Everybody raves about ultrasonic cleaners for fuel nozzles

I used one for 2 years on Pratt nozzles and saw zero improvement in flow bench numbers after. Switched to a simple hand soak in a specific solvent blend my old mentor swore by and got a 12% flow increase on the first set. Any of you other guys seen cleaner results going old school instead of fancy gear?

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matthewh2823d ago

Used to be in the ultrasonic camp myself... stubborn about it too. But your hand soak results kind of make me want to try that on my next set of injectors.

ericschmidt23d ago

Man, I hear you on that "hand soak" part. That's exactly what flipped my thinking too. I was all in on the ultrasonic hype for years and kept telling myself the numbers would come around eventually. But they never did. It's almost embarrassing how stubborn I was about it. What you described with your mentor's solvent blend is exactly the kind of real world experience that cuts through all the marketing noise. Makes me wonder how much time and money I wasted chasing something that just looks fancy but doesn't actually work better.