07/05/2026
WE’VE BEEN INVESTING AGAIN - Once again anything to make our lives that bit easier……….
We’ve already got a big ultra sonic parts cleaner - that was expensive and I mean very expensive! And it’s expensive to drain it down and fill with the cleaning chemicals which doesn’t take long to get contaminated if you’re throwing in everything!
I’ve now got our workshop set so our Ultra Sonic parts cleaner - is for Sunday best to finally finish parts after all the dirty work is done and the parts that come out of the Ultra Sonic stay super clean. So if I’m doing an engine rebuild that’s where I’ll drop and leave parts to get cleaned ready for assembly - including carb overhauls.
We have a workshop full of cleaning machines. We’ve got a massive automatic parts cleaner, but I didn’t get on with the finish and is now my desk down the workshop. If we have an engine with a thousand years of crud, we can use that one. We’ve also got a manual smelly parts cleaner, well we have a few of those dotted around! We have our Rumbling polishing machine. And we have our Shot, Bead and Aqua blasting machines. And we have our outside portable petrol high pressure cleaner.
But there was something missing - can you believe it - we needed ANOTHER parts cleaner - this is where our new one comes in.
This cleaner is heated and I mean heated! So hot in the winter it’s a pleasure to warm your body, in the summer it’s, well - hot very hot! It works cold, but it works so much better when the fluid is hot. Hot watery chemical soaps come out at a high pressure, in a machine what is like a sealed sand blasting machine, so you don’t get wet, or smell of horrible fumes all day! It’s super clean and makes cleaning parts a pleasure! We can now throw anything in and it cleans 10 times faster than anything we’ve had before. We now don’t have to think - will this dirty part contaminate our Ultra Sonic cleaner!
Parts that come out of the Rumbler can come out with some residue and little bits stuck to parts, other parts can go rusty if you’re not thinking about it before you go home. The new cleaner washes away any residue and also stops rust flashing. Out of the rumbler into the high pressure cleaner.
Parts that come out of the Bead and Aqua blaster can get hidden bits of grit which gets places you wouldn’t expect and you don’t want that coming out in a fresh engine rebuild - this is where our new high pressure cleaner comes in. It washes and loosens away any super fine bead particles.
The first day we got it, I used it 3 times and I’ve used it everyday since!
It’s now used to clean oil and oxidisation before we do any work. It’s used to clean off any grinding dust after work and any oilly residue from machining. And another bonus is, it blows out anything in casing threads! The parts come out hot and dries it’s self, or we drop it into our heater next to the cleaner.
And this cleaner has built in air so you can blow off the soap and clean parts even more.
In the photos I grabbed some of our dirty eBay parts, to give you an idea what it does. There’s some original paint items with over spray, it takes off overspray quiet easily but it doesn’t wash off paint unless it’s flaking and it washes off the 70 year old oil and once dried, everything is clean to fit again!
We also have a soak tank with the same chemicals for the really bad parts that you need to chisel off crud.
Now this machine was also very expensive! Not as expensive as the ultra sonic or the rumbler but enough to buy a Tv/Sx 200 or a nice car off Mathewsons!
It’s just another service we can offer, not that people come in with boxes of bits to be cleaned! I guess you all like to be hands on and smell all day. I don’t like working with dirty parts and dirty hands. Parts with oil on is not good to alloy weld - it contaminates welding rods and the welds. With all our cleaning services anyones who’s had work off us find their parts land on their door step super cleaned ready to fit.
All this comes at a cost! You all know your gas and electric has doubled at home - you want to sit on our side of the fence! The equipment we buy is expensive, it’s expensive to run and it’s expensive to service and overhaul these things!
We’re getting bombarded with service bills from suppliers left right and centre! It’s unreal the bu****it someone in an office can invent to add more to an invoice! So unfortunately we’ve had to start adding some cleaning, heating and drying surcharges to some jobs.
