Foaming in watch cleaning solutions

[dibs1]

Hi all, 

I have one of those pearl cleaning machines and struggle with foaming in the solutions which leads to lower quality cleans as the solution doesn’t pass over the parts instead foamy air does. Wondering if anyone has any experience reducing the foam

[JohnR725]

What solutions are you using and how fast you're rotating the thing?

[dibs1]

9 hours ago, JohnR725 said:

What solutions are you using and how fast you're rotating the thing?

using a Zenith non-ammonia concentrate solution 

[JohnR725]

3 hours ago, dibs1 said:

Zenith non-ammonia concentrate solution 

Looks like Zenith makes several products with similar sounding names the first one is not for cleaning watch parts is for cleaning bands and stuff it'd been polished so I'm guessing that's not what were talking about

I notice there's not a lot of information out there on this but my guess is it's a soap-based product. It would be really nice if we had a material safety sheets to verify but I'm guessing because it's water-based uses soap and soap has a habit of foaming. It may have been it was never designed to run in a machine like you're using the best thing would be to contact the manufacturer and see what they have the say. 

https://www.jewelerssupplies.com/zenith-z-88-non-ammoniated-concentrate-230.0253G.html

https://www.merritts.com/merritts/public/product.aspx?ProductID=88708

 

[dibs1]

4 hours ago, JohnR725 said:

Looks like Zenith makes several products with similar sounding names the first one is not for cleaning watch parts is for cleaning bands and stuff it'd been polished so I'm guessing that's not what were talking about

I notice there's not a lot of information out there on this but my guess is it's a soap-based product. It would be really nice if we had a material safety sheets to verify but I'm guessing because it's water-based uses soap and soap has a habit of foaming. It may have been it was never designed to run in a machine like you're using the best thing would be to contact the manufacturer and see what they have the say. 

https://www.jewelerssupplies.com/zenith-z-88-non-ammoniated-concentrate-230.0253G.html

https://www.merritts.com/merritts/public/product.aspx?ProductID=88708

 

Very interesting take on the subject didn’t even think of that. Will definitely reach out to them for some more information.