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[duncancallum]

Anyone got one?

I'm looking at https://www.allendale-ultrasonics.co.uk/media/cata...

Ive 100s of nuts bolts and ste to clean.

[Doofus]

You can't polish a turd.

[Squadrone Rosso]

I have a very similar one for my cycle bits (chain & cassette).

Run it on the heat setting for 30 mins with water soluble degreaser. Works amazingly well.

[PaulKemp]

Just bought a cheap ish 15L off Amazon, ran it with just water, cleaned of most of the surface rust but not great, I’m looking at getting some distilled/de-ionised water in bulk and a filter to recover most of it but unsure of cleaning fluids!

I need to de-rust some small parts (some will be alloy) and degrease others what are people using to mix with the water?

[Legacywr]

You’re not going to shift rust in an ultrasonic tank unless you fill it with WD40 or similar.

[GreenV8S]

Legacywr said:

You’re not going to shift rust in an ultrasonic tank unless you fill it with WD40 or similar.

Ordinary WD40 also won't shift rust - you'd want a tub of evaporust or similar to do that. A cleaner/degreaser session first would improve the working life of the evaporust.

[duncancallum]

Some are mildy corroded a lot are just minging.

I'm wanting to clean them up and then bag them and then i know what I've got

[droopsnoot]

If they're rusty, soak them in citric acid and it will clean the rust off. I'm not sure if it alters the strength of the bolt, I haven't had any problems with stuff I've done that way with some suspension and similar bolts. That was in a glass jug, by the way, I don't have an ultrasonic cleaner. Citric acid powder is really cheap on eBay (or it was, last time I bought it) and I mix it to 10% strength in plain water.

[duncancallum]

Bought a 15ltr one...

Ive some carbs to do....