How do you clean Champion X plugs?
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How do you clean Champion X plugs?
How do you take apart and clean plugs like the Champion X?
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Re: How do you clean Champion X plugs?
Put the collar in a vise and turn the base with a wrench. You can derust in Evaporust and finish with a wire brush wheel. Reassembling, you have to get it tight enough to stay together but not tight enough to crack the insulator. If the electrode ends are rounded you can flatten them with a little grinder, but be careful not to take off very much material.
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Re: How do you clean Champion X plugs?
I might use a wire brush on metal spark plug parts. I would never use a wire brush on any non-metal parts of a spark plug. I would use a small, fine, single cut file to re-shape electrodes, if necessary.
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Re: How do you clean Champion X plugs?
I would never use a wire brush on any non-metal parts of a spark plug.
Yes, only on the steel parts. Never on the insulator.
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Re: How do you clean Champion X plugs?
How do you clean old staining off of the porcelain?
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Re: How do you clean Champion X plugs?
The question is, are the copper asbestos gaskets available? Has a substitute been found for the asbestos, and if so are they available?
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Re: How do you clean Champion X plugs?
The question is, are the copper asbestos gaskets available?
The link Steve Hughes and I posted shows the substitute I use. It's what I use because I've never found anything exactly like the originals.
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Re: How do you clean Champion X plugs?
Nice radio. What brand is it?
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Re: How do you clean Champion X plugs?
Just soak them in washing ammonia.
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Re: How do you clean Champion X plugs?
I tried putting a more modern 1 piece small engine spark plug in a ultra sonic cleaner,that did not work well,it apparently broke the adhesive loose or whatever keeps the porcelain tight in the metal..
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Re: How do you clean Champion X plugs?
Steve: many thanks for posting that treatise on Champion spark plugs and the differences therein. Especially the years of their introduction. I have 2 Folgers coffee cans full of ‘em so I’m going to sort out the ones I can dismantle and polish the brass tops of those I can’t 
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