Ultrasonic Cleaner for a bike chain?

Just spotted that ALDI are doing a Thursday special buy Ultrasonic Cleaner for £17.50.

I know its for jewellery, but has anyone tried one, to clean a bike chain?

What happened? 😉

There was a thread last week recommending an Aldi one for exactly that…

opps should have searched first 😉

thanks druidh

Nae probs – I’m thinking along the same lines myself.

FFS it’s a bike chain.

and some people like to keep things clean, one of the benifits is they last longer. plus you can clean other things in it as well

Yes, I understand the point of ultrasonic cleaners. 🙂 I question the point of how well a £17.50 one will in fact clean a bike chain, bearing in mind that I could probably get one just as clean with a 99p bottle of white spirits, and a bit of a shake.

nickc – you obviously don’t understand the STW attitude to things – why spend £2000 on a bike when a £500 one would do quite nicely? Why spend a quid on some white spirits when you can buy a GADGET to do it? And you can do something else whilst it’s buzzing away….

Ahhh, I see where I’ve been going wrong all these years… 😀

I use one, have done for a few years. It cleans far better than any ‘manual’ technique and all it takes is a couple of button presses. More effective and easier, call me lazy but thats justification enough.

I started the first thread. They are fab. Glow blue as they vibrate, chains, headsets, bottom brackets and most of a cassette can be cleaned spotless with a press of a button whilst you crack open the post ride beer.

some people like to keep things clean, one of the benifits is they last longer

think the jury is out on that one when it comes to cleaning chains like this…

lol @ ultrasonic cleaner to clean bike bits!

Well we got there in the end 😉

Thanks daveh/wally for your comments