Cleaning / Rinsing Sequence

[bengineer]

Can anyone recommend a good sequence for cleaning and rinsing of parts? I have read various books that all recommend clenaing in a cleaning solution, followed by 3 or 4 steps of rinsing in other chemicals to get the cleaning chemicals off.... I've found plenty of places to get cleaning solutions, but I haven't found many dealers who sell benzene or the other rinsing chemicals I have heard of.
Just curious what other people are doing.

[bengineer]

Can anyone recommend a good sequence for cleaning and rinsing of parts? I have read various books that all recommend clenaing in a cleaning solution, followed by 3 or 4 steps of rinsing in other chemicals to get the cleaning chemicals off.... I've found plenty of places to get cleaning solutions, but I haven't found many dealers who sell benzene or the other rinsing chemicals I have heard of.
Just curious what other people are doing.

[Steve Maddox]

Like many others, this topic has been discussed before at length. Give the "Search" feature a try, and see what you come up with. If you can't find at least one or two good detailed threads about cleaning and cleaning solutions, then post here again, and I'll see if I can look them up for you and post a link.

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Steve Maddox
VP, NAWCC Chapter #62
North Little Rock, Arkansas

[bengineer]

Ah Ha! I have now found a number of topics in the clock archive, although I am curious as to why the watch archive has only 2 threads..... Anyway, thanks for all the advice!

[Steve Maddox]

A lot of clock cleaning solutions are water based, and you definitely shouldn't consider using any of those on a watch.

As for the watch "archive," we don't archive things here the way they do in the Clocks section. The Clocks section routinely places messages into the "archives" after three months, but here, we just leave them alone. I really don't see that it makes much difference, as the same space is used either way, etc.

In any event, you'll just need to search the old topics here, not the archives. The old topics go all the way back to the beginning of this particular board.

SM

[This message has been edited by Steve Maddox (edited 10-27-2001).]

[Steve Maddox]

Don't attempt to remove ALL the jewels. Only remove the ones that have cap jewels on top of hole jewels. The others will clean and rinse fine in the solutions, but cap jewels trap stuff inside, and have to be separated in order to come clean.

SM