Can you get one ultrasonic cleaner for everything or need different styles?

[mikey03]

I never used a ultrasonic cleaner but it’s honestly been on my mind. And just this week I think god wants me to buy one because my sister sleeps with a mouth guard at night for grinding and she was looking at buying one made for that and my cousin bought a bunch of handgun silencers a few months ago when they legalized them this year and the gunshop uses a ultrasonic to clean them and charges ten bucks.

Can we all chip in and get a real good one that gets used for everything or is the lead from the silencers going to stay behind and get in the mouth guard?

Honestly I realize it sounds dumb but we could get one really good one instead of multiple small cheaper ones.

 

[Twisted Sid]

Id get a good one for garage/house use and have your sister get her own for the mouth guard.
You can use hot water to fill the cleaner tub and then you use a blow/cup/bag to hold the parts being cleaned in the cleaning solution of your choice. Less waste and easier clean up.

 

[Lassen Forge]

Yeah, while I am addicted to the fine, luxurious scent of that infamous cologne, Hoppe's #9 (which, in my opinion, is superior to Chanel #5) , I'm not sure how it would taste when appended to a mouthguard...

I'd get a separate one for household stuff (the mouthguard, jewelry, etc.) and one for other things (garage stuff, firearm parts, etc.)

 

[Rinspeed]

I would suggest a used industrial 5 gal. 40 kHz with a mechanical thermostat for the heat. Branson, Crest, Blackstone and L&R are good ones to look at. I've seen them run around $500 used and new they were $3K or so. Check out Ebay although shipping would fairly high I'm sure.

 

[FJ 432]

I would suggest a used industrial 5 gal. 40 kHz with a mechanical thermostat for the heat. Branson, Crest, Blackstone and L&R are good ones to look at. I've seen them run around $500 used and new they were $3K or so. Check out Ebay although shipping would fairly high I'm sure.

For a mouth guard?

I bought a small one off of Amazon for 20-25.00 to clean my wife's jewelry. It works great.

As I understand it, they work the same. You just need a size that accomplishes your task (size of object) at hand.

 

[Rinspeed]

For a mouth guard?

I bought a small one off of Amazon for 20-25.00 to clean my wife's jewelry. It works great.

As I understand it, they work the same. You just need a size that accomplishes your task (size of object) at hand.

He also wants to clean silencers. The mouth guard can be cleaned safely in the same tank with a separate glass jar double boiler setup.

 

[Lassen Forge]

I'd still side on the side of caution - Brownells has a 1 1/2 gallon ultrasonic for something like $200 give or take. If you're just doing supressors that's not a bad deal. And it removes the chance of getting Nitro residue and lead in the retainer, and dental ugh in the works... (They also have one you can put a whole rifle action into, but that's a couple grand or so... but it's unlikely you need something that big if you're just doing cans....)

 

[JradM]

They make inexpensive ultrasonic cleaners for mouthguards specifically. Like $20.

You can totally use one for everything - but if you do, I recommend you clean things inside ziplocks or jars (or whatever) and just keep clean water in the tank. That way you're not cross-contaminating everything.

 

[mikey03]

So the liquid in the cleaner don’t have to directly contact the thing your trying to clean? You can put the thing your cleaning in a ziplock bag with more water and the ultrasonics go through the bag and clean it?

 

[mikey03]

They make inexpensive ultrasonic cleaners for mouthguards specifically. Like $20.

yea I just figured maybe a $300 one might clean it better than a $20 one and she’d never spend 300 just to clean her tooth guard but if it was split up from all of us and we shared it the money could make sense but yea Im worried about her getting lead poisoning tbh

 

[Toold_up]

Yeah buy a big one and put a smaller container inside. You could run multiple objects in the cleaner each with a different solvent in it if you wanted to.

 

[Damon L.]

I just run water in mine, and put everything to be cleaned in separate containers. The tank never gets dirty, and I use far less solvent/cleaner. I also will run jars with different chemicals simultaneously.

 

[JradM]

So the liquid in the cleaner don’t have to directly contact the thing your trying to clean? You can put the thing your cleaning in a ziplock bag with more water and the ultrasonics go through the bag and clean it?

Yes! That's a useful technique too if you want to use solvent or special cleaner, for example, to wash something, but don't want to fill your tank with it.

The movement of the ultrasonic wave will be transferred inside your bag/container.

 

[mikey03]

So other than size what’s makes them different from each other? Is there any kinda ratings or power levels or frequency or whatever?

 

[Leaflessshadetree]

Size, heat, power level, frequency. My small one seems to do a better job on jewlery and other small items than if I put those same items in my large (more powerful/expensive one).

 

[mikey03]

Size, heat, power level, frequency. My small one seems to do a better job on jewlery and other small items than if I put those same items in my large (more powerful/expensive one).

Makes sense cause the power got to split through the whole tray of water