Just came across this short (<5 minutes) video clip on youtube. He builds himself a little vibrating "ultrasonic" parts cleaner using a sander. I thought it was quite clever, wished I had spotted it before I tackled my fuel tap, might have been able to salvage the plastic screen.

Check it out:  

I haven't watched this one yet but keep in mind that Ichiban videos are generally comedy spoofs and are not meant to be taken seriously. 

Definitely bad-azz!

Funny thing is this time what he made seems to work.

I love the one where he's talking about gas tanks and suggests waving a lit match over the mouth of the tank to make sure the tank has been purged of all the gas and fumes...

Umm...  very likely he started with a cruddy part and then swapped for a brand new part at the end. 

That's how he generally does things. 

The old "swap it out in the edit" routine, eh? Yes; I'm not about to go out and build one at his suggestion...just that usually in his vids, something goes terribly wrong. Nothing here went terribly wrong...
And my "definitely bad-azz" is a direct quote of what he usually says at some point in the vid! Not to be read as a compliment on his work.

I get it Jim...

I don't ever remember his "repairs" going terribly wrong...  they are ridiculously miraculous in most cases. 

Like his spark plug thread repair here:



Obviously he started by using a 10mm plug in a 14mm hole...  did a ridiculous heli-coil parody with what looks like hand-wound coils of solder, garnet sandpaper, and "thread glue"...  and then announced the repair complete without showing he had now installed the correct 14mm plug. 

The "ultrasonic cleaner" is less obvious...  but likely not any less a parody/joke.  I have not tried CLR on aluminum but it wouldn't surprise me if a petcock soaked for an hour and fifteen minutes in CLR would come out badly corroded and pitted...  if it didn't completely dissolve!

Just use caution is all I'm saying. 

 

I've seen this vid as I was looking into buying an ultrasonic cleaner. In principle it should work but not very practical.

Ended up buying the standard, Chinese made tin box, works a treat and not very expensive.

In the spark plug thread video, we even got a TWOFER on the "Bad-azz!"

The tire changing video is one of my favorites.