Is It Safe To Clean Cerakote Finish In Ultrasonic Cleaner

• #v

for acetone, i dont use any PPE.......honestly unless you are drinking it, its pretty harmless......itll dry out your hands, and then bones nitrile gloves might exist good.

for Methanol......that shit actually quite dangerous......i will always wear chemic resistant gloves and Prophylactic glasses and wash my hands afterwards treatment it.

• #7

Don't care for either one of those chemicals lightly, this is what your hands and feet expect similar to them:

Care for both with respect, MSDS is pretty nasty reading for Acetone. ENSURE yous have acceptable ventilation in the garage, if information technology is fastened to the house be sure information technology is closed (current fire code in my state spells this out, should be like in other states)

As bad as Acetone and Methanol are, the Cerakote (both H and C series) is mode, way worse. Read the precautions on the label, follow them. I won't shoot cerakote unless I have positive smoke removal. Pets are a big consideration as well, birds especially.

I made a huge mistake in my 20'southward working on Shipping Oxygen systems--regulations required all tools degreased with a chemical called M6. I wore the wrong gloves during that process, my hands took over six years to get dorsum to normal. The M6 basically stripped out all the fats in my skin and chemically burned them to a degree, had open up wound not-healing cracks in the webs of my fingers for half-dozen years before things got better. Got used to supergluing the cracks every bit a daily routine (fun fact, super glue was invented for medical usage) That was a big fight with the visitor medical, arbitration ruling was 50/50. fifty% my fault for doing information technology, 50% their fault for not training properly. I read nearly chemicals earlier working with them at present.

That was a chemical on my pare, imagine if you breathe that crap what your lungs would do? I cannot stress highly plenty to exist careful with spraying cerakote in a residential setting.

I use acetone for prep of parts. Have containers with lids, acetone likes to get bored and go out the party early (evaporates chop-chop). I use different containers for prep, one for initial make clean (gets dirty), ane for soak/rinse afterwards outgassing in the oven.

• #8

I called around and Methanol is actually pretty expensive here and not many places to get it..$90 for 5 gallons, which is more than acetone at Home Depot. So, given the "safer" characteristics I judge acetone it is.

Thanks for the input fellas.

Wow , that has gone up in price. Used to exist $5-vi bucks at the racetrack/dragstrip. See if you accept a local racing grouping, Methanol is a pop drag race fuel (weird touching the engine heads of a Meth burner after a pass, they are quite cold. non what you would await from a supercharged big block running in the depression vii'south). Karting guys sometimes utilise Methanol as well.

• #xi

Non-Chlorinated restriction cleaner is combustible, Chlorinated brake cleaner isn't but exposing the vapors from Chlorinated to a flame in an enclosed surface area will still impale you.

There may be some exceptions simply I sold Brake Cleaner for several years and I never saw 1.

Flames and estrus and chlorinated brake cleaners do not mix well, phosgene gas is a nervus gas by product of that combo. Actually saw this in a Ac circular advisory from the FAA relating to this commodity: http://world wide web.brewracingframes.com/prophylactic-warning-brake-cleaner--phosgene-gas.html

• #15

I've actually had really good luck with ninety percent isopropyl booze. Information technology'southward super cheap and seems to get the job done without trying to impale you.

• #20

My process is pretty similar. I degrease with dawn and warm water prior to and post blasting. I soak all the parts in booze to displace the water. I spray with alcohol one more fourth dimension and wipe clean with a microfiber towel prior to shooting with cerakote.

• #24

Brownells brand a neat spray degreaser, and all i use is a respirator and gloves.

• #30

If y'all're painting aluminum or stainless steel, y'all can use hot water and Dawn dish detergent get-go and soak the parts for a while followed by a adept rinse before using Acetone. For larger carbon steel parts, I utilise Acetone dipped for xx-30 minutes in a container with a hat to keep fumes and evaporation down followed past heating the parts in the oven to get any oil to creep out. If oil comes out, dip it again and heat again until there'due south no oil creep.

Amen.

Astonishing what soap, water, and some elbow grease does. Not everything needs to exist killed with organic solvents.

• #33

I disagree.

Information technology is most impossible to keep all contaminates out of your aluminum oxide or other smash media. Regardless of how good you pre-prep parts earlier blasting, you volition accumulate foreign material in your cabinet. Even if you have extra filters in your airline to keep atomized lubricants and other blow past out of your final air supply coupled with a dust vacuum connected to the cabinet, you are introducing unwanted material into the cabinet environs each time you boom a new part.

My preference is to always practise a terminal wash downwardly prior to coating out of an abundance of caution.

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I have a very sparse film after diggings, I rub information technology off and acetone over again, haven't had an issue either.

Last edited: Jul ten, 2022

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