Soda Crystals

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Re: Soda Crystals

Post by crafty john » Thu Jul 30, 2009 4:05 pm

forestdad wrote:Hi, another newbie here.I'm starting to use soda for cleaning and videne for sterilizing, can anyone tell me how much soda to use and whether this is a recommended method of cleaning.
I use 1 tablespoon per litre of warm water.

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Re: Soda Crystals

Post by edit1now » Sat Aug 01, 2009 10:38 am

Sounds about right.

NB you must rinse well between soda and Videne (good blast with a hose or three changes of water) otherwise the alkaline soda residues will make the Videne less effective. Videne likes to be somewhat acid - I make mine up in water at pH3 but you can just add 1 tsp of citric to a litre of tapwater.

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