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cleaning bike carbs at home
02GF74 - 2/6/13 at 03:03 PM

got a set of 4 mikuni bike carbs that I am tryingto get clean. so far used paraffin and a toothbrush follwed be a brass brush and dremel stainless steel brushes to remove what the former failed.

still not totally happy (will be getting a thin open dremel brush to get into the small crevices) but wondering if there is a better easier way to clean themn at home.

I have compresor and blasting gun so maybe soda blasting? (after sealing up the carbs - where would one buy soda?)

(I don't have dish washer so cosest would be to put carbs in bucket of hot water and dishwasher tablet - worth doing?)

trikerneil - 2/6/13 at 03:17 PM

I bought a small ultrasonic bath and have used that with some success.

I have seen carbs cleaned with soda blasting LINKY

I think the soda is water soluble so a blast followd by ultrasonic should be pretty good.

HTH

Neil

robinj66 - 2/6/13 at 07:30 PM

You can get soda crystals at any of the major supermarkets Eg, here

02GF74 - 2/6/13 at 08:41 PM

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Originally posted by robinj66
You can get soda crystals at any of the major supermarkets Eg, here


hmmm ... I'm pretty sure that baking soda (sodium bicarbonate), a very fine powder, is used, not washing soda (sodium carbonate), which tends to exist a small grained crystlas that want to clump together and is used for degreasing.

robinj66 - 2/6/13 at 09:41 PM

You might well be right - the link and the video demo both say [bicarb of soda] . However the "soda crystals" from Tesco are in fact a fine powder and not granules but I do wonder what effect they would have on aluminium (certainly shouldn't have prolonged contact in solution but may not have any detrimental effect as a powder ?)

Be interested to know people's thoughts