Cleaning the swivel spool connection?

[Jonno]

For the service techs. When servicing regulators what do you find the best method of cleaning the pressure gauge where it connects to the swivel spool?

My cleaning methods are as follows. Plastics soap and water rinse and dry, metal parts go into the US bath with biox, hose ends soaked in a jar of biox then drained and hung up to dry and at the moment I sit the gauge in a ring spanner to keep it upright and soak the thread and where the spool goes in biox. The latter I am sure could be done better and more securely. Any suggestions, thanks in advance.

 

[Dsix36]

Support the gauge upright and soak the threads in white vinegar and rinse with simple green. Just the way I do it. Sometimes a q-tip helps the process a bit.

 

[halocline]

For the service techs. When servicing regulators what do you find the best method of cleaning the pressure gauge where it connects to the swivel spool?

My cleaning methods are as follows. Plastics soap and water rinse and dry, metal parts go into the US bath with biox, hose ends soaked in a jar of biox then drained and hung up to dry and at the moment I sit the gauge in a ring spanner to keep it upright and soak the thread and where the spool goes in biox. The latter I am sure could be done better and more securely. Any suggestions, thanks in advance.

The only thing that comes to mind might be an inverted paper cup. You could cut the cup short so that it's just the right height, then punch a hole in the bottom so that the gauge face sits on top of the inverted cup while the threads are underneath in the solution.