Ultrasonic cleaners

[Polarbear]

What's the best concoction to use in a ultrasonic cleaner when you have run out of the proper fluid. I've tried water with washing up liquid and it's no where near as good.

Has anyone got any tips using stuff from around the house as my cleaning fluid doesn't look like coming for a week or so.

I have 2 cleaners, 1 big and 1 small so I can get away with smaller amounts for now, probably half a litre.
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[MarJay]

I found a safety data sheet for carb cleaning ultrasonic solution.

https://cdn.bcf.44bytes.net/files/ultrasonic_cleaning_solution.jpg

It seems to be 10% volatile organic chemicals and I don't think there is much if any detergent in there. I'd say paraffin would be closer than water and washing up liquid? I'm not sure whether that's safe to use in an ultrasonic cleaner though?
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[Polarbear]

Jesus, that looks nasty. Perhaps I'd better be a bit more careful with the real stuff when it arrives.
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[MarJay]

[TravisBickle]

Stab in the dark - carb cleaner if you can get it a liquid (non aerosol) form???
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[MarJay]

[MarJay]

[TravisBickle]

Women! About as useful as the clip-on motorcycle handlebar ashtray designs I have on patent
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[Polarbear]

Cheers Marjay.

We have glass cleaner so I'll try that. If it works I'll get a few bottles from Asda tomorrow to tide me over.


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[MarJay]

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I use white vinegar and a detergent in mine for carbs.

They tend to need 15 minutes or so, but they come out clean.
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[Hong Kong Phooey]

You can put whatever your choice of cleaning fluid in a bag with the parts, then immerse the sealed bag in the ultrasonic bath, which you just fill with tap water.

The cleaning works as the ultrasonic pulses travel through the bag.
The dirty fluid gets thrown away, you'll have used less of it and the ultrasonic cleaner is pristine.
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[kolu]

[Riejufixing]

[Suntan Sid]

I don't have an ultrasonic cleaner, can't justify the cost.
However a while back I needed to clean the teeth of a tablesaw blade, they get covered in a "varnish" which, presumably, is the glue in plywood and other manmade boards melting and then coating the teeth.
It's a bugger to get off even with abrasives.
I got a washing up bowl, filled it with enough hot water to cover the blade and chucked in a dishwasher tablet.
Five minutes later the saw blade was like new.
Since then I've tried it on a couple of brass items, I found in the garden, obviously been there for decades, scrubbing with a plastic scourer didn't touch them, hot water and a dishwasher tab worked straightaway.
May be worth a shot in an ultrasonic cleaner!
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[MarJay]

It's a thread about ultrasonic cleaners and - has to be a d*ck about it.
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[MarJay]

You had to have a dig with a political slant though, in a totally non political thread? That is a dick move however you cut it.

Just go, just leave. Just don't ever log on here... It's boring and it can't be doing you any good.
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Remember kids, bikes aren't like lego. You can't easily take a part from one bike and then fit it to another.

[Polarbear]

To update - glass cleaner worked reasonably well. Not as good as the proper liquid but then you wouldn't expect that.

I'm going to try water and a dishwasher tablet just for the lols but that will be in my big cleaner, I think it will be a bit much with one tablet in the 500ml of liquid my little cleaner takes.

Any way, the proper stuff should arrive tomorrow or Monday but it's fun experimenting.
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[panrider_uk]

Would be interested in knowing how that goes.
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[hellkat]

*wanders in, wonders what ultrasonic cleaner actually is, but wanders back out again anyway, wondering if there's such a thing as a recipe for piña colada flavoured biscuits*




edit: found one
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