Ultrasonic cleaning

[stiffsimon]

Ultrasonic cleaning, Hmmm.For me UC is light years ahead of solvents, degreasers, hard/soft particle blasting and so on and so forth. Quick, efficient, effective, environmentally friendly and can clean anything from coked up pistons, crankshafts, wiring looms and all sorts:

"I had a really stinky but unmolested loom off a GSX 11 that had sttod in a coal merchants shed for 26 years. Two cable ties, half an hour in an ultrasonic bath and i could not believe the result. It came up like new with shiney connectors. What impressed me the most was before it was hard and brittle and it came out soft and flexible. The loom that is...... "

Thing is I can't find anywhere here in Melbourne that offers such a service. I've tried performance engine builders, chop shops and Google but the closest I can find are jewellers that will clean jewllery "don't think they'd thank me if I turned up with a set of manky flatslides!".
Looking at about $600 for a machine that you'd be hard pressed to fit a TV remote control in and in excess of $3K for a machine a bit bigger than a shoe box puts them out of my budget.
Does anybody know if there're are companies in Melbourne that do automotive ultrasonic cleaning?

I'd really, really like to be able to access this service. Had my carbs ultrasonic cleaned back in the UK and was amazed at the result.

Check out the Youtube link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CxQzfrjQ3Y&feature=related

[ALBI]

for the fliud just get in contact with repco!! they sell ASNU ultrasonic fuel injector cleaner and flow callibration machine's,you will be able to buy the ulrasonic cleaning fluid and ask for the ASNU contact no's and they will point you in right direction.
hopefully!!

[Redmohawk]

make your own bath and start a business in melb , good audio amp and transducers from a horn loaded driver arnt hard to pick up and a audio wave form generator that will go up to about 26 khz is all you need.

[Dynomutt]

Most of the ultrasonic cleaners I have used are around the 50Hz range. Look on ebay there are some reasonable sized units that heat the fluid and will fit a set of carbs in for around £800. Smaller units that will fit a pair of carbs are rather less. A mate bought a unit a few years ago that will fit a cylinderhead in which cost him around £1200 from a company called Shadowfax who specialise in bike workshop equipment.

[Chase]

You're probably looking for something like this;

http://www.proscitech.com.au/cataloguex/online.asp?page=e14

or cheaper versions..

http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/302691636/30L_Digital_Heating_Ultrasonic_Mechanical_Parts.ht ml

[stiffsimon]

Thanks for the info.

Will be popping into Repco later Albi and see what they have to say.
RMH my thoughts precisely. I really can't seem to find anywhere that offers an ultrasonic cleaning service. As I said earlier it seems so much better than "traditional" cleaning methods.
If I do end up investing in a US cleaner then I'll be more than happy to experiment with, er, I mean offer this service to ASF members.

[Johnnie5]

have you tried a search for carbie cleaning companies ?

[Redmohawk]

50 hz is low frequency 50 khz is very very high human hearing for most people stops at about 18 to 19 khz 26 is just fine for 99% of stuff and can be done with hight end high power car stereo stuff. A good high end amp should go to at least 30khz with a slight drop in power just stay away from D class amps they top out at very low frequencys (around 2 khz human speach)

For bigger stuff in say a 500 L tank you will want power levels around 2000 watts rms.