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Feb 15, 2010 12:11:15 GMT
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Hey Guys,
Wonder if anyone can help, I am rebuilding a set of carbs at the moment, but the cases are pretty filthy and they could do with a good deep clean.
I was thinking about getting the cases cleaned ultrasonically just wondering if anyone knows of a place in Bristol that offers this service?
I presume there isnt any issue with cleaning carbs in this way?
Cheers
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Feb 15, 2010 12:30:13 GMT
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1967 Morris Traveller 1971 Series IIA Land Rover 1991 Golf GL 4+e 1992 Corrado G60 1986 E28 BMW 528i
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Feb 15, 2010 12:36:47 GMT
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Yeah was muttering about this to Bruce a moment ago, he said he gave it a pop but didn’t get very far?
Would be a good opportunity to break in the A52 blast cabinet.
I presume it’s a case of blast away and then soak them in petrol to clear out the circuits? Just concerned about clogging the circuits up.
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Last Edit: Feb 15, 2010 12:38:12 GMT by eightsix
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Feb 15, 2010 13:12:53 GMT
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you need to be careful blasting carbs for two reasons the media can block the drillings and airways and if you use too agresive a media can damage threads etc (years ago heard of a set of dellortos ruined in a bead blaster) since soda has a history of being ok for carbs that would seem to be the path to follow if you want to use blasting as for ultrasonic, a couple of suggestions every now and then aldi do a special on them or try a jewelers or watch mender as they often have them, but if they would let them be used for cleaning grubby car parts and if they did, how much they would charge another option could be a bath in a mild caustic solution but be aware this will eat ally if to strong or left too long don't know if it would work on ally but cola has been used as a cleaning media before another i have heard of (but no personal experience) is boiling up ally parts in a saucepan with a mix of washing soda ttfn glenn
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Feb 15, 2010 13:26:21 GMT
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Dishwasher? Just an idea...
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Feb 15, 2010 14:49:06 GMT
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Last time I used the dishwasher to clean car parts the wife threatened to stab me if I did it again. To be fair the kitchen stank of gunk, the dishwasher stank of gunk and all the dishes stank of gunk. On the plus side the dishwasher was insanely clean and my rocker covers came out beautifully! So that option is out of the window, as I don’t fancy getting stabbed! Soda seems the best option for blasting so should be worth a pop without risk of clogging the carbs. Was thinking about buying one or 2 of those cheap jewellery cleaners of eBay and then removing the guts and fitting it to a bigger tank – Maybe a stainless steel baking tray or something from IKEA. Just don’t know how well those cheap things work.
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Feb 15, 2010 15:02:30 GMT
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tofufi
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Feb 15, 2010 15:04:12 GMT
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Last time I used the dishwasher to clean car parts the wife threatened to stab me if I did it again. To be fair the kitchen stank of gunk, the dishwasher stank of gunk and all the dishes stank of gunk. On the plus side the dishwasher was insanely clean and my rocker covers came out beautifully! So that option is out of the window, as I don’t fancy getting stabbed! Not worth getting yourself stabbed for Having had a look into buying one on eBay/Amazon etc, it seems that it would need to be about £70 worth to get one that would fit a large Dellorto or similar. Then there is the question of whether it just needs water to work, or whether a cleaning fluid ought to be used. That might be worthwhile as it could also be used to clean up other parts... distributors etc... which would be nice. I'd imagine it to be quite useful if it worked well, especially as I'm lazy and hate cleaning parts. I'm not sure if the Aldi special ones would fit a large carburettor in, either. Might be a little small?
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Feb 15, 2010 15:09:26 GMT
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Feb 15, 2010 15:15:58 GMT
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So that option is out of the window, as I don’t fancy getting stabbed! Ha ha ha ;D
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Feb 15, 2010 15:20:28 GMT
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My ultrasonic is probably not big enough. What size are the bits that need doing?
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Feb 15, 2010 16:05:09 GMT
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Basically the Dellorto carb bodies above Seth
I might be over simplifying, and there maybe science stuff that I am missing; but wondering why I cant get a £5 jewellery cleaner off eBay, break it apart for the components, then get deep pan from IKEA, stick the transducer to the bottom of it and fire the sucker up.
I maybe wrong but it seems the only real difference between these things is the size of the tank? Maybe if 1 doesn’t have the clout then doubling up will give it some more oompf? Still maybe £15 spent tops and big enough to be useful for medium sized car parts?
From what I gather the transducer is the ultrasonic part and the hardest thing to come by the rest of the electrickery bits just get it to resonate at a certain frequency.
As I say I maybe missing something, I am no scientist.
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Seth
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Feb 15, 2010 16:16:24 GMT
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Basically the Dellorto carb bodies above Seth Too big for me I'm afraid Me neither. But if you can afford to maybe loose £15 I look forward to the results What you need is to get the fluid vibrating so it creates small bubbles against the parts. It may be that proper fluid is better constructed to aerate in this way.
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Feb 15, 2010 16:17:40 GMT
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Seth
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Feb 15, 2010 16:49:45 GMT
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Seth, have you found your one useful/effective? Worth buying? I don't do car parts in it as a rule It is great for my work though, where getting old lubricant and ingrained dirt out of every tiny orifice is necessary. Mine was quite expensive so I've no idea how it compares to the cheaper ones. I can't think of many car parts where this kind of process would be necessary. Carbs are about it really. So I'd probably stick to a toothbrush, wd40, and a wooden poking stick (eg toothpicks) unless I was doing lots of them.
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Follow your dreams or you might as well be a vegetable.
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Feb 15, 2010 16:52:13 GMT
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get a free diswasher installed in your shed or garden .. job done come to think of it, reckon i will take my own advice
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if you have helped me with advice or parts thank you so much ... should anyone require some dining chair covers gimme a shout. I make and manufacture them .
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Feb 15, 2010 17:02:36 GMT
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Jim,
Blame me for this stupid ultrasonic idea! When I spoke to James I told him of my concern of using the sand blasting cabinet with soda crystals - mainly because it has been used for sand blasting in the past (the prev. owner used kiln dried sand in there) and even with a thorough clean, I doubt we'd be able to get all the grit out. Even a few bits of grit in the carbs would be a bad idea because it won't dissolve like the soda crystals, so getting the grit out will be a potential problem....which I don't want!
The ultrasonic cleaning method would be a really effective way of cleaning. I was at a place with Grunty a while back and this guy was telling me us how he'd cleaned a crank to what he thought was spotless condition. He then stuck it in an ultrasonic tank.....left it in there for a while and the amount of girt/dirt that came off this supposedly spotless crank was incredible! And this was a guy that built and raced a lot of top end classic bikes (just ask Grunty!)
This led me to the idea of getting your carb bodies cleaned ultrasonically.
How's this for an idea....I'm willing to put some money towards buying one, I'm sure James is too....and it looks like you are. How about we pool some money into buying a reasonably good one for all of us to use...then even clean stuff for other people which could help pay the costs back?? Food for thought??
I'll call you in a bit anyway. ;D
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