Ultrasonic Cleaning Fired Brass

[Alpha1]

I need to buy a ultrasonic bath for work if it just happens to be good for cleaning cases well that would be a bonus.
Can any one recommend a good one price is not to important.

[DW58]

My new routinge is neck-size/de-cap, then clean in ultrasonic cleaner (hot water/washingup liquid) and then dry cases in my food dehydrator (normally used for making beef/venison jerky.

I currently use a small/cheap Untrasonic cleaner bought in Lidl for £19.99, but I plan in upgrading to a 2-3ltr heated maching soon to clean 100-200 .308 cases at a time rather than the current 25-30.

[TattooedGun]

I've just recently moved to cleaning before sizing. Makes a little more sense to me since it will keep my dies from getting dirty.

It did mean however I needed to get a new de priming tool. Does now mean I can de prime from somewhere other than the bench... :)

[bradaz11]

i use birchwood casey brass cleaner. works pretty well, quite cheap to use as well, I use 10ml per 500ml of water. here is what i do

I also use plastic measuring jugs from dunelm (about £1 each) and a sieve (simple cheapy plastic one)

-Solution and water in a jug, water in another jug, both in the ultrasonic bath, with water around them to the max line.
-add brass to cleaner jug.
-run cleaner a few times
-take both jugs out and to the bathroom/kitchen
-pour cleaning solution and brass through the sieve into another empty jug
-rinse brass held in sieve under the tap and tip into the jug with plain water that was in the bath
-put new jug with cleaning solution and water jug with brass back in the cleaner
-refill the cleaning solution jug with brass
-run cleaner.

repeat until the cleaning solution gets too crappy.

[Alpha1]

I'm not sure that's going to work for me I want to put a £3500 instrument in it.

[bradaz11]

a violin wouldnt do well in an ultrasonic bath...

if you aren't cleaning brass, then probably not, and as this thread is about that and not cleaning cheap 'instruments'

[TattooedGun]

£3500 instrument that might fit into an ultrasonic cleaner... I'm intrigued...?

A reaaalllly expensive kazoo?

Trumpet?

Trombone?

Saxaphone...?

I guess since we're talking brass, I'm thinking along the line of the brass section...

[bradaz11]

is it a harmonica??

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/folk-tra ... -harmonica

[TattooedGun]

Nice find... I thought harmonica and then thought £3500 would be silly... it appears I am mistaken....

[Alpha1]

Its a electronic flow controller a electronic instrument the main body is stainless steel its the sort of thing you would feed a drug into a patients arm in very small amounts like .5 grams a hour. They block up we have like 50 of these in use at any one time at £3500 each. When they block up a alarm sounds and we swop to a stand by one. We keep at least ten on a shelf as stand by units. We then take the blocked one out and send it back to the manufacturer they un block it for £350 by according to the report siting it in a ultrasonic bath for 12 hours. If they can not unblock it the unit goes in the scrap bin and we replace it for £3500. So as you can imagine I'm pretty keen to acquire a decent ultra sonic bath that will do the job if it costs £3500 pounds or less and does the job I'm on a winner.

For the initiated its a Bronkhorst flow meter with the integrated control valve. Research is a expensive working environment. Its nearly as expensive as shooting.

So recommend me a good ultra sonic bath.