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powertech84
Silver Level Joined: 17 Oct 2009 Location: Wisconsin Points: 460 |
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Posted: 4 hours 21 minutes ago at 12:59pm |
Does anyone experimented with any type of home made carb soak?
I recently went to an auction and bought several boxes of old carbs, probably at least 30 of them in fact. My plan was to work on them in my free time this winter and then sell them next year. I've generally started each carb with a soak in one of those commercially available gallon of carb cleaner, then disassemble, then clean in an ultrasonic and blast cabinet where necessary, but with this many carbs to do I was hoping to find a cheaper alternative to the $40 gallons, for at least the initial clean up.
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DaveKamp
Orange Level Access Joined: 12 Apr 2010 Location: LeClaire, Ia Points: 5722 |
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The carb soak stuff you find in one-gallon cans is a cocktail of some rather nasty components... hence the price, and effectiveness. Most if it makes excellent work of cast iron carb parts, and has no problem clearing shellac from brass, stainless, etc., but it can be pretty harsh on Zamak. Most antique tractor carbs (Marvel-Schebler, Zenith, etc) will be iron bodies with brass orfices. Newer stuff will be Zamak, or some flavor of aluminish die-casting stock. I've been doing most of my carbs with the dip-can, followed by ultrasonic and bead-blaster. I usually blast the exterior of mine BEFORE disassembly, THEN rinse it in degreaser, so the the exterior crud doesn't take away all the effectiveness of my dip-can. It DOES mean that my blast cabinet gets cruddy, but it's gotta go Somewhere, right? One trick I DO use... is distilled water and plastic baggies. I'll fill the ultrasonic tank about 3/4 the way with distilled water, then put my carb parts in a plastic baggie, then pour some vinegar into the bag, zip it shut, and lower it into the ultrasonic. That keeps the US tank clean, but the heat and ultrasonic energy passes through to the parts... with the heat, and the vinegar's acetic acid, parts clean up pretty well.
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Ten Amendments, Ten Commandments, and one Golden Rule solve most every problem. Citrus hand-cleaner with Pumice does the rest.
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steve(ill)
Orange Level Access Joined: 11 Sep 2009 Location: illinois Points: 80157 |
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try boiling one in a pan of water with dish soap....as the first step.
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Like them all, but love the "B"s.
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