Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Aqueous Parts Washer Maintenance Tips

Here are some tips to reduce money on the aqueous automatic parts washer you have in your shop or facility:
  • Use the right detergent in your mild steel cabinet that contains rust inhibitor to avoid flash rusting. Yep, we sell it.
  • Make sure and check and clean the nozzles in your parts washer monthly. Debris can get stuck in the orifices and affect the cleaning power of the washer. You would be surprised how often we run into this.
  • Clean your washer’s tank regularly to avoid solids buildup as well check and clean chip trays for better performance. We don't make the dirt disappear.
  • Make sure and check any heater & oil skimmer timers to make sure you are only skimming at night when the water is cooler, which helps the oil skim better. Also make sure heater timers are on one hour before work starts and set to turn off at the end of the day so electricity is not wasted and you are up and running when you need to be.

Hope these help. Wash on.

2 comments:

  1. I'm wondering how effective an aqueous parts washer actually is? Anybody have any experience with them and would like to share?

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  2. Well, we sell them in Indiana - so I want to share that first.. but we bought our first Cuda to use as a demo and used in our shop repairing heavy industrial equipment - the shop manager and crew dont want to give it back! Seriously. It does an awesome job, set it and come back later, no issue with steam (one of my initial concerns), and the Cuda is well designed. Takes about 20 mins to warm up the water in the morning, but it has been a workhorse for us - solvent tanks are not even used anymore. Oh, and parts are cleaner than what we could get in the past - we no longer have to soak some of the mining jack equipment. Honestly a great find for us.

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