cleaning plastic pin after infection

[paulg]

I have a plastic pin that when I tapped it the beer tasted off ,Im guessing a lacto infection.So I have hot washed it and starsanned for 24 hours.
I plan to soak it in bleach and then use camden tablets but dont know the ratios for bleach /water 10% ?
and hot or cold water with how many camden tablets? for how long
thanks

[Jim]

The ratio depends on the brand of bleach you have - they have different proportions of the active ingredient (sodium hypochlorite). Some (like domestos) have the % written on the bottle, and somewhere near 5% would be excellent stuff - if it's a lot less (some are as low as 2% or less) you need to use more bleach to water.

Graham Wheeler recommends 1 part bleach to 19 parts water for heavily contaminated equipment (for 5% sodium hypochlorite bleach), so I would go for that. If you're using unknown brand bleach, you could quadruple the quantity of bleach to be on the safe side.

In your location, you're always going to be fighting infections unfortunately.

[IPA]

I have a plastic pin that when I tapped it the beer tasted off ,Im guessing a lacto infection.So I have hot washed it and starsanned for 24 hours.
I plan to soak it in bleach and then use camden tablets but dont know the ratios for bleach /water 10% ?
and hot or cold water with how many camden tablets? for how long
thanks

Almost certainly,where you live, there is a swimming pool shop. Go and buy a tub of Calcium Hypochlorite. It's 65% unstabilised chlorine. One teaspoon in 25 litres left overnight will do the trick. Your vessel will be sanitised and sparkling clean. Just remember to rinse thoroughly.

[floydmeddler]

I don't use chemicals any more. I use a wallpaper steamer. Highly recommend it!