That’s neat. Looks like something useful.
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I don’t see a bag around the bowl? Did you use one or just straight in there?
I wonder if using purple power would change anything.
Also glad to read Mrs F’s bong habit’s have not changed in 20 years 
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There handy used to own a tattoo shop use one of them for cleaning stuff,you can throw jewelry the lot in it I make a top for mine so I could put a solo cup in,I had an older machine so metal couldn’t
Touch the inside of the machine
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100% love that this is part of your history. Totally matches the “So I Married an Axe Murderer” hijinx that i assume happen in the back of the butchers.
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Yes is an awesome piece, more if you testing something new is awesome because can get a fresh bowl with no old BS
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I was a tattooist before I was a butcher lol owned 2 shops in Belfast ,I do have a lot of tattoos
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There was some experimenting going on but yes, the actual cleaning was done in a bag of alcohol.
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I’ve been using one for a few years. They’re also good for cleaning trim scissors! 
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Do be careful using alcohol in an ultrasonic cleaner. In the 3D printing world, people use 99% ISO to rinse off resin, and some used ultrasonic cleaners and had fires. When the alcohol was bagged they were ok. So… I’d think it has something to do with the ISO / exposure to air / fumes from the ISO.
I have a trick for cleaning glass pieces involving a shot glass and your sink. First, the bowl has to be longer than the shot glass is deep. Put bowl in shot glass so bowl side down and draw side is pointing up. Turn your hot water on in the sink, and make it scalding hot and place the glass piece so the water is going IN the draw hole. Moderate flow. You’ll see black junk float away. I then walk away for a few minutes, come back, remove from shot glass and then support it in a way that the hot water now flows into the bowl. TONS of black shit will fly out the other end.
Gets my bowls 90% clean, just a little black shit left where the water doesnt hit forcefully…
If you soak in alcohol prior for 24 hours, chances are this will 100% clean the bowl too…
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I really am interested. I’m going to try myself. Thank you very much.
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ISO and table salt is incredible at cleaning. I finish off my glass with hot water after it’s been cleaned in ISO. Obviously, the higher the concentration, the better, but back in 2020 during the great isopropyl shortage when all I could find was 70%, that still did the trick. I use a ziploc large enough to fit male and female pieces (I use a bong, but this will work on any glass). If you’re cleaning weekly, no need to let it sit. If it’s any longer, I let it sit, at least partially submerged, for 30 mins (longer for those whose glass looks like an oil filter). Shake it back and forth gradually, and in different directions. The salt acts as an abrasive to help scrub. I then blast it under hot water and 90% of the time, all the resin comes flowing out. The other 10, I have to take a nail and hit a few spots before back under the hot water again. Been cleaning glass this way for decades and it works just as well as any overpriced glass cleaner from the head shop.
Sometimes, I see people using half a bottle of ISO and tons of salt. This is unnecessary! You can manipulate the ziploc which is holding the glass to submerge your piece without needing tons of liquid, or salt. If cleaning a bong, pour a bit of both in, plug the hole for the female with a finger, and swish the alcohol and salt in the base. For the tube, throw your hand over the top and rotate from 12 to 6 and back again. Repeat several times. Works like a charm. Works even better if you change your water daily 
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You can use your ultrasonic cleaner to rapidly age white liquor too😄 get the equivalent of years of aging in a couple days, just add charred oak or other wood and white liquor and let er rip
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if youre cleaning non bong stuff a drop of dish surfactant (jet-dry) will dramatically improve your results. i used to use an industrial model to clean parts for work. we used a bit of dish soap until our rep recommended jet-dry. made a HUGE difference. only takes a drop or two
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Cool man thanks for the info.
I might just have some jetdry.
Please tell me more… You are using an ultrasonic cleaner to germinate? Or did I misunderstand?
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As a preparation for germination, basically to zap any virus that might have been on the outside.
Here’s where I started with the ultrasonic:
(there’s some good background info on cavitation)
That ‘gold standard’ turned out to be crap, I now use JohnnyPotSeed’s germination method after the ultrasonic cleaner.
The ultrasonic cleans up the outer surface and the EWC works it’s magic on the beans.
What I have found with Johnny’s method is it will get really weak beans to pop but they generally lag a couple days and those ones will almost always die.
The first bunch to pop are the keepers. 
The reason I’m concerned about the outside is information I’ve read indicates that TMV (tobacco mosaic virus) will hitch a ride on the outside but is not inside the shell.
Cheers
G
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I have been doing a lot with ultrasound lately, Ifirst started using it for making liposomal vitamins, then aging alcohol, then making tinctures, then fat cavitation,then on my colloidal silver,then on viagra, then on grain fermentation, then on my cannabis oil and edibles, then on my fertilizers and pesticides. Even before all that was experimenting with the idea of hooking it to the housepipes to keep them from freezing, rusting killing bacteria and keeping pests away as they are drawn by the moisture of the pipes and is the highest used route for crawling insects to enter. I would be a little leary of using it for preparing seed for germination. In water ultrasound creates cavitation, bubbles/pockets of air left in the wake of fast moving short waves of sound. ultrasound travels very good in solids and liquids but not so well in air and that creates heat.Some uses of ultrasound are on shipping vessels to keep the hull free of growth, sterilize water, homogenize milk, Cleaning, Reducing particle size,. Keeps viscous fluds more mobile. Creates emulsions so your oils and waters do not seperate, helps remove air from liquids and to seperate into layers some liquids,as fish finders, checking welds, for seeing inside people and breaking up stones and clots, in physical therapy to help bones heal and soothes sore muscles, , keeps rodents away from a garden when staked in the ground, I have thought it might help roots travel easier in a soil medium and stimulate growth while reducing buildup of unabsorbable matter on the rootstructure in hydro and soil. All that said I think It would do more harm than good on the cellular structure of a seed. possibly affecting the genetic makeup or damaging it to the point of not sprouting. If I did try it I would put the seeds in a porous bag and just swish it through a water-hydrogen peroxcide solution in an ultrsonic cleaner a couple of times to knock off and kill anything on the suface of the seed and double blind test letting us know how it went.I am sure ultrasound has much to show us we have not thought of yet. Something we cant even hear can have an impact in so many waysI do not often write and I am sure that most who read this will have questions. If you are persistant and not just wanting me to do all the work I may answer…
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But before doing anything wouldnt a hydrogen peroxide or colloidal silver solution work by their selves?