Should you buy an ultrasonic cleaner?
IT SEEMS A BIT LIKE MAGIC. ACCORDING TO SHED LORE, an ultrasonic cleaner will take on the worst baked-on dried-up gunge from your bike’s parts and remove it all. So, let’s try it out. For this purpose, we used a Sealey SCT03 Ultrasonic Parts Cleaning Tank. It’s the smallest and cheapest of the Sealey range of three cleaners, stainless steel and with a capacity of three litres. There are lots of cleaners out there, some of doubtful provenance, but the Sealey seems well-made, has a bunch of features you don’t find on the cheaper items, and is covered by a warranty, which is more than you can say about something bought cheaply online. The Sealey SCT03 costs around £220.
It comes with a degas function to help improve the cleaning process. Degassing purifies the cleaning fluid and means you don’t need to use distilled water. Using ultrasonic wave vibration, the cleaning action of the microscopic bubbles created by the ultrasonic generator, known as
