{"id":9266,"date":"2020-05-10T12:40:56","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T11:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/?p=9266"},"modified":"2020-05-10T12:40:57","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T11:40:57","slug":"using-a-20-lidl-ultrasonic-cleaner-on-a-bike-cassette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/using-a-20-lidl-ultrasonic-cleaner-on-a-bike-cassette\/","title":{"rendered":"Using a \u00a320 Lidl Ultrasonic Cleaner on a Bike Cassette"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cleaning a Cycle Cassette with a \u00a320 Lidl Ultrasonic Cleaner\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MvnwMdjHA8I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In my local Lidl this weekend, I noticed a stash of ultrasonic cleaners retailing at \u00a319.99 each. Usually they&#8217;d be used for things like jewellery. But I&#8217;d seen a couple of videos online with people using them to clean bike components &#8211;  particularly cassettes and chains. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I bought one, removed the cassette from my bike, and made the video above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first thing to say is that I&#8217;m not great at keeping everything sparkling. My cassette was filthy. So even running 2 x 8 minute runs had limited effect at first. The water and degreaser solution I cleaned it in turned a very murky colour, but the cassette needed some further help with an old toothbrush and some elbow grease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other issue is that this is a very <em>small<\/em> ultrasonic cleaner. It would even take the larger cogs of my cassette in one go. I had to clean that part in two goes, with half the cog submerged each time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That all said, I think it was perhaps a little easier to clean that if I&#8217;d not used it at all. And \u00a320 is very reasonable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is by not means a magic bullet to automatically clean everything, but another useful tool in your arsenal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my local Lidl this weekend, I noticed a stash of ultrasonic cleaners retailing at \u00a319.99 each. Usually they&#8217;d be used for things like jewellery. But I&#8217;d seen a couple of videos online with people using them to clean bike components &#8211; particularly cassettes and chains. So I bought one, removed the cassette from my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1011,56],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9268,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9266\/revisions\/9268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}