On Tue, 6 Dec 1994, Paul Swengler wrote:
> Greg Meboe wrote:
> >I keep a small armory of caustic and acidic chemicals around for
> >LBC cleanings.
>
> This is neither a flame nor a joke. Hey Greg, that's nasty stuff!
Good thing you wrote this Paul, I imagine I would have taken it as a joke.
>
> What do you keep it in? Do You soak it over night?
>
> I'd like to know how you do this. Perhaps with a tank I can bypass a couple
> steps.
>
> Paul Swengler Providing Hawaii's Legal Community
I don't want to take up too much bandwidth, but I figure I'll tell how I
clean parts. The carburetor cleaner is only mildly acidic, and it's
shipped in a steel 5-gallon container. I've never had a problem with the
containers, so I just leave it in them. The small parts fit into the
5-gallon, and the large parts fit into the 55-gallon drum.
Of course, the Sulfuric (battery) acid is a different story. I
have it stored in a plastic (High Density Polyethylene) container that I
swiped from my Mom's kitchen. Plastics are much more acid resistant
than metals. It's about 1 gallon and has perhaps a 1/8" wall thickness.
All of my nasty stuff has lids so the fumes don't become overpowering.
The recommended soak time for the carburettor cleaner is 5-30
minutes, the longer time being for if you don't want to scrub. It is
pretty much a given that when I take something apart, all of the metal
parts, (fasteners especially), take a dive in the tank while I take a
grub break. That way, things go together clean, and fasteners thread
right the first time. BTW, I just wash the parts that come out of the
carb dip tank in a high pressure stream of hot water. Since they become
hot themselves, they tend to dry quickly and are ready for painting or
immediate assembly.
Soaking the fasteners and small parts in the carb dip tank began
as a substitute for a real pump-powered solvent tank, but after a few
years with this method, I like it better. The parts come out clean
enough for painting, there's no motor, and there's virtually no
scrubbing. It's easy and clean.
This has worked quite well for me. If you get some use out of
it, that's all for the better.
Greg
Greg Meboe meboe@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu
Dept. of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
Washington State University, Pullman, Wa.
'85 XJ-12 H.E. (daily) '67 Spit-6 '74 TR-6
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