muriatic acid, OK for carb soaking?

Working in a bike shop for 15 years, I used muriatic acid to disolve metal-transferred aluminum off cylinderwalls of two-cycle engines, so we could prep and reuse them with new standard bore pistons, as some of those cylinders were not re-sizeable. And yes the fumes released by this procedure burned my nose out a few times, and easily softened my finger prints, such that, had I wanted to, it would have been easy to remove them .....

Decent carb-cleaners seem to be a thing of the past. I still have a well-used gallon-jug of the good stuff from the 90s, but IDK, it's had a hard life..... Every time I use it, it loses potency.