[Roadsters] cleaning carbs

[Graeme]

I have found that if you use a carb cleaner first, then it gets fairly
expensive to clean them up.
My advice is to scrub them up with a variety of brushes and a good degreaser
to a point where they look reasonable, then use a carb cleaner.
You still need to use a brush with the carb cleaner to loosen all the
ingrained crap.
In other words, use a cheap cleaner to remove the worst of the grime, then
spend some money to remove the remainder :)
I don't think any solvent used will damage the internals but you will
probably need to replace all the gaskets anyway.
Personally, I like to grit blast the cast pieces to get them really squeaky
clean.

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