Awesome!

MS wrote:

So, where do I get one of those ultrasonic units?

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"Awesome" (the name of a cleaner available at Dollar Tree ! BTW)
Funny story......
When I was on submarines, back in my Navy days, I was a cook. The double griddle we used was cast iron and even when it was scrubbed with greenie pads it never really looked super clean.
One day when I was cleaning the galley I took a package of concentrated  Kool-Aid (aka as bug juice! One packet made 10 gallons of bug juice.)
I mixed about a pint of water with a packet of the lime bug juice (NOBODY liked the lime so we had PLENTY). I put the super concentrate on the cool griddle and gently wiped it with a greenie.
The results were.........it looked like a sheet of shiny stainless steel ! Stupid clean.
We started using the "magic concentrate" every time we cleaned the griddle.
We ordered more of the stuff and the crew used it throughout the boat on all the stainless steel surfaces! (even the inside of the stainless steel crapper bowls)                                                                                             .1. Fill the bowl almost to the top
                                                                                                                                                   2. pour in the bug juice mix
                                                                                                                                                   3. swish and flush !
                                                                                                                                                   4. shined like chrome!!
True story.....concentrated dehydrated vinegar worked almost as well.
6sally6

6sally6 wrote:

"Awesome" (the name of a cleaner available at Dollar Tree ! BTW)
Funny story......
When I was on submarines, back in my Navy days, I was a cook. The double griddle we used was cast iron and even when it was scrubbed with greenie pads it never really looked super clean.
One day when I was cleaning the galley I took a package of concentrated  Kool-Aid (aka as bug juice! One packet made 10 gallons of bug juice.)
I mixed about a pint of water with a packet of the lime bug juice (NOBODY liked the lime so we had PLENTY). I put the super concentrate on the cool griddle and gently wiped it with a greenie.
The results were.........it looked like a sheet of shiny stainless steel ! Stupid clean.
We started using the "magic concentrate" every time we cleaned the griddle.
We ordered more of the stuff and the crew used it throughout the boat on all the stainless steel surfaces! (even the inside of the stainless steel crapper bowls)                                                                                             .1. Fill the bowl almost to the top
                                                                                                                                                   2. pour in the bug juice mix
                                                                                                                                                   3. swish and flush !
                                                                                                                                                   4. shined like chrome!!
True story.....concentrated dehydrated vinegar worked almost as well.
6sally6

 
Why did you wait all these years to share this tip?

Daze wrote:

RPM, aka Bearing Bob wrote:

6sally6 wrote:

"Awesome" (the name of a cleaner available at Dollar Tree ! BTW)
Funny story......
When I was on submarines, back in my Navy days, I was a cook. The double griddle we used was cast iron and even when it was scrubbed with greenie pads it never really looked super clean.
One day when I was cleaning the galley I took a package of concentrated  Kool-Aid (aka as bug juice! One packet made 10 gallons of bug juice.)
I mixed about a pint of water with a packet of the lime bug juice (NOBODY liked the lime so we had PLENTY). I put the super concentrate on the cool griddle and gently wiped it with a greenie.
The results were.........it looked like a sheet of shiny stainless steel ! Stupid clean.
We started using the "magic concentrate" every time we cleaned the griddle.
We ordered more of the stuff and the crew used it throughout the boat on all the stainless steel surfaces! (even the inside of the stainless steel crapper bowls)                                                                                             .1. Fill the bowl almost to the top
                                                                                                                                                   2. pour in the bug juice mix
                                                                                                                                                   3. swish and flush !
                                                                                                                                                   4. shined like chrome!!
True story.....concentrated dehydrated vinegar worked almost as well.
6sally6

 
Why did you wait all these years to share this tip?

This is at least the second time I’ve heard him tell that story.

 
Bug Juice was used on our firefighting equipment to make them sparkle…okay…a little exaggeration.
I’m sure the Navy uses environmentally friendly Bug Juice now.

My wife has a nice one for cleaning jewelry, but a carb body won’t fit😟

MS wrote:

What size is yours, Daze?  The 15L version would cost as much as a new carb to fill it with Pine-Sol!

15l. On sale fore $170 if you have Amazon prime and then there is a 5% coupon code knocking another 8 bucks off. I paid 139 when I got mine but that was between Thanksgiving and Christmas.  Not cheap but for me the time savings it paid for itself with these two throttle bodies.   Besides “money you enjoy wasting… “

MS wrote:

I guess if you are going to buy one, get the biggest possible size. And if two liters is enough to submerge the part, that is enough?
And could throw some rocks in there to take up liquid volume if the part to be cleaned is small

Or some random wrenches, hammers, sockets.  To get a free cleanup on those

That was exactly my thought. Glen and I were talking about this exact thing and he is going to use bad transmission gears. I would be worried about rocks reacting with the cleaning liquid.

Something neutral might be to take a glass jar and weigh it down with something to make it sink then seal the top..