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Parts and contaminants · 4 min readUltrasonic cleaning of industrial filters for reuseStainless mesh, sintered metal and wire-wound filters can be cleaned and reused many times; paper and felt cannot. Which filters are worth cleaning, how to get the dirt out of the depth of the medium rather than just its surface, and how to prove a cleaned filter is fit to go back into service.
Parts and contaminants · 4 min readCleaning hydraulic valves and manifold blocks with ultrasoundA hydraulic manifold is a block of intersecting drillings, and every one of them must be free of chips, burr flakes and coolant before oil touches it. The cleaning sequence after deburring, the cleanliness targets, the equipment for new blocks and for repaired valves, and how to keep the clean block clean until it is plugged.
Industries · 3 min readUltrasonic cleaning in heavy industry: energy, oil and gas, mining, railHeat exchangers, valves, pump and compressor parts, turbine components, hydraulic blocks and filters from plants where a stopped machine costs more per hour than the cleaning tank costs to buy. Large tanks, heavy baskets, scale and heavy oil, and the maintenance schedules they fit into.