if you want to do engineering items you need to go for a much larger unit and it will cost you £250 to £500 or more but you will get good results providing you use the correct additive in the fluid.

I have been using one to clean parts with ingrained muck for many years now and its the best labour saving item to date. You need one with at least 1 gallon + or 5-6 litres capacity and preferably a heater–have a look at this link.

This is not my unit I bought it elsewhere before these guys came on the ME scene but a pal bought one of these to clean carburettors and he is well pleased.

http://www.machine-dro.co.uk/6-5-litre-ultrasonic-cleaner-with-200w-heater-dial-control.html

[Phil PParticipant @philp]

My job is designing ultrasonic cleaning machines, and I agree that you certainly get what you pay for.

 

It all depends on what type of article you are trying to clean, and what you are trying to clean from it.

There are various water based fluids you can use, and some of our more specialised machines for cleaning optical lenses etc use solvents, but those are NOT for home use.

 

For cleaning general crud from watch straps etc, just plain water with a few drops of washing up liquid added should be OK.

For cleaning carburettor passage ways I often use white spirit.

And for cleaning and brightening brass clock parts, I use an ammonia based solution.

 

We send machines out to China for cleaning computer parts, and they use De-Ionised water.

The machines are not bench top ones though, they are 12 metres long with six robot loaded baths that you could go for a swim in !!

 

Just a word of caution, be wary about putting precious gemstones in one.

Any barely visible flaws will probably be opened up and it can split them. 

 

Phil

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited By Phil P on 21/12/2011 22:58:24

[Charlie,Participant @charlie18171]

Thanks chaps

I cant argue with what your saying, And thanks for taking the trouble

to say it, At my age i ought to have known better, But i dont have the

amount of cleaning to justify the cost of a proper one, And i also dont

have the space to put it,One dose not apreciate how valuable space

is until one runs out of it,

Best regards ,

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