I am posting this for a fellow forum member "GURU1911" He has approx 50 years of firearms experience and 30 years of gunsmithing experience. This method has helped me out on more than one occasion withing the last week.
This will be a tutorial on ultrasonic parts cleaning, It will do a much more thorough job than just about anything available and it is a very cheap process.
The main ingredients to complete this process:
A source of vibration:
I used a plam sander, The GURU uses a Homedics neck massager with variable speeds, the model is PA-1
A Tub or Container:
You can use a dishpan, Paint can, 5 Gal bucket, foldgers coffee can, old Tupperware containers, (i use a sandwich container but i havnt cleaned anything big... yet) It is recommended that you have a container with a lid so the solution will not go everywhere when cleaning.
Cleaning Solution;
myself I used simple green, I am not sure on his mix but I use 1 part simple green 10 part water You can also use Mean Green and Orange blast. Again you only need to use as much solution as you need depending on the size part you are working on. You can strain and reuse the solution up to 3 times. You do not need to use too much of a strong solution, also you may want to rig up a wire to hold the part up allowing dirt to fall free.
The Process:
All you need to do is select your part that needs cleaning, drop it in your container, and pour in your cleaning solution. Turn on your soruce of vibration whether it is a sander (with out the sandpaper of course) or a neck massager or whatever you could think up. And press the vibration against your container check it every minute or two and see how its doing. This process will clean extremely well so remember to re-lubricate everything very well.
So guys thats all there is to it. This is a cost effective way to clean just about anything, I have so far cleaned my bore brushes and mops, Cleaned sand out of the pivots on my Leatherman Tool, and will be using it soon to clean my bolt the next time it is disassembled. So give this a try and let us know how it worked for you.
*again this is GURU's method I am just posting it for him.
This will be a tutorial on ultrasonic parts cleaning, It will do a much more thorough job than just about anything available and it is a very cheap process.
The main ingredients to complete this process:
A source of vibration:
I used a plam sander, The GURU uses a Homedics neck massager with variable speeds, the model is PA-1
A Tub or Container:
You can use a dishpan, Paint can, 5 Gal bucket, foldgers coffee can, old Tupperware containers, (i use a sandwich container but i havnt cleaned anything big... yet) It is recommended that you have a container with a lid so the solution will not go everywhere when cleaning.
Cleaning Solution;
myself I used simple green, I am not sure on his mix but I use 1 part simple green 10 part water You can also use Mean Green and Orange blast. Again you only need to use as much solution as you need depending on the size part you are working on. You can strain and reuse the solution up to 3 times. You do not need to use too much of a strong solution, also you may want to rig up a wire to hold the part up allowing dirt to fall free.
The Process:
All you need to do is select your part that needs cleaning, drop it in your container, and pour in your cleaning solution. Turn on your soruce of vibration whether it is a sander (with out the sandpaper of course) or a neck massager or whatever you could think up. And press the vibration against your container check it every minute or two and see how its doing. This process will clean extremely well so remember to re-lubricate everything very well.
So guys thats all there is to it. This is a cost effective way to clean just about anything, I have so far cleaned my bore brushes and mops, Cleaned sand out of the pivots on my Leatherman Tool, and will be using it soon to clean my bolt the next time it is disassembled. So give this a try and let us know how it worked for you.
*again this is GURU's method I am just posting it for him.
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friends. Yes you are correct, however, when it comes to deciding whether to spend money on expensive gun cleaning stuff or guns, I vote for guns. I hope that in the future I will have to decide if it makes good business sense to purchase an ultrasonic cleaning tank.
