How to clean machine parts

Cleaning machine parts to be worked on or before refitting requires some very serious cleaning chemicals. The cleaning products required are called soak tank cleaners and they need to be able to effectively cut through huge amounts of grease for the machine parts to clean enough.

Machine parts are usually cleaned using a method called soak tank cleaning. This involves dipping a basket containing the relevant machine parts into a drum containing the cleaning product. These soak tank cleaners can be hot or cold. Typically a cold soak tank cleaner would be solvent based. This usually requires a larger financial outlay initially however if the product is used and stored correctly it can last for as long as five years.

Hot soak tank cleaners are water-based and do not cost as much as cold tank cleaners. There is a rather large running cost on this cleaning product. Hot soak tank cleaners will need to be heated to a temperature of around 70 degrees Celsius before the dip basket can be lowered into the cleaning product. Once it has been heated up adequately the dip basket can be lowered into the cleaning product and may need to stay there for up to two hours. This can equate to five hours of heating.  With electricity costs being what they are these days this can add up to a huge electricity bill.

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