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Originally Posted by Scooter_Trash
Very welcome. So have you used that method to clean carbs before, and if so how well does it work?
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Yeah, it's a tried-and-true practice with the folks who rebuild old motorcycles. It works well on carbs, petcocks, and pretty much any other cruddy part you can get into your cleaner. I guess there are cleaning solutions you can get but the most standard consensus I've come across is PineSol, boiling hot water, and a few drops of Dawn. My little ultrasonic cleaner was purchased for $4 at a thrift store and was made by Brookstone. As you can see in the pix, I pretty well had it maxed out capacity wise. There are bigger ones out there, mine was probably made for smaller items like jewelry. HOWEVER, you don't have to spend big $$ to get the job done! The popular and quite successful work-around I've seen is a coffee can with a cheap pad sander taped to it. I know, it sounds stupid, but it works amazingly well. Here are some pix of the cleaned parts. The pix don't do justice to how nice they look.