Ultrasonic Cleaner: What size and solution?

[masterchiefmurph]

I’m rebuilding my autocockers and there’s more gunk then I have time to clean off some of the smaller parts. The biggest part I would clean is a full body so I need to know the smallest size I can get away with where they could fit in an ultrasonic cleaner. (disassembled)

Following that up, what solution and size do you use?


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[Frmrspec]

Careful.. ultrasonic cleaners don’t play well with anodizing even when using a detergent that is safe for aluminum. But if you break down the marker even a small one intended for jewelry will work just fine..


if it’s really nasty what I usually do is air up the marker and hose it off with hot water.. at absolute most you could grab an old tooth brush to break up the nasty stuff.

[BrickHaus]

I'm not sure I believe it, but my buddy said you should be wary of putting aluminum in the ultrasonic cleaner. It can apparently pit it.

I have the smallest US cleaner you can get, so I really cant attempt to put a full body in mine to verify, but I just toss steel parts like hammers and sears in mine.

For solution, I always have good luck with diluted simple green.

[Frmrspec]

I destroyed my gravel bike cassette by putting it in my ultrasonic cleaner too long.. also on Facebook a guy messed up the ano on his toxic matrix from putting it in an ultrasonic cleaner.

[jetenginekyle]

If you use simple green dont let it soak for extended periods of time, its slow but will affect the ano too.

[Trbo323]

This is the first I've heard of possibly damaging aluminum. I don't own one just I've always heard they work fine

Sent from my motorola edge 5G UW (2021) using Tapatalk

[XEMON]

Same here ... I've seen another shop use them to clean pre and post ano ...