Chempro Oxi

maxashton · Post by **maxashton** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 2:08 pm

Hi. Presumably, chempro oxi is sodium percarbonate. "Wizz oxi" ultra plus, i suspect, is the same stuff...

Wizz is available at poundland for a pound.
woo!

maxashton · Post by **maxashton** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 2:25 pm

Oxi claims to sanitize via oxygen. I believe it breaks down in water to produce peroxide, and then oxygen.
I will have to look into it, but it could be an effective sanitizer!

maxashton · Post by **maxashton** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 2:32 pm

Hm. Fair enough.
Shame, really, cause it's so cheap.

Ideally, i want to start using star-san, because i can get that (or at least a generic form of it) fairly cheap.

Post by **Andy** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 2:47 pm

want to start using star-san, because i can get that (or at least a generic form of it) fairly cheap.

Tell us more max.....

maxashton · Post by **maxashton** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 3:11 pm

Friend of the family runs a brewery.
He doesn't mind tossing a bucket of sanitizer my way, if i go by the brewery to pick it up.

maxashton · Post by **maxashton** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 3:13 pm

star san's just an acid cleaner with a foaming agent in it, isn't it?
THis is the same sort of stuff without the foaming agent.
Admittedly, it's going to lose some of its usefulness without the foaming agent, but it does the job hey.

maxashton · Post by **maxashton** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 3:20 pm

That sounds familiar.

I have heard stories of it dissolving sprayer tubes in the early days of my friend using it.

Apparently its pretty lethal if you happen to be a microbe.

Post by **Andy** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 3:23 pm

max - asked this on another thread but think you missed it - where abouts in Northants are you ? It's my "home" county you see

maxashton · Post by **maxashton** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 3:28 pm

Kettering, sir.
Kettering.
Armpit of Northamptonshire.

Post by **Andy** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 3:30 pm

Ahah!

I hail from Rushden!

steve_flack · Post by **steve_flack** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 3:32 pm

maxashton wrote: Apparently its pretty lethal if you happen to be a microbe.

It's also very nasty if you're a human in it's undiluted form. It causes nasty burns on skin, is chemically unstable, explodes if it gets too hot and slowly decomposes generating pressure in bottles. Be very very careful if you get some. Do not handle the undiluted form without gloves and face/eye protection and do not use undiluted without plenty of ventilation.

Having said that I'm getting some this weekend but I'm wary of it (and I'm a PhD qualified chemist who regularly handles much worse).

maxashton · Post by **maxashton** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 3:35 pm

Yeah, they won't give it to me in fuming. I wouldn't accept it, either. I had a near miss with some fuming hydrochloric once, and am terrified of anything in brown glass that thick since.

Respect for the PhD! Wish i'd had the academic sticking power to persue chemistry further.

maxashton · Post by **maxashton** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 3:38 pm

Andy wrote:Ahah!

I hail from Rushden!

Aha! You'll have to let me know if you're ever about and we can have a tipple somewhere.

RabMaxwell · Post by **RabMaxwell** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 1:38 am

Hello all i have got some Chempro Oxi that i am planning to use on precleaned cornies before filling. Asked if hop & grape could send some information about this new product when i ordered it. But as usual they have not a lot of information on this new product. Anyway i want to mix a couple of litres & pass from cornie to cornie. But doe's anyone now how long this stuff remains active for killing germs

steve_flack · Post by **steve_flack** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 9:28 am

Rab, I wouldn't rely on percarbonate as a sterilant myself nor is it no rinse.

FWIW PBW (which is percarbonate based) doesn't fizz.

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