Bert,Looking for an ultrasonic cleaner to help with PBCL chips. The hornady is discontinued and only a couple on eBay. anyone have experience or comments about:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/281725340547?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT
Quite a bit cheaper, but if it won't get the job done, then what's the point? It has 120W of ultrasonic power.
@inca911 what kind do you have?
@bivey
That's similar to the one i have but slightly less power. It should do fine but they make the same version with a side drain valve which is nice. You should be able to find it for about $10 more.
Bret,
Post #164 has a link to the 6L version I bought on eBay with the drain valve for $150. I wouldn't want to deal with a much smaller version than that. It has done a great job for both @Mr. Cheese and me. I definitely recommend it based on cleaning results.
From what I recall someone said not to use TSP or the TSP alternative to clean BCC chips. You surely want to only test on one chip!
Has anyone done any ultrasonic work on BCC chips? I have a few that need some cleaning, and an ultrasonic on order to clean a bunch of Paulsons. Just wondering if I need to be the one to destroy some BCCs in order to figure it out.
I still have to experiment with Paulson hot stamps on the USC+TSP
I have used the USC with the fake TSP on thousands of Paulson hotstamps and none of them have been eroded. Some of them may have been very slightly faded, but they all seemed generally intact.
With real TSP...not sure.
Someone put a CPC chip in tsp and post pictures, I want to see what it does.
Has anyone cleaned Bud Jones this way? I don't care about the labels, they are coming off anyway.
Awesome to know!! Do you remember how long you left the chips in there?..
It varied by grime level. Most were 30-60 seconds. The worst offenders got a full 90 seconds.
I've been going 2 min with real TSP for the PBCLs.
I have some experience with real TSP, without USC, on hot stamps and it's sort of a crap shoot if the stamps will come off or not...
My question is... What else should I need as far as chemicals go? I'm a little confused.
It's all in post 1. Ski did extensive testing before he wrote the procedure.
But to answer your question, you need "TSP"... The fake kind... Chemically it is Sodium Metisilicate
http://www.amazon.com/Lundmark-TSP-Hard-Surface-Cleaner/dp/B001001VRA/?tag=pokchifor0d-20
Dihydrogen oxide = 2H and 1O = H2OStock up on some hydrogen dioxide.