Ultrasonic Cleaner Test at Chadwick Model Railway | 159.

Can an Ultrasonic Cleaner be of any use to railway modellers? Let's see how it faired at Chadwick Model Railway. | 159.

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[ChadwickModelRailway]

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[austfox]

'and if you're into unboxings... you've got the wrong channel'. This one had me on the floor with laughter. Someone has to go through all of Chadwick's videos and but together a 'best of the one liners'!

[simonamandamiddleton]

Charlie, you are a dead set legend sir! No messing around with unboxing, just straight to the nitty gritty, never apologise for who you are, because we all love you just the way you are!! Your videos are ALWAYS informative, and i have learnt so much from your channel. Thank you.

[Weldinggoggles]

Hi Charlie, I have a larger one of these for cleaning engine components and other stuff, and we also use them at work in a nuclear industrial setting. My best tips: Glass is a very good conductor of ultrasonic vibration so if you have something that is particularly filthy, a funny shape, or you want to use solvent or IPA or paint stripper etc, without the cost and mess of filling your entire machine with the stuff, use old jam jars. You can keep different parts separated in the jars and you can use a smaller amount of cleaning fluid in the jar, just put the jars in the basket and fill the surrounding space with water as normal and away you go!! Also means it's easy to keep noxious/expensive cleaning fluids safe between uses because you can fit a jam jar lid when not in use, and also it makes cleaning out the machine a much easier job!! Also handy if you have a tall item as to a certain extent you can use the jar to increase the height of your machine (within reason)

At work we use glass beakers as you'd find in a science lab.

If anyone does live steam, wether it be locos or the mamod/wilesco type steam engines, these machines are fantastic at descaling, I took the sight glass off my wilesco traction engine boiler and plonked it in the ultrasonic bath in clean water and the thing was like new inside and out in less than 15 minutes. Amazing at removing limescale!!

Hope you and your viewers find this useful!!

[davidyeates]

I love this channel. I’ve never seen any entertainment value in spending 15 minutes of what is left of my life watching somebody take something out of a box.

[philsrailway]

Hi Charlie. Love the un boxing really funny.... & the shearing.... it always helps getting partner involved.... keep up the laughs mate we all need it, some more than others, for all sorts of reasons . Stay fit & healthy all, don't sit still to long. Thanks Phil

[ChrisBagley-cn]

Hi Charlie, As usual a very good vid. Some years ago I restored a vintage Honda motor bike. The carbs were totally gummed up a few sessions in the cleaner had them looking like new. All passageways and jets cleaned out. I have to admit that I had not thought of my air brush however, so thanks for that I will give it a try with some solvent.
Regarding the Dremel wire brush, they are one step away from useless, as you found they throw the bristles out in a few moments of use. The tool has a known design fault. They will suddenly stop working, a wire feeding the field windings breaks due to being unsupported and vibrating. If that happens to yours search utube searching "my dremel wont work" There are several vids on fixing it and its a 15 minute job to do so. I nearly threw mine away but its working fine again! No soldering needed.

[philbartlett]

Thanks as always Charlie. A tool that most of us won't have thought about.

Thanks again

[colinedwards]

Love Charlies Dry humour, there are a few other Youtubers who should watch him for tips on how to present.

Another Great Video Charlie Thank you

[dennisfillhart]

From across the pond, thank you for this much-needed informative product review without the unpacking.
By the way... Always love your humor. Cheers.

[wolvertoncentresidings]

I'd never have thought to use my ultrasonic cleaner for railway model related purposes!
Mine gets used for cleaning bicycle chains pre waxing and it also works a treat on my spectacles lol.
You're " unboxing" comment was hilarious.
Great video as always Charlie

[donsharpe]

Thanks Charlie and as usual brings a smile to my face. It was less expensive than I was expecting. I was most impressed with the jewelry.

[ThisWayWorksTWW]

Hi Charlie we use these at work, try putting the wheels in a glass jar full of white spirit, the jar then goes in your mesh holder in the water 👍

[herricmountain]

You are such a breath of fresh air and knowledge. I am always eagerly waiting for your next video (and hilarious unboxing) while I try To get a move on my own layout. Thumbs up as usual.

[markfisher]

Airbrushes are like rifles in the army, cleaning before firing, cleaning after firing and daily cleaning!
I picked up on your comments about airbrush parts. I left mine unassembled after cleaning. a year later I couldn’t for the life of me remember how it went together. Off to the Internet for an exploded parts diagram! (sheepishly).

[mikewhitchurch]

I wouldn't recommend using cotton buds to clean your orifices Charlie, it only need one wayward strand to cause issues next time you use the airbrush.Use the pipecleaner style brushes specifically made for the purpose, but if you must stuff something big up your holes, use little bits of make up sponges on the end of a tweezer.

[peterharmsworth]

Stand a jar of thinners in the water put items for degreasing in jar worked wonders on my jammed freehub of my bike and no gunk left in the ultra sonic bath, I use one at work for removing silver solder flux from brass which glazes over goes rock hard and sticks like crazy to surface, five mins in ultrasonic and it crumbles ! Love the channel !

[kenwhelan]

HI Charlie i use ultrasonic cleaners a lot of the time and one method which is us full is fill the cleaner with water and place items foe cleaning in a zip loc bag with your cleaning fluid then you have only a small amount of dirty fluid to dispose of . I would suggest that you use white vinegar on the brass wheels in a zip loc back about 10 min the brass wheels your have are mainly a zinc alloy that is where much of the black comes from. As for other cleaning solutions we use bulk WD40 for cleaning and water based de grease solution for final cleaning. great channel keep up the good work.

[vincenthuying]

Funny Charlie, cool 😎 addition on jewelry cleaning!

[paullancaster]

Hi Charlie, I use Tesco or Lidl Multisurface cleaner - the Yellow Green ish colour stuff approx 1 part cleaner to 2 parts water. I don't bother heating the water up, and find 5 to 10 mins enough. A 50:50 dilution works well cleaning up brass kits.

Paul