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Hey!. i just watched on youtube and he talked about a Ultrasonic cleaner?, does it realy work great when you want to strip down the colors on your models?
or remove your glue from the model aswell so you can re-assemble it.. so is this worth buying?

And do you realy just use tap-water and that will be strong enough to remove the color?
or do you have to use any special liquid ?

I use a ultrasonic cleaner with degreaser products like Super Clean. Works great. Saves a lot of work.

Also used to give my airbrush a deep clean every month or so.

I have one. I've used it a few times. Didn't really notice a diced eve between it and a good deep cleaning on my airbrush that I can do in all of about 10 minutes.

Okay, sounds great....
so i can use any cleaning product that you have in your kitchen ?
and it realy makes the model clean from color again ?
and do it takes away super glue aswell or ?

I use hot water and a splash of Simple Green. It works well for stripping provided you have not loaded too many figs in at a time.

I mostly use it to clean my airbrush parts. If you have an airbrush, I would consider this almost a must have.

If all you want you want to drop s model in a tank and hit a button expecting it to be stripped, you will be disappointed.

An ultrasonic cleaner will knock loose some flecks that are stuck to the surface, but unless you're using a powerful chemical that would peel off the paint anyways, it's not gonna work (some paint will come off, but unless you want to hit that timer button a hundred times, it won't be a lot in 1 cycle). Some primers are very stubborn once fully cured, too, and require some elbow grease to strip.

The only product I know of that is totally fire and forget is HCl (Hydrochloric acid) on metal miniatures. For obvious reasons, I don't think it's a good idea for most of us!

The reason it's useful for airbrush is that there are many hard to reach places, even with a pope cleaner and we have a tendency to miss some paint.

The key thing with an ultrasonic is getting on that can do long cycles, most of the cheap ones from fleabay are going to have 8 minute max cycles - get a larger one and you will be fine.

Isopropanol works a treat as well

What you really need is ordinary pine soap (alltså Grumme gul- eller grönsåpa) and a toothbrush. Just put the pine soap in a jar and let the minis soak for a night or so, then take them up and scrub them. I have a ultrasonic cleaner, and while it is useful if you like me have a huge army to strip, you certainly don't need one. What it does is that it removes most of the scrubbing, you still need to soak them