Peter,
Your method certainly sounds "new age". How long would it take to clean, say a grundgy brake caliper, with the UltraSonic?
Dennis Young Hotaka, Japan
> You all that use chemicals to clean your parts need to come out of
> the stone
> age! Chemicals leave a film on the part that will break down the new
> lubricant that is so lovingly applied.
>
> What?! You say....
>
> YES! Its time for you all to step up to the age of the UltraSonic
> Cleaner.
> All you have to do is use warm water and liquid soap made for these
> systems
> and let sound do the rest. Your parts will come out looking like
> new and
> best of all..... Your body won't ingest all those nasty chemicals
> thru your
> skin!
>
> Peter Koskinen
> Ultra Sonic user since 1997 and never looking back
> Chapel Hill,NC, USA
>
> PS: I know several bike shops that use these in a commercial setting.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org
> [mailto:classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org] On Behalf Of Dennis
> Young
> Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 7:07 AM
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Cc: oroboyz@aol.com
> Subject: [CR]Cleaning parts
>
> So that's why when I ate dinner over at Dale's place I ended up
> eating my
> soup with a brake lever, just glad it wasn't drilled.
>
> For my money, the best degreaser is gasoline, though expedience may
> take
> precedent over intelligence here.
>
> Dennis Young
> Hotaka, Japan.
>
>
>
>> << ... I was wondering if anyone had any advice about cleaning off
>> grease/dirt from old components, and shining them up again.... >>
>>
>> I have to wait until my wife is not around the house for a while, but
>> putting gooey bike parts in the dish washer on the "scrub" cycle
>> works
>> amazingly well! Try it & be amazed!
>>
>>
>>
>> Dale Brown
>> Greensboro, NC USA