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Trial Number 7

Trial Purpose:

Follow up evaluation of spray rinse.

Date Run:

04/12/2002

Experiment Procedure:

Fifteen preweighed coupons were coated with four contaminants from the previous trials. Three coupons were coated with the different contaminants. Bencyn B-5186 (64742-52-5, 9003-29-6, 39464-69-2, 63197-48-8), The Valvoline Co, Tectyl 505 (8052-41-3), C.A. Wood C-Eblis Cutting Fluid (64742-53-6, 64742-52-5) and ITW Devcon Safetap Stick grease. Coupons were reweighed. The fifteen coupons were hung on a metal stand and immersed into a Crest 40 kHz ultrasonic tank and cleaned for 1 minutes using ultrasonics at 92 F, removed and rinsed in a tap water bath and re-immersed into the ultrasonics for an additional 1 minute followed by a second 5 second rinse. The coupons were then dried using an air knife for 15 seconds.

Trial Results:

None of the contaminants were removed to any great extent under these cleaning/rinsing methods. Three of the four were removed between 70 and 80% of the contaminant. The Bencyn contaminant was only removed at 17%.

Cleaner Coupon 1 Coupon 2 Coupon 3 Average Std Dev
Bencyn 29.62 16.95 3.99 16.85 12.82
Tectyl 74.97 65.82 71.53 70.77 4.62
C-Eblis 76.66 73.7 82.65 77.67 4.56
Safetap 89.47 69.41 79.29 79.39 10.03

Success Rating:

A follow up test, usually based on company input.

Conclusion:

Using ultrasonic cleaning in conjunction without a spray rinse was shown not to be an effective cleaning process for the four contaminants.

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