How to mix cleaning fluid - what ratio?
Bill Pilkington
Last Update 13 days ago

NOTE: This cleaning fluid is NOT for using as an a additive to petrol or a petrol tank. It is for use in an ultrasonic cleaner.
Fluids purchased from us have the mixing ratio displayed on the label. Normally this mix is around 10:1. We do also offer a super concentrate with a ratio of 40:1.
It might sound simple calculating the correct amount of ultrasonic cleaning fluid to mix with water, but it’s an important aspect of the ultrasonic cleaning process and worth a few lines explaining how to get it right.
The carburettor cleaning solution is a concentrated solution and needs to be diluted (mixed) with water in a ratio of 10:1. That means for every ten parts of water, you need to add 1 part of concentrated solution. Applying that formula into the real world we need to know how many glugs of fluid to add to an ultrasonic tank and that of course will vary with the tank size.
If you are cleaning a carburettor that is very dirty, you can decrease the ratio to 8:1 (8 parts water to 1 part cleaning solution)
Let’s look at different size ultrasonic tanks and calculate how much cleaning solution to mix with water for each size of tank
3 Litre ultrasonic tank.
3 litre = 3,000 ml. Mixing the fluid at 10:1 means you need 300 ml of cleaning fluid. The easiest way to measure 300 ml is you use a normal coffee mug. A coffee mug holds 300 ml. Perfect! Add one full mug of carburettor cleaning fluid to your 3 Ltr ultrasonic cleaner and then fill the tank with water to the fill line which is about 20 mm from the top of the tank.
6 litre ultrasonic tank.
6 litre = 6,000 ml. Mixing the carburettor cleaning fluid at 10:1 ratio means that you need 600 ml of cleaning fluid. A coffee mug holds 300 ml. Add 2 x mugs of carburettor cleaning fluid to your 6 Ltr ultrasonic cleaner and then fill the tank with water up to the fill line which is about 20 mm from the top of the tank.
9 or 10 litre ultrasonic tank
9 litre = 9,000 ml. Mixing the fluid at 10:1 means that you need 900 ml of cleaning fluid. A coffee mug holds 300 ml. Add 3 x mugs of carburettor cleaning fluid to your 9 Ltr ultrasonic cleaner and then fill the tank with water up to the fill line which is about 20 mm from the top of the tank.
20 (22) litre ultrasonic tank
20 litre = 20,000 ml. Mixing the fluid at 10:1 means that you need 2000 ml of cleaning fluid. A coffee mug holds 300 ml. Add 6.5 x mugs of carburettor cleaning fluid to your 20 Ltr ultrasonic cleaner and then fill the tank with water up to the fill line which is about 20 mm from the top of the tank.
Its not vital that the mixture is deadly accurate and if you have a heavily soiled carb, you might want to add an extra half a mug of cleaning fluid to a smaller ultrasonic cleaner (3 & 6 litre) and another couple of mugs full to a 20 litre machine.