Any of you guys use an ultrasonic cleaner?

[MILLRUNNER]

Moderators, I know this isn't the right place to post this particular topic, but I am really in need of some advice and I can't find anywhere else to look. If this is isn't the right place for this question please excuse me.

 

The company I work for recently bought a new ultrasonic cleaner. its a small Crest unit. It has the heat option on it. We are searching for things to add to the tap water to use as a cleaner. I have tried several different things with very undesireable results.

 

We will be using this cleaner to clean wire machine head parts and various other small parts. Most of them are stainless and we do have some carbide and brass parts as well. We use an acid solution diluted in water to clean them most of the time, but we thought we would try this ultrasonic cleaner. I added some of the acid in with the parts in the cleaner, and it will turn them black, especially with heat.

 

I haven't put any valuable parts in yet, just old scrap pieces.

 

If any of you all use these types of cleaners, what do you add to your water to make them clean well?

 

Thanks

[Thad]

I don't use ultrasonic cleaners, but found this with a Google search. Scroll about half way down.

 

link

 

Thad

[Jerosu]

Search McMaster Carr for Ultrasonic Cleaning Solutions. They have brief descriptions of what each one is for (metal, etc.)

 

If it were me, I'd call the manufacturer of the unit and tell them what you are cleaning and what you want out of the process. I'm sure they will be more than happy to help you.

[BernieT]

Got a jewelery store nearby?? They use ultrasonic for rings and gems and earrings. Our jeweler gave my wife a small ultrasonic unit with solution so she could clean her own jewelery. It works but not as well as the professional model. The solution appears to me to be a non-foaming detergent.

[Lars Christensen]

I did some testing with the verius types of ultrasonic cleaners some years back, and I found that adding a little toilet bowl cleaner with the water works just as fine, thats what we use for ours

[nofalloff]

When I got mine I called Branson (http://www.bransonultrasonics.com/)

and spoke to one of their engineers. They sell an number of ultrasonic cleaning solutions and he recommended 2 that have work well for my application.

[Mike@Dive Lab Inc.]

We use CLR available in any grocery store. CLR will etch into the brass. we also use superclean or simple green

[chris m]

We use ultrasonic machines and use deionized water with a solution from Castrol; don't know what the name of it is, though. I'll look into it for you

[Michael Sullivan]

At my old shop we had one. we used to use Simple Green as a solution. worked well and did not tarnish anything. The nice thing is you can buy it anywhere.

 

Doh! Mike beat me to it.

[Joe A]

We clean titanium & stainless parts in our ultrasonic. We use a solution called Mighty Max

[PERRY C]

We ues just regular jewelery cleaner I think it has an amonioa base but you can get it at wal-mart and it works fine for cleaning our wire machines.And I use it almost straight for really dirty guides.

[Racer X]

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When I got mine I called Branson (

http://www.bransonultrasonics.com/

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+1000

 

Did the same thing here after trying several other avenues first. They should be able to help you out.

 

Cheers