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Is This the Best Way to Clean Car Parts? Vevor Ultrasonic Cleaner Test
I put the Vevor 15L Ultrasonic Cleaner through real shop use to see how it performs on noise, heat accuracy, and cleaning power. If you’re wondering whether this large-capacity ultrasonic cleaner is worth it, here’s the breakdown from hands-on testing.
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Hey, it's Mark Lapore, Pro Shaper Sheet
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Metal in Charlton, Massachusetts. And we
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finally got Ray to get an ultrasonic
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cleaner. Now, Ray always has me taking
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things like this, all this grease. I got
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to clean it out with lacquer thinner by
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hand and brush it and everything. But
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now I got kind of a watered sand blaster
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cuz he hates sand blasting. I kind of
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convinced him to do this. So, let's
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check it out.
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So, this thing definitely takes cleaning
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to the next level. It's the V4 15 L
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ultrasonic cleaner. Now, if you notice
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that uh prices back maybe 5 years ago,
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uh the cost of this would probably be
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about 1,800 15- 1800 for about a 15 L.
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This thing is ginormous.
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Here's the inside just for a quick look.
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Awesome basket. Even comes with a little
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jewelry basket, some tape that I was
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supposed to put on that hose, but I like
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to live dangerously. And that's just an
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awesome drain. This is the one thing I
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actually really love about this is I
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don't have to pick it up and dump it
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into a bucket because that is uh kind of
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crazy. This way all I got to do is just
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open up the spigot, let it all drain
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out. Probably got a little bit of stuff
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at the bottom. Um but you can just wipe
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that off with a paper towel. And
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depending on the cleaning solution you
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use, you can put all different you can
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clean pretty much anything in here. If
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you're going to use jewelry, I highly
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recommend um if you know anything about
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stones, don't do any of the soft stones
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like opal, turquoise, emerald, amber,
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pearl, or coral, or even if the stone is
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cracked, but it's a diamond cuz this
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could just make things completely worse.
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Now, a lot of the stuff can just use uh
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Dawn detergent and some water. If you
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fill this up, you don't want to run it
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dry. You want at least 3 in of water,
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but I highly recommend you go to the top
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of the line. Inside, it holds about 13
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and 12 L. Once the basket is in place,
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um baskets nice for holding like larger
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pieces like that, uh carburetor, uh
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anything smaller, jewelry, anything like
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that. They got this cool little I call
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it the little tea bag thing that you can
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just put it in there and then just drop
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on the side. Now, again, you want you
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don't want to run this dry cuz you could
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just break all the transducers. The
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front control panel is digital. Uh the
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timer only goes up to 30 minutes and the
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heat settings are in Celsius. Um, but
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you got the start, stop buttons, the on,
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off, temperature up, temperature down,
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and the time up and down. Now, in the
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back
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is where you turn it on. And then you
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got a heater that goes up to 175° F.
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They set it in Celsius. Um, and the
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timer goes from 0 to 30 minutes. They do
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recommend that, uh, depending on what
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kind of cleaning solution you use, you
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want to pay attention if it's got any
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aluminum in it. You don't want to let it
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uh stay in there too long because
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chances are you could pit the aluminum
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and we're not about to do that. So, what
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I'm actually going to do is just see how
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well it cleans using Dawn dish soap and
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uh water. So, I almost have it about
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filled to the top. I'm going to show you
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right here. Have it almost filled to the
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top. Now, you want to make sure you
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don't run this without water because you
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could just kill all the transducers. Um,
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minimum you want to set that at about
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three inches from the bottom with water.
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Um, maximum you want to go up to that
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line right there, that groove. Now,
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power-wise, it runs at about 360 watts
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ultrasonic and 400 watts heating. Uh,
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again, it has I'm not sure if I said
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this, but it has six transducers, which
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is actually twice as much as uh normal
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or smaller ultrasonic cleaners, so you
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get a more even cleaning uh much faster.
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Now, the recommendation, uh, if you're
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using Dawn dish soap, you want about one
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tablespoon for every five milliliters.
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So, if this is 15, you want about 3
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tablespoons. I don't have a tablespoon
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on me, so I'm just going to kind of
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say it's about three.
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That's about three.
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Going to add a little bit more water
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because I want that going to the top.
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It's at least at the top of the basket.
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And now I'm going to take Bob's
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carburetor and then these little PL uh
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these other like little sprockets I
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have. I just found them on a shelf
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somewhere. So Ray, if I mess these up,
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I'm sorry. Yeah, I'm just going to add
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them right in there.
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Put that in
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so that it's all submerged. I'm probably
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just going to top it off with a little
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bit more water. Hang on one second.
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So, as you can see, the parts are
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completely submerged. Um, it's not
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running running yet. Um, you could tell
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with the digital readouts right next to
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the numbers, there are two on lights.
