Author Topic: Cleaning your Vacuum Pump  (Read 1364 times)

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Midi

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Cleaning your Vacuum Pump
« on: October 28, 2003, 02:10:00 PM »
So you want to clean your your vacuum pump to the fullest extent of the law, and remove all the nasty crap that could lead to a conviction if it ever came down to that.

You know you could very well sell your pump and rid yourself of this problem, but you have a tight bond with your equipment and can't bring yourself to break your uncleanable glass let alone get rid of your favorite pump.

So whats a bee to do? The contruction of my pump is all metal/steal, so I was hoping that disassembly of said pump, and soaking all the parts in a tub of Paint thinner might remove the illegal shit that is most likely everywhere within the pump.

Do you think that Paint thinner is a good solvent for the absorbtion of ketones & freebases? 

Setting up a 2 stage wash area shouldn't be too hard.. maybe a 3 stage would be better though.

Any comments, ideas, sexual problems?
Thnx.


Midi

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Maybe I was unclear..
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2003, 07:23:00 AM »
What im wondering is..

What is a good solvent one could soak his vacuum's parts in to clean his pump??

Would paint thinner do a good job at disolving ketone/freebase's stuck to the inside of your pump? Diesel fuel?? A light bleach solution??


biffman

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paranoid pump purging
« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2003, 10:30:00 AM »
You didn't really mention what kind of pump it was but if you really feel you must clean it completely and are capable of dis assembling it and more importantly getting it back together properly I would think that any sort of cleaning solvent would do.  A good spray automotive caruretor cleaner should work fine.  It dissolves a lot of solidified resins and crap that a lot of solvents might not.  Stuff seems to work real well in my experience.

Rhodium

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First a non-polar, then a polar one.
« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2003, 03:51:00 AM »
Personally, I would do it in two stages - first that thinner solution (or xylene or naphta), then an acetone bath. What one of them doesn't get, the other will, etc.

stratosphere

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if you can isolate the all the metal parts...
« Reply #4 on: October 30, 2003, 01:11:00 PM »
if you can isolate the all the metal parts from non-metal, you could always first clean it chemically, then put it in the oven and set for self clean or whatever the highest temp is, should burn off any residues.

Midi

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Yuck
« Reply #5 on: October 30, 2003, 07:28:00 PM »
Talk about nasty shit. I really should clean my oil pump more often, the amount of crap that gathers overtime is amazing. I decided to soak all the parts, everyone of which is steal, in super soapy dish water, then scrubbed all parts real well, then sprayed all down with oven cleaner and left sitting for some time.

Tomorrow will be the fun part soaking all parts in a bucket full of xylene, then acetone. She will be in need of a new paint job for sure..

Out of curiosity.. would a slightly concentrated bleach solution kill ketone/freebases on contact?


calcium

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While it's in pieces...
« Reply #6 on: October 31, 2003, 04:34:00 AM »
...you should think about a rebuild. A kit of all new non-metal parts should be easy to find.

BTW, oven cleaner = foaming NaOH sol'n.

baalchemist

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Baal has been running 'Marvel Mystery Oil'...
« Reply #7 on: November 08, 2003, 08:32:00 AM »
Baal has been running 'Marvel Mystery Oil' occaisionally through his dual-stage Hy-vac2 pump for the past 3 years now. Works just fine. Pump is going on 30 years old and still runs at specs. Most certainly its the best $50 pump Baal has purchased........