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Ultrasonic Cleaner HELP
Hello all,
Can anyone recomend a good sonic cleaner? I currently own a sonic cleaner I bought from Gesswein. I am a long standing customer of Gesswein but I am very unhappy with the cleaner. It's a Gesswein/Elma Ultrasonic Cleaner LC30H an it just doesn't seem to do a good enough job. Any recommendations would be much appreciated, Jay |
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On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 09:29:00 GMT, in rec.crafts.jewelry "Jay C. Canale"
wrote: Hello all, Can anyone recomend a good sonic cleaner? I currently own a sonic cleaner I bought from Gesswein. I am a long standing customer of Gesswein but I am very unhappy with the cleaner. It's a Gesswein/Elma Ultrasonic Cleaner LC30H an it just doesn't seem to do a good enough job. Any recommendations would be much appreciated, Jay Call Gesswein, and ask to talk to Elaine Corwin, their V.P. for product design (well, I don't recall her exact title, but something like that.) Elaine is a highly knowlegeable person in matters of products and their qualities, and should be able to help you work this out. Gesswein is pretty good about taking care of their customers, and backing their products. Note that the Elmas gemerally have a very good reputation. However, also note that in general, the smaller ultrasonics from any manufacturer are often likely to be lower powered than the bigger units. If you want a more powerful unit, consider those where the power generator is a seperate box from the tank. The larger Bransonics for example. Elma machines, as well as "healthsonics", are often also sold under other, private labels, such as "ottosonic" from Frei and Borel, something you'd not see if they weren't considered good quality. But smaller unites, especially those without heaters, simply are intended to be gentler lower powered machines, and can be expected to take longer to do a job. One tradeoff, though, is that with lower powers, they don't as often damage things. The higher powered machines are quite capable of damaging the polish on softer metals like cast sterling silver, where any porosity in the silver shows up as white frosty streaks after even a short time in the ultrasonic. You can easily test any decent ultrasonic to be sure it is indeed working. Fill with plain water and the usual operating temp, and hold a piece of standard weight aluminum foil, vertically, in the tank almost to the bottom, along the diagonal corner to corner direction in the tank. Examine it after, say, 30 seconds to a minute in the machine. It should be punched through with lots of tiny pinholes fairly evenly distributed over the surface. If you don't see that, then it's possible your unit is indeed not working, ie burned out transducers or transducers that have become detached from the tank, or the like. Hope that helps Peter |
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vj found this in rec.crafts.jewelry, from "Jay C. Canale"
: ]It's a Gesswein/Elma Ultrasonic ]Cleaner LC30H an it just doesn't seem to do a good enough job. just out of curiosity, could it be the cleaning solution and not the cleaner itself? -- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books) http://www.booksnbytes.com (Jewelry) http://www.vickijean.com/new.html (Metalsmithing) http://www.snugglewench.com yahooID: vjean95967 ----------- bottom line, if your cat doesn't act strange, eccentric, inexplicable or some other varient of same, you've messed up and gotten a dog. -- Izunya -- Callahans |
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