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Uh, as long as those aren't on, you're
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okay. If they are on, you just kind of
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want to pay attention to how long you
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keep it in. Again, the digital readout
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is 30 minutes max. But you don't want to
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leave parts sitting in there, especially
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if they got aluminum, because it can
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cause pitting. So, I'm just going to be
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very careful with this. I'll probably do
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it at about 15 minutes and then see what
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happens. We're going to give a quick
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science breakdown. Now, how this machine
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works is it creates high frequency sound
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waves in the tank and those sound waves
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form microscopic bubbles that collapse
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against the surface of whatever you you
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have in here. Um, again, we have the
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carburetor. It blasts away dirt, carbon,
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grease, and residue more so depending on
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what kind of solution you actually have.
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Um, and this process is actually called
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cavitation. And it's extremely
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effective. And that's why ultrasonic
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cleaners, they're used in labs, gun
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shops, jewelry stores, and machine
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shops. I actually saw a guy use uh his
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spent brass shell casings, and he'd put
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it in here before he'd uh refill them
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again. And I thought that was actually
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really cool. The only thing with this is
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I know that when you turn it on, the
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ultrasonic frequency can kind of mess up
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with the camera or the audio, but I'm
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just going to turn it on, see what
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happens right now, and then I might just
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edit the audio so that it's kicked off.
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But I wanted you to hear it. So, here we
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go. We got it set for 20 minutes. We got
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We make sure that everything's um below
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the water. There's nothing above. It's
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covering the top of the basket. So,
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we're good. Now, we're just going to
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turn it on. We got it set for 20. There
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we go.
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Now, I don't know if you can hear that.
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I'm going to put on my headset for a
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minute. Hang on one second.
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Yeah, I can hear that coming through.
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I'm gonna probably back it up just a
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little bit. Maybe it gets a little
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easier. Um, but yeah, I'm told um it's
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around 90 dB.
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It just sounds like a weird washing
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machine or dishwasher that's
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um using like high jets. It It's not too
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bad. I'd recommend this probably in the
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basement. Right now, we got a 20,000t
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shop, so it doesn't bother anybody. I
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got my boss. He's asleep. But now let's
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take a look at what it's actually doing.
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And you can see those bubbles
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and get a little bit greater.
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But yeah, it's uh you can see it's
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really working. A little bit of suds up
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top.
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You can even see the water is a
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different color right now. It's It's
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definitely working. And that's just with
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Dawn soap and water. All right,
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everything's off. You can hear it's
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quiet except Brian uh grinding in the
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background. I'm sorry for that. I'm just
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going to make sure I turn that off.
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And now let's see what happens without
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the bubbles.
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Okay, I actually didn't let it cool off.
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I just really want to get hooks and want
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to take the basket out. Actually did a
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fairly decent job. Could have probably
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put it in longer. Uh maybe 10 minutes
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longer.
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I'm going to wash this off with water
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right now. That's gorgeous. Even got
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some of that glue or wax off uh over
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here. It didn't, of course, it's dawn
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and hot water, so it's not going to mess
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with the aluminum. Once you clean them,
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you want to use an air gun. Um and and
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just really get in every nook and cranny
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in here. So, you don't want any flash
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rust.
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Okay. I'm not really sure that you can
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see how cleaned up. I mean, again, it
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was just Dawn soap cuz I'm not messing
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up Bob's carburetor, but like this thing
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is caked with grease and so are these.
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Now all I see is just, you know, rust
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because these things have been sitting
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on a shelf and it only takes a little
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bit to get some uh little rust on it.
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But you could take that off with Oh god,
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I use rust 911. I love that stuff. But
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it didn't damage any of the aluminum.
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Everything looks good except that rubber
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gasket. But I mean that was, let's be
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real, 70 years old, that thing was
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already cracked. It was just covered
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with grease. Um, that looks good. Like
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up, everything looks beautiful on this.
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It could do a better job if I had a
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better solution. Again, I will mess with
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everything else. Not going to mess with
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other people's stuff. With my
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carburetor, I'd put gasoline in the
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thing and I'd light it on fire. I don't
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care. Uh you could see it is I don't
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know if you can see. Yeah, it's still
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steaming. So, I'm just going to give
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that another probably another 15 minutes
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and then we will go from there. All
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right. Now, for my favorite part, we're
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going to I'm going to go slow, but just
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because I didn't put the tape on the
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threads over here, so it may leak out.
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If it does, I'm just going to unhook
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this and do it off the side. But, let's
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see her go.
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I made sure I got it all unplugged and
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everything. And the power is turned off.
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So
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yeah, there's a little leak,
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but my god, look at this. Come on. I
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don't have to lift that darn thing up.
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It would have gotten all over the floor.
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This water is really dirty.
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Not so much stuff. It probably all
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drained out into the bucket, but um I
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mean it's not too bad. So, let me just
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wipe that down and give you my final
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results. So, yes, Ray said, "Mark,
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you're an idiot. There is no aluminum on
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that carburetor." I said, "I don't know.
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I don't want to do it cuz it's Bob's."
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And he said, "No, no, put it in. Just
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use the degreaser." I said, "Okay, we're
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going to try. We're going to see what
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what it does." I'm going to turn this
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on, heat this up.
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Gonna keep the same. We're going to keep
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the same temperature and same time. 20
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minutes
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set at 40 right now.
