At this point in time I think it's safe to assume my knowledge of the process is highly limited. Any help is good help.
I did notice that the tunsten prep was different for this machine but didn't really understand the difference until looking into it.
Good call on the brake clean, I hadn't been using it since this metal is "relatively" clean. With that said, I could have easily reached for it without too much of a thought. Do you have a prefered method for cleaning oily metal?