I have some dry wetsanding residue from primer. It's in some tight cracks (that are visible) and I'm having a hard time cleaning it out. Any ideas? My toothbrush is just too wide.

get your self a plastic bottle sprayer put water in it get up close and see if you can blast it out some times what i do and i no you guys wont agree with it put water in your spray gun put it on shoot and blast it out make sure you dry it out thoroughly

Get some various (cheap) nylon paint brushes from Home Depot.
They also work great for cleaning wheels, engines, jambs and other
tight spots.

"Dawn",,dont forget her.................

I highly recommend this guys brushes

http://www.machinerycleanery.com/

They are expensive, but they work. Infact given you can snip the brushes outer casing away to expose more brittles they are about 10brushes in one. You want a nylon brush for this sort of cleaning. Every brush is handmade.

His stainless steel brushes are brilliant. Gasket housiings, alluminium housings, gasket faces, switch contacts, I find I use them all the time

I wish I could afford to buy a full set of them

seeya,
Shane L.

Shane, those are fairly easy to make. I've used those brass tubes before
as handles for custom sculpting tools. Adding nylon/steel bristles should
be very simple to do. His stuff is very spendy but more power to him!

Yep,

you however will not find his stainless wire anywhere. I think it's old stock from decades ago. A lot of people have claimed they would be easy to make... I don't know of anyone that's been sucesful yet. How will you tightly load the bristles in there ?? And if you manage to, how will you keep them there ??

Sounds simple and easy to do in theory, but in practice is apparantly very difficult. I'd love to see him make a brush to see how he's actually managed to do it.

I only have one each of the nylon and stainless brushes (I'm not one for cleaning ... and dont' own a motorbike). Yet I find I use it constantly. Alloy gasket housings are where you find there worth there weight in gold. You can clean the old gaskets off without scratching up the alloy surface.

seeya,
Shane L.

Good question. Not knocking the guy at all.

"Bristles are fixed at the base and lie freely within the tubular brass handle"



To get a better idea on how, and why, i'd purchase one and cut it.
I'll take a wild guess and say he's using glue of some sort; obviously
something very strong. Two part epoxy based panel bonding adhesive
comes to mind. It's what i'd likely use. OK, so now i have fairly good
guess here but where would i get the bristles? I'm sure with some
research, i'd find a source. I'd ask a few machinist friends. Find a company
that uses stainless steel (and nylon) bristles and do some digging as
to their source.

Quick Google search:

http://www.brushescorp.com/index2.htm

Knowing his background, would help a lot too.

BUT, i really don't have an interest in making these. So it stops here.