Drying Plate for small parts

[steve1811uk]

Hi, Does anyone have a recommendation for a drying plate after rinsing parts in an ultrasonic ?

I don't have a proper cleaning machine with dry cycle unfortunately. Thanks, Steve.

[JohnR725]

Hairdryers works surprisingly well. They blow hot air which is perfect for driving.

[steve1811uk]

21 minutes ago, JohnR725 said:

Hairdryers works surprisingly well. They blow hot air which is perfect for driving.

Surely you're not being serious??? The parts would be blown all around the room.

[AndyGSi]

2 minutes ago, steve1811uk said:

Surely you're not being serious??? The parts would be blown all around the room.

You leave them in the basket you cleaned them in.

[steve1811uk]

4 hours ago, AndyGSi said:

You leave them in the basket you cleaned them in.

Will they dry ok like that, all bunched together?

[mikepilk]

12 minutes ago, steve1811uk said:

Will they dry ok like that, all bunched together?

Yes, hairdryers work really well when blown through the baskets (from both sides). Then I tip the basket contents on to some tissue paper to check the parts.

No need for fancy spinning devices or hot plates.  

[Neverenoughwatches]

20 minutes ago, steve1811uk said:

Will they dry ok like that, all bunched together?

Split up the parts into more baskets 6,8,10 baskets if needed so the parts aren't over crowded .Little difference compared to an average dedicated parts cleaner basket. Big pieces can be dried as they are.

If you want a drying plate then wax melt heaters are a good size , but warm air needs blowing through to dry parts quickly and thoroughly 

[JohnR725]

5 hours ago, steve1811uk said:

Surely you're not being serious??? The parts would be blown all around the room.

yes I was being serious but?

5 hours ago, AndyGSi said:

You leave them in the basket you cleaned them in.

yes always one of the amusements in the universe when people aren't exactly on the same page and answers don't make sense. Usually much better when you're dealing with a person right in front a you you can see immediately that something isn't quite right.

6 hours ago, steve1811uk said:

I don't have a proper cleaning machine with dry cycle unfortunately.

I think a better way to do this is I will just show you what I used to use at home. It worked fine for many many years then I had a time span where I wasn't doing any work at home and the plastic containers last time I looked had disintegrated. Even though those were rated for chemicals and as I said lasted for many years they didn't last forever so glass might've been better

so you can't see the cleaning location as the newspaper hides it. So the cleaning location is the room for normally washing clothes the newspapers on top of the washing machine. I was just like the idea of a newspaper keeps things from falling where they shouldn't be and it's easy to throw away when I'm all through.

two types of baskets purchased off of eBay. The larger one is supposed to go in some other machine typically it's supposed to be up right because the lid doesn't fit super tight and really tiny parts could escape. Which is why everything super tiny goes in the basket with the screw on lid. Then a fine wire attaches to each of the basket so I can pick them up at all the larger parts are strong on the wire

in this image the balance jewels have been removed the balance wheel is back in as it will clean just fine and everything's protected. Otherwise the balance wheel has to go out and either be strong on a wire or a large enough basket but typically it would've been strong on the wire.

different image showing how to do things

then cleaning machine people frown on what's being shown here. Although thinking about it on YouTube they frown on ultrasonic and probably just about everything in the universe. Classically with ultrasonic machines you never want to place anything directly over the transducer like a beaker for instance but this is the way the machine was sold local drugstore had them on sale a very long time ago I think this thing must've lasted almost 20 years before it disintegrated. Cleaning fluid goes in the beaker parts in the beaker in the machine with water around its yes is a lot of taking the parts out I usually put them on a paper towel to spin dry oh wait there is no spinning there but I put on paper towel the drip off while changing the fluids in the beaker it would actually better if you had separate jars 80 1F be swapping the fluids around but it didn't work

 then at some point in time they changed the rinse where basically it will not draw no matter how hot it got it would not 100% dry. I asked a friend what he was doing and he recommended alcohol. Isopropyl would be better but this is what I used and yes it does dissolves shellac. But it was only in there for a few seconds the purpose was to rinse off the rinse and goes immediately and in dryer and it was never an issue.

yes today it probably use isopropyl alcohol but what's the fun in that?

Then after a very long time very very long time the little ultrasonic like they typically do decided no longer to function. Fortunately somebody had given me this and you will note there's a piece of plastic to keep the beaker off the bottom of the tank. Then there is water in the whole tank enough that things function correctly but not so much that the beaker is in danger of floating away. Yes various YouTube people would really frown on this procedure but I don't recall any problems at all

in originally freeze-drying the hand-held hairdryer that I would just put on the newspaper and put the baskets in front didn't blow super intently and it worked perfect. But it finally disintegrated so I think I purchased this and not sure where it came from but the new one gets much hotter and blows much more intently so usually what I do is I would keep the spacing between it and the baskets much farther away. But then I got creative and made which you see in the image.

then I got even more creative and found a piece of scrap metal as I wasn't sure what the actual error pattern was I probably should conducted smoke and windtunnel tests the see the pattern of the air flow so I put a piece of sheet metal on top. Also still had a hair dryer back a distance because I did feel that it was very very hot I really can't see how anyone could dry their hair was something like that it seems like you'd get burnt but maybe that's why got it cheap someplace?

so there is how I used to clean watches at home. Now if I needed to clean a watch a just go to work and use an astronomically expensive machine that does a really nice job. But even without the astronomically expensive machine DIY works quite well.

