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| Chi-town |
 Dec 18 2018, 08:50 PM
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Senior Member  Group: Members Posts: 850 Joined: 31-August 18 From: Disneyland Member No.: 22,446 Region Association: Southern California  |
Last weekend I spent the morning with @bdstone914 , @ValcoOscar cleaning hardware with Oscar's ultrasonic cleaner and trying different chemicals.
It got me thinking that I want an ultrasonic cleaner so I started doing some research. Looks like for most automotive cleaning 40khz is the sweet spot. I ordered a DK SONIC 6L 180W 40khz Ultrasonic Parts Cleaner with Heater from Amazon. (ETA Thursday) Oscar used a solution made for ultrasonic cleaners Bruce likes Evaporust I'm partial to CLR The ultrasonic solution cleaned most of the grease and oil and minor corrosion but did not affect the zinc coating. A 50/50 mix of the ultrasonic solution and Evaporust cleaned oil and grease and moderate corrosion but took some of the zinc coating off. I played around with straight CLR today with different lengths of submersion. I found a short dip cleaned corrosion ok but not much affect on grease/oil. A long dip takes the rust and zinc plating off completely. Once my cleaner gets here I want to play with a diluted CLR and a citrus degreaser to see how it does. What are you guys using to clean hardware / brackets? Anyone using an ultrasonic cleaner? Tips / tricks? |
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| Chi-town |
Dec 19 2018, 12:20 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 850 Joined: 31-August 18 From: Disneyland Member No.: 22,446 Region Association: Southern California |
How does the zinc coating hold up in the tumbler?
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| DickSteinkamp |
Dec 19 2018, 09:03 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 500 Joined: 27-February 17 From: Bellingham, WA Member No.: 20,876 Region Association: None |
QUOTE(Chi-town @ Dec 18 2018, 10:20 PM)  How does the zinc coating hold up in the tumbler? If you run rusty parts and fairly nice zinc plated parts in the same batch and run it long enough to get the rust off, the zinc plating will be gone in areas. In all cases, zinc plated parts will not look like new ones. Zinc plating (either gold or silver color) is cheap. This pile (non Porsche) was about $100 to plate... (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/farm5.staticflickr.com-20876-1545231831.1.jpg) |
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Chi-town Adventures in hardware cleaning Dec 18 2018, 08:50 PM
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