Threw $600 at a used injector cleaner machine and it paid for itself in a month

Picked up a beat-up ultrasonic cleaner off Craigslist from a shop in Akron that was closing down. Ran a set of crusty HEUI injectors through it and got them working like new instead of spending $4k on replacements. Anybody else grab secondhand shop gear that actually worked out?

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wood.uma9d agoMost Upvoted

Hate to be the wet blanket here, but @quinn161 I feel like buying used shop gear is a total gamble that usually doesn't pay off. That ultrasonic cleaner might work now, but you're one busted transducer away from it being a paperweight, and parts for those old machines can be hard to find.

young.thomas8d ago

That's fair but I think you might be mixing up ultrasonic cleaner failures with transducer replacements. Most of those old units use standard piezoelectric discs that are super common online for like $10. The real headache is usually the circuit board or the timer relay going bad. Have you actually tried fixing one before or is this more of a general rule you're going off?

quinn1619d ago

Man I love hearing stories like this! I grabbed a used tire balancer off Facebook Marketplace for $200 and it was dead on accurate even though the original owner said it had been sitting in his barn for two years. Sometimes the beat up stuff just keeps on working if you give it a little TLC.