Ultrasonic Carb Cleaning

Rich Ard

Rich Ard

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It's wintertime - and your carbs are disgusting. Look at them.

Jesus.

Good thing you know somebody with a medical-grade ultrasonic cleaner. Ship your dirty, dirty carburetors to us and we'll clean the shit out of them: $40 for the first carb, and $35 for each after that (up to a rack of four).

We will stop and contact you if it looks like you need replacement parts; more often than not, though, they're just gross. We can fix that. We have the technology.

You pay shipping both ways; we take a couple of days to clean your stuff, bench sync, and send it back; everybody's happy.

Contact me or CharlieT and we'll get you sorted.

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Barn fresh CB125 before
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And we will work with most any carb, such as this little gem from a 1937 Sachs.
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2012 penny nice touch ;) let the people know you mean business. I like that
 
It was a 1914 penny when he started. That's our promise of quality.
 
If you don't mind me asking, what set up did you go with? I have been pondering getting a decent cleaner myself. I always seem to have bits and pieces and random parts that need cleaning. I have seen the ones at Harbor Freight, but I don't want to waste my $$$ on junk. Thanks!
 
i have one of those myself. I think sonic cleaners should pretty much be a standard piece of equipment in any shop. Those things are just invaluable when cleaning out carbs. Nothing has ever worked as good as that.
 
We have a small harbor freight unit that we pretty much only do the jets, etc in unless they are realy bad. The other is a SonicWise commercial stainless steel unit with a 30min timer and heater. It's around 20" long and allows us to dip a complete bank of carbs from an inline 4 without having to totally disassemble them

We have tried numerous solutions...Purple Power, Spray-nine, Simple green and LA's totally awesome.
The thing is most of the degreassers are in a basic solution and may not be all that friendly to aluminum. If you have a set of carbs that aren't too bad and the exterior of the body is still close to an oem finish, they all work pretty good.

Problem comes in something like a 40 y/o carb that you can't even tell if the main has a hex or round head and the body has suffered some corrosion and oxidation damage. You may have to run these thru a number of cycles in the ultrasound. And no matter how well you think you rinsed and blown them dry, you can occasional get a reaction in the aluminum that results in the formation of a fine white powder forming, typically on the damaged surface areas. So what we have found is that following a thorough water rinse, a brief immersion in a dilute vinegar solution appears to neutralize any residuals of the degreasers basic solution and stops any delayed damaging effects on the aluminum.
 
durp said:
i have one of those myself. I think sonic cleaners should pretty much be a standard piece of equipment in any shop. Those things are just invaluable when cleaning out carbs. Nothing has ever worked as good as that.
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The other thing they are very good for is post-sandblasting cleaning. Sand blast a case cover, rinse it thoroughly and dry it off with the air gun. You think its pretty clean, right. Well stick it in an ultrasonic unit and when you pull it out, look at the amount of fine particular matter in the bottom of the tank. It can amaze you just how much of that crap was still in the part you had supposedly cleaned well. Crap that could have made its way into your oil or gotten buried under your paint.
 
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