Ultrasonic Cleaners - Recommendations

[Bill P]

Hello Fellow (male and female) FPN'ers

 

1. I am looking for recomendations for an Ultrasonic cleaner that I would use for Fountain Pens and Jewelery...

 

2. where can I purchase (with good value) the Ultrasonic cleaner that you recommend

 

3. What solution do you recommend ? or do you recommend the tried and true solutions that are used in a container for cleaning..such as water, dilution of ammonia and water, a commercially available solution for cleaning pens..

 

I thanbk -you all in advance for your suggestions and comments.

 

Bill

 

 

[risingsun]

I recently recommended one like mine to a fellow member:

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ultrasonic-Jewelry-and-Eyeglass-Keys-Ring-Coins-Denture-Cleaner-Cleaning-Machine-/191069920711?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2c7ca79dc7

 

I use water and a bit of dish soap typically, but will ramp up to a 10% ammonia solution when a need arises...

[ac12]

I think there is a thread in the repair section.

Might take a look there.

 

I start with plain water, which does 99% of my cleaning.

Then I go to a 10% ammonia/water solution for the harder to clean stuff.

 

A USC will primarily clean the hardened/dried ink.

It does not clean out liquid ink. For that you flush and soak the pen.

 

CAUTION, there are jewelry that should never go into a USC. And you have to be careful what pens and how you clean them in the USC. A USC is a tool with limitations.

Edited September 23, 2014 by ac12

[KBeezie]

I just purchased one of these (but from a different seller, this one is the same price)

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ivation-IVUC96S-Digital-Ultrasonic-Jewelry-Cleaner-W-Adjustable-Power-/130962387550

 

Mainly because I wanted one that let me set low, mid, high power settings.

 

But with pens you usually want to disassemble it as much as possible. ie: If it's just the feed that has hardened ink, you'll want to try to put just the feed in for a cleaning or least the least amount of parts it seems.

 

I don't know that much about cleaning pens, but I know with jewelry and such it helps to have the option to set the power level, like you don't normally want to stick in a silver ring with an opal (fragile stone) at normal settings or with a number of other pieces, rather you'd want to go with a lighter setting. I imagine the same could apply to pens especially with platings, glues, or jewels.

 

I think there is a thread in the repair section.

Might take a look there.

 

I start with plain water, which does 99% of my cleaning.

Then I go to a 10% ammonia/water solution for the harder to clean stuff.

 

A USC will primarily clean the hardened/dried ink.

It does not clean out liquid ink. For that you flush and soak the pen.

 

CAUTION, there are jewelry that should never go into a USC. And you have to be careful what pens and how you clean them in the USC. A USC is a tool with limitations.

I don't even have a USC yet and I'm thinking along the same line, giving a pre-soak water, then diluted ammonia if it's really stubborn and if needing to go beyond that maybe try the USC with straight water. Point is I'm going to do a bit of reading up before going trigger happy with it myself.

Edited September 24, 2014 by KBeezie