Cleaning.... Ultrasonic... It works...

Mine is this one:
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However I bought it second hand for $500....

For grease removal I put degreaser in it, for the stuffed print head I used Metho....
Yeah the speciaL FLUID expensive but is safe on electronics. I've heard of people rejuvenating things that have had a dunk in the briney with them...

I use a mixture of water with a dash of metho in the machine at work.

I thought that was what you usually drank, Mad Dog? :)

hahaha yes but tonight a special treat, I have to bucket out the kids bath water to the garden so I'll bottle some of it for a special occassion :)

They are brilliant forr cleaning any jewellry too.

What a good plot for a murder story. Fell into the ultrasonic thingy. Dead but very clean.

I've seen them used on electronic components, noteably ink cartridges. Magic.

And I've had a few ultrasounds on my stomach, and know they're not nice when administered by a rather large foreign looking lady that was apparently into pain...my pain !

Ahhhhhhhhhhh Footloose how old are you? Wait till you have to have your prostate annally ulrasounded by a brunhilder type. "Mine Herr you vill drop ze jocks and be layingk on yor zide & I vill be sodomisingk you viss this large proben, you vill feel no pain you vill not be schreaming out & you vill be ejaculating into ziss container vich ve vill be sendingk to pathologee"
Ahhhh in retrospect I can laugh but at the time I can assure you that if I was in Melbourne I'd have gladly thrown myself under the No. 69 tram right out side the National Scool of Ballet...
By the way when you write an Agatha Christie Novel, "Death In the Ultrasound Tank" can I come to the book launch with a Hurcule Paroit Moustache?

Fawlty: there are few people on this site who regularly make me "laugh out loud" but you're one of them - thank you :)

Mike Harding

Fawlty . how old am I ? Once upon a time some CBers gave me the callsign Golf Oscar Delta...cause thats how old they thought I was :))
Yep, met Frau Hilder. She was looking for my kidney stone, and by golly she found it. No shame when she had to move the block and tackle, unlike the young good looking one who tried first ("I REALLY don't want to be here").
Everything worked out ok, even though the surgeon hadn't played star wars on a kidney stone before. He hadn't even played puter games as a kid. How bizarre.
Now I'm not going to tell how he got to the stone. Lets just say that if I did your eyes would water.

Great for cleaning your wife's diamond rings and ear-rings etc too.

But, don't try to clean crystal ornaments in it. I stuffed up a little crystal train (made of several pieces of crystal which had been "superglued" together). The ultrasonic works well on separating things glued together!!!!! aahhhhh

Mr Fawlty

I will help you out with Footloose's age

You are a tad older than me and Footy is a tad younger than me....I think....lol........but only a tad, mind you.

Willem, an old by any other name ?
:)))))

I guess I must be old...the shop assistants call everyone else mate but they call me sir.
I can remember things that you read about in history books.
A good time is now just an excuse to have a lie down.
If I made an indecent suggestion, the lady would just laugh at me instead of slapping my face.
People laugh at my jokes not because they're funny but out of pity.
I'm still married but my body divorced me some time ago.
I'm not dead, only parts of me are.

It's no good going by my looks....I've had that problem all my life :((

Footloose, a stone Huh? Been there done that... The first excursion was enough, just used some local gel stuff in the eye of the beholder... left me walking like a Sumo wrestler for 3 weeks.... Holy snapping duck pooh, absolutley & unoquivically that hurt. For the subsequent visits I insisted on anasthesia...
Now this applies to all of you guys who are getting on a bit, if a medical professional suggests you may need Cystography, I'll repeat that CYSTOGRAPHY insist on being out for the count for it. I had one bout of that sans anasthetic, told it is uncumfortable but not painful... yeah what a load of cobblers. On return to the waiting room I mentioned to SWMBO that it was an excruciatingly painful proceedure, she said "You should have just walked out", now can you imagine what would have happened had I done that, a naked man with my "stunning physique" running naked thru the waiting rooms viss Frau De Said in hot persuit would have give half the other patients in waiting heart attacks...
Had I known that the Quack was going to use a gadget designed in the Spanish inquisition to inflict pain well enough... It's roughly 12mm dia and it does fit believe it or not and that hurts about 4 times as much as the little cherry picker they use for stuck Kidney stones...
Anyone care to attest to the veracity of my claims?

I always insist on being out for the count. One guy was even going to put a tube down into my stomach "you won't need anything, the whole procedure only takes 20mts"...20mts while I'm choking ? No thanks.
I insist on knowing what's going to happen, who's going to be in theatre and how I'm going to feel afterwards. The favourite lie seems to be "you'll feel some discomfort". Yeah, right. The body knows when its been subjected to violence, and reacts accordingly.
The weird thing is that the hospitals are only to happy to see the back of me. Apparently they are no place for people who are estatic to be alive after an op. Must upset the doom and gloom I guess.
My kidney stone op included (believe it or not) a trolley stop on the way to theatre, to argue 4wd topics with the ladies pushing. I didn't feel so bad after that :)
Was shopping recently and one young assistant was so naturally exuberant that I thought , "gee, if only I were 100 years younger"....
And when I go bush I can almost convince myself that I am :)))))))

Ok, simple, take a metal tank, underneath mount some ultrasonic transducers and turn it on. The ultrasonic "waves" created cause the fluid to vibrate at very high frequency which causes the cleaning action in conjunction with the fluid to carry the dirt away....

Stand aside Bonz...........Fotty's gunna take over the mantle of EO Poet Lauriette!!!! Very nice, mate!!! hahaha

Love it Footy
Dave

Bilbo,
I have used them for cleaning mineral specimens and they are fantastic.
Not too sure about the little bits of rock on the gold though.
If the gold is folded around the rock a bit it would be pretty difficult.
Dave

Sorry Bilbo, I only know how to fire solid fuel boilers, the traditional way with coal & a shovel...You know Muscluar men stripped naked to the waist, covered in coal dust, sweat and pheremones

Stop it, stop it!!,,,,,,,,,,,,,,I'm getting all overcome!!

Bilbo