Steve,
 Have you talked to the Kyzen people?  I was under the impression that the Aquanox ,
although high in price, is supposed to have a very long bath life.

I can testify on the Armakleen.  I loved several things about it.  Great cleaning,
environmentally safe, and it even smelled good when we ran the washer.  However, it
didn't seem to like the hardness of our water.  These little gummy bears started
forming in the wash tank (plugging up the works) and a residue started forming on our
wave solder pallets that made them difficult to slide on the push-line (many complaints
from the hand stuffers).


Stephen R. Gregory wrote:

> Hi ya'll!
>
> Well, I'm celebrating an anniversary today...I been here at my new job a
> whole week! hehehe... It's been interesting thus far. As my boss told me on
> my first day; "Steve, you've got loads of "opportunities" here...his way of
> "sugar-coating" things if you catch my drift...hehehe.
>
> One of the opportunities I have is with this semi-aqueous cleaner we have
> here. We do both water soluable and RMA chemistries here. Water soluable for
> the class-II stuff, and RMA for the military and hi-rel stuff...that's why
> the need for the cleaner. The cleaner we have is a Electrovert
> MCS-1000...it's my first exposure to this thing, and to be perfectly honest,
> I'm not very impressed.
>
> It's basically just a fancy-smancy batch cleaner that I feel was way too
> expensive when they bought it (55K from what I understand) and costs an arm
> and a leg to run it. We run Kyzen Aquanox now (at $1500-1600 a 55-gallon
> barrel), and it seems like it goes through the stuff like I went through beer
> when I was unloading my U-Haul last week!
>
> The other engineer here said that they had been using Armakleen in it before,
> but there would be a soda bicarbonate residue that would build-up inside the
> plumbing of the machine that's pretty abrasive and would cause you to go
> through pump seals like crazy! Looking at where the pumps are located inside
> this beast, I can definately understand him when he said that replacing the
> pump seals is a job that's absolutely the pits.
>
> So I guess my question is, do any of you have one of these machines? What do
> you run in it? Is there any tips that you could pass on to this poor soul to
> make my life a little easier when dealing with this beast?
>
> As always, thanks in advance ya'll!
> (by the way, it's supposed to get up to 106-degrees here in Tulsa
> today...YOW!)
>
> -Steve Gregory-
>
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