Today -I have been mostly ultrasonically cleaning carbs.

[Steptoe]

Had a bike in with blocked up passage ways in the carbs.

I know of ultrasonic cleaning but have no experiance of it. So blagged a proper unit and give it a go.

Cranked up the temperature and left the Bing to cook.

It's like a small deep fat frier.










You can see the effect around the exposed parts of the carb.



Nice and shiney finish, and the choke now seems to work when starting.

Now looking around for other things i can throw in it.

 

[Kenny]

Form a queue everybody

 

[Shep]

Great for cleaning metal watch straps and quality jewellery

If it hasn't got a heater built in warm water gets everything moving quicker

 

[Steptoe]

Great for cleaning metal watch straps and quality jewellery

If it hasn't got a heater built in warm water gets everything moving quicker

Funnily enough this is a watch repairers unit.

And has a very good heater built in.

 

[Sylvester]

Looks cool but still not convinced it's better than the elbow grease/selection of toothbrushes/solvents and compressed air combo. At least you can let it soak and do something else while it cleans.

 

[Steptoe]

Looks cool but still not convinced it's better than the elbow grease/selection of toothbrushes/solvents and compressed air combo. At least you can let it soak and do something else while it cleans.

Watch my lips -it cleans out the tiny blocked pasageways in the carb bodies that are inaccessible.

They get blocked when fuel evaporates and leave a hard residue.

 

[Packer]

Early '80's in Weymouth a guy had a mobile unit with baths long enough to take venetian blinds and others shaped to take cooker components.

Manky blinds uncleaned for years came out like new, even the strings!

Oven trays, racks etc. thick with baked on/carbonised grease etc. that had never seen a cleaning product also came out like new. We used him for cleaning reflow solder equipment. Saved hours of hard work.

Very effective and it doesn't damage the product.

 

[Redboots]

They work. End of story.
I stripped mine before putting them in the pot though...

John

 

[Steptoe]

There's a mobile man around here who does the golf clubs cleaning the members clubs/irons.

I asked him about cleaning carbs and motorcycle parts and he didn't have a clue - he thought it only worked on golf clubs he'd only been doing it a couple of months, i told him your limiting your market, get out there, got to be worth visiting the motorcycle dealers in the area.

His unit size was just a bit smaller than a washing machine.

 

[DavidHale]

They're good for cleaning spray guns too.

 

[MattW]

I have a little one (cheap off ebay). It's very basic in that it doesn't have a heater (I use hand hot water and a dash of detergent) but it does the job.

I got it for cleaning parts of my scuba diving regulators when I service them (much the same as carbs they have small passageways etc which get clogged - they also calcify due to spending their life in seawater).

It's not big enough to take a full carb but it would take disassembled 'chunks'. It's also great for cleaning watch straps / jewellery etc (its intended purpose I think).

It works so well I bought another for use with solvents (works very well with naptha - panel wipe - on greasy bits of motorbike etc) so I can have a dedicated one for water use only (don't want to pickle my diving regs).

 

[AberdeenAngus]

Tried doing a metal watch strap........uuurrrggghhhh !

Works well with paraffin too for the gunky bits

but eerm maybe not with the heater on.

 

[cookie]

neil,

what solvent does your tank use?

 

[Damien]

It took me hours just to get one carb clean using brushes and detergent. Can you get one that will take a complete g/s?

 

[(RIP) Proff]

I've blagged one, using a solvent at the moment, it came with it..
VERY VERY impressed Cleans all the crap out of the niggly bing slow running jet very easily.
Just remember that it works 100% better with LID ON !!!

It WILL be at the airhead weekend for others to play with

 

[Packer]

It took me hours just to get one carb clean using brushes and detergent. Can you get one that will take a complete g/s?

You need the ride in version

 

[Shep]

neil,

what solvent does your tank use?

We use RD5 in ours but our unit is too small for carbs so I don't know how well it works with petrol gum.

 

[Marjorie Proops]

The electronics guys got one of these fitted onboard a nuclear sub in 1974 eek) - it was the latest all singing all dancing thing back then - then they found out that we clanky's had been using it to clean the black tar off the lub oil separator (centrifuge) plates every night for the last couple of months - a tiny hissy-fit as I recall

 

[Redboots]

ULTRASONIC-CLEANING-DETERGENT-FLUID-CARBURETTORS and from other sources...

John

 

[MattW]

I use non POR15 Marine Clean in my cleaner (because I happen to have a gert big bottle of it) - works a treat.

http://www.frost.co.uk/item_Detail....uctName=Marine Clean (3.78 litres, US Gallon)