On Monday, November 28, 2016 at 12:58:19 PM UTC-5, Califbill wrote:
wrote:
On Mon, 28 Nov 2016 08:31:33 -0800 (PST), Tim
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If you want to dry it good. Hive it a good shot of brake-clean or better
yet, starting fluid ( eather) then let it sit. It'll be dry as a desert
bone in moments. Then use light gun oil on reassembly.

The mineral spirits and machine oil thing cuts out most of this drama.
The solvent does a good job of cleaning things and the oil remains
after you wipe or evaporate off the spirits.
In an ultrasonic cleaner you just start it up and go get a cup of
coffee.
IBM used to have a couple of big sprayer type cleaners at 1801 K to
clean typewriters and that was the mix they used (mineral spirits and
IBM #6 oil) ... until the fire marshal found out. I ended up with one
of them after that. You could get a whole VW or Harley engine in one.
Run it about an hour and they came out looking brand new.
They did smoke a might after you put them back together, indicating
how much oil did penetrate the pores of the metal.


We had spray booths, where you had a pressure wand like the car wash. Had
dirty solvent and clean solvent wands. Wash out the mechanical register or
accounting machine with dirty first and then clean solvent. Worked great
on camp stoves after we went abalone diving and fried the dinner.

Back when I first started working after college, our company built PC boards. After they went through the wave soldering machine, they were cleaned in a tank of boiling freon. There was a spray wand and there were cooling coils around the top to condense the vapor and return it to the tank. You could stick your hand in it, and it came out chalky-looking because the freon washed the oils from your skin. It was only a couple of years before the freon became so expensive that the industry went to water-soluble flux. At that point the boards went into a commercial "dishwasher" of sorts for cleaning. Not as much fun as the freon tank, but much better for the environment.