What Solution for Ultrasonic Cleaner

[Tim Marlow]

always used warm water and a decent brand of washing up liquid, works for me

That’s all we ever needed at work as well :thumb2:

[adt70hk]

Alexander

On a slight tangent, I've often wondered about getting one but like a lot of things they vary greatly in price.... Is there much difference in quality.

ATB.

Andrew

[Jim R]

Hi Andrew
I reckon that for occasional use to clean the airbrush you only need one like THIS. It's big enough to fit the parts of an AB and has a plastic basket. I have had a very similar one for about 5 years and it has been fine.
Jim

[stillp]

I bought a 2 litre one - big enough for a 1:1 carburettor! Cost me £25 (new) on ebay. The downside is that, fairly obviously, it takes 2 litres to fill it, which puts me off using any solvent other than water. It has a wire basket.
Pete

[slupanter]

I have made a new “basket” out of a Wilko sieve

Does it matter if the base is touching the bottom of the cleaner?

[Guest]

Mine is very much like Jim's, sure the basket doesn't touch the base .Tim has experience with these and may well say the parts should be suspended for cleaning .

[slupanter]

Does the lid need to be shut too?
This could be a silly question

[Guest]

Does the lid need to be shut too?
This could be a silly question

Not a silly question Alexander. I used to put my lid down, but the hinges broke so now leave it off , still works fine.

[Tim Marlow]

I would keep the items off the bottom if you can, if only because the item being cleaned needs to be hit from all sides. Any part touching won’t be cleaned. You could also get abrasion from the high frequency vibration of the item against the container wall. I would run in short bursts, rearranging the kit a couple of times to ensure full coverage. As to the lid, I’d shut it if possible, but we used to run ours open most of the time. Mind you, we were usually sonicating liquids to disrupt cells in suspension, so used a completely different arrangement. When we were cleaning kit the arrangement was quite like this.

[adt70hk]

Hi Andrew
I reckon that for occasional use to clean the airbrush you only need one like THIS. It's big enough to fit the parts of an AB and has a plastic basket. I have had a very similar one for about 5 years and it has been fine.
Jim

Jim

Forgot to say thanks for the tip...... Something else to add to the list.

ATB.

Andrew