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All right, I'll be back in a couple of
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minutes.
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All right, so it's at 65° Celsius. I'll
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have to put in what it is in Fahrenheit
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after I edit this video.
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We're going to put in that uh carburetor
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a second time. The first time was just a
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real cleaning from uh the dawn in the
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water. And we got these plates and a
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bucket of bolts and springs and stuff
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that I'm going to leave in that bucket
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inside the ultrasonic. I want to see
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what it does. I'm going to cover that
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up. I'm going to do it again. Same 20
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minutes.
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Temperature is still on.
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All right. Again, you can hear that.
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We're going to back up a little bit.
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I don't want it to interfere with the
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camera or the microphone.
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And that's it. Just counting down. I
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will see you guys back here in another
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19 minutes 40 seconds.
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All right, it just finished. You can see
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the steam coming off of that. Very
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cloudy. That's okay. And all the parts
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are in there. Let's take them out
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without burning ourselves.
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All right. So, that's what it looks like
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now. It's too hot to touch. I'm gonna go
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wash those off with water right now.
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All right. So, there were the bolts. Uh
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those things cleaned up fantastic. All
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you see right now is just um the rust
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that's been on there for I don't know 30
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years or so. Same thing with those
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brackets. But here's where the um that
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carburetor shined up a lot more. Ray Ray
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thinks it's like, all right, it actually
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it cleaned it pretty well. What he wants
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to do now is he wants to put rust 911 in
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there. And he wants me to put those
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pieces in. Now, Russ 911 usually takes
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several hours to 24 hours.
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I'm just going to put it in for 30
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minutes. I don't think I'm going to heat
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it up as much. I'll figure that out in a
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second. But yeah, we're going to do one
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more run. We're going to put all that
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stuff in with or a small piece of brass
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and maybe the carburetor on a small
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thing of rust 911 solution. See what
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happens. All right, we got this filled
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up with rust 911 solution. It's one
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quart for 5 gall, but I did one quart
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for 2 and 12 gallons. Don't tell Ray,
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he'll never see this. Um, then I'm the
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uh the brackets that we all cleaned got
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some serious rust on them. Now, again, I
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let this sit in Rust 911 solution for
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about
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24 hours or so. I'm going to crank this
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up to 30 minutes. That's as uh the time
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that's as high as the time will go. I'm
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going to put that those in there.
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And I'm not going to do it to 65
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uh degrees Celsius. And
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I have a whole bunch of brass that we're
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going to put in there. I just wanted to
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see how it I wanted to see how uh Rust
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911 actually does with it. Just going to
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use the rusty brackets and the brass.
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Move that out of the way.
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Oh, that's nice and warm.
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All right. So, you see it in there.
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We'll see how it looks in about 30
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minutes. I'm going to keep it about 40
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I'm going to turn off the heater.
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I'm going to turn off the heater and
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keep it at about 46°
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uh Celsius. I don't know what that is in
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Fahrenheit, but uh that looks good
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enough to me. I'm going to up you
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30 minutes. Move everything out of the
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way.
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Cover it up
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and we'll see what happens.
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All right. And we are finished. Of
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course, raising the background, cutting
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up some uh stainless steel, but that's
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what the water looks like right now.
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It's uh very dark. Oh, it's not water.
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It's the rust 911 solution. Everything
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usually gets that way after about 24 or
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48 hours when I dump stuff. So, let's
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just take a look. Okay, so I don't know
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if you remember how rusted these things
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were. There's a little bit of surface s
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and just discoloration really. But rust
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911 for 30 minutes in uh ultrasonic
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cleaner and probably had that in a weird
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location. But that was covered in rust
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and now it's just a little bit. If I
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soak that if I just soak it in there for
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30 minutes, it should be good. Um then
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here's all the brass. And I don't know
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if there's any copper. It's the only one
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that looks a little off, but like I
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don't think it's stuff either. I think
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it's just solder,
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but those look great. Look at those.
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I'm happy.
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So, that was rust 911 for 30 minutes.
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So, I'm sure if you did an hour, you'd
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get everything good. This is the
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all-encompassing review. We used Dawn
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Soap, we used the Zepsi Citrus, and then
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Rush 911. Um, I think they all did their
15:53
jobs perfectly. Depending on what kind
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of solution you use is depending on what
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kind of results you get. That's really
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it. It It all depends on the solution.
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This thing's doing its job perfectly. I
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know a lot of people are upset. They
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want to see where we are with the alpha,
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but again, this is a working shop, guys,
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and when we get big jobs in, we have to
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kind of do those first. We greatly
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appreciate your uh your patience and
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comments and likes on all our other
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videos. And I told Ramwa to keep the
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channel going. So doing the only thing I
16:22
know how to do is tool reviews. Um
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because if anything with work, it's just
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impossible to have one person doing the
16:28
camera and trying to get all the angles
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right. This is much easier. Static shot.
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Put everything in, push the button, walk
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away. So that's all we got. This is Mark
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from ProChaper Sheet Metal in Charlton,
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Massachusetts. Thanks for watching and
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we'll see you on the next