[steve1811uk]

2 hours ago, JohnR725 said:

yes I was being serious but?

yes always one of the amusements in the universe when people aren't exactly on the same page and answers don't make sense. Usually much better when you're dealing with a person right in front a you you can see immediately that something isn't quite right.

I think a better way to do this is I will just show you what I used to use at home. It worked fine for many many years then I had a time span where I wasn't doing any work at home and the plastic containers last time I looked had disintegrated. Even though those were rated for chemicals and as I said lasted for many years they didn't last forever so glass might've been better

so you can't see the cleaning location as the newspaper hides it. So the cleaning location is the room for normally washing clothes the newspapers on top of the washing machine. I was just like the idea of a newspaper keeps things from falling where they shouldn't be and it's easy to throw away when I'm all through.

two types of baskets purchased off of eBay. The larger one is supposed to go in some other machine typically it's supposed to be up right because the lid doesn't fit super tight and really tiny parts could escape. Which is why everything super tiny goes in the basket with the screw on lid. Then a fine wire attaches to each of the basket so I can pick them up at all the larger parts are strong on the wire

in this image the balance jewels have been removed the balance wheel is back in as it will clean just fine and everything's protected. Otherwise the balance wheel has to go out and either be strong on a wire or a large enough basket but typically it would've been strong on the wire.

different image showing how to do things

then cleaning machine people frown on what's being shown here. Although thinking about it on YouTube they frown on ultrasonic and probably just about everything in the universe. Classically with ultrasonic machines you never want to place anything directly over the transducer like a beaker for instance but this is the way the machine was sold local drugstore had them on sale a very long time ago I think this thing must've lasted almost 20 years before it disintegrated. Cleaning fluid goes in the beaker parts in the beaker in the machine with water around its yes is a lot of taking the parts out I usually put them on a paper towel to spin dry oh wait there is no spinning there but I put on paper towel the drip off while changing the fluids in the beaker it would actually better if you had separate jars 80 1F be swapping the fluids around but it didn't work

 then at some point in time they changed the rinse where basically it will not draw no matter how hot it got it would not 100% dry. I asked a friend what he was doing and he recommended alcohol. Isopropyl would be better but this is what I used and yes it does dissolves shellac. But it was only in there for a few seconds the purpose was to rinse off the rinse and goes immediately and in dryer and it was never an issue.

yes today it probably use isopropyl alcohol but what's the fun in that?

Then after a very long time very very long time the little ultrasonic like they typically do decided no longer to function. Fortunately somebody had given me this and you will note there's a piece of plastic to keep the beaker off the bottom of the tank. Then there is water in the whole tank enough that things function correctly but not so much that the beaker is in danger of floating away. Yes various YouTube people would really frown on this procedure but I don't recall any problems at all

in originally freeze-drying the hand-held hairdryer that I would just put on the newspaper and put the baskets in front didn't blow super intently and it worked perfect. But it finally disintegrated so I think I purchased this and not sure where it came from but the new one gets much hotter and blows much more intently so usually what I do is I would keep the spacing between it and the baskets much farther away. But then I got creative and made which you see in the image.

then I got even more creative and found a piece of scrap metal as I wasn't sure what the actual error pattern was I probably should conducted smoke and windtunnel tests the see the pattern of the air flow so I put a piece of sheet metal on top. Also still had a hair dryer back a distance because I did feel that it was very very hot I really can't see how anyone could dry their hair was something like that it seems like you'd get burnt but maybe that's why got it cheap someplace?

so there is how I used to clean watches at home. Now if I needed to clean a watch a just go to work and use an astronomically expensive machine that does a really nice job. But even without the astronomically expensive machine DIY works quite well.

Fantastic help here. Thank you.

[Neverenoughwatches]

So this is how i know that me and John are actually related in some way lol

[RichardHarris123]

Probably like brothers with that love/ hate relationship.  Hehe. 

[Ammar]

I just use those usb heating pads, I mentioned them before on the forum somewhere, they're cheap and great to dry parts very easily.

Do not get the ones that have a resistor wire as a heating element those suck.

[Neverenoughwatches]

On 7/2/2024 at 9:37 PM, RichardHarris123 said:

Probably like brothers with that love/ hate relationship.  Hehe. 

well spotted Rich, i love him, he hates me

[Daveuk]

I bought a cheap food dehydrator, lots of surface area for small baskets and parts, with low moving warm air.

[Neverenoughwatches]

54 minutes ago, Daveuk said:

I bought a cheap food dehydrator, lots of surface area for small baskets and parts, with low moving warm air.

I also have one of these as seen iny pictures but i really like the extra speed and heat of a hair drier as above