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Originally Posted by leebca  The cleaning process goes like this: 1. Rinse it all off with tap water; 2. Wash out with a sponge soaked in vinegar (use gloves) or rinse out equipment with straight vinegar (see below); 3. Rinse with a lot of tap water to remove vinegar; 4. Repeat 2. but using a mild soap (see below); 5. Rinse with a lot of tap water to remove all traces of soap; 6. Rinse with store bought bleach (see below) diluted 1:10; 7. Rinse with a lot of tap water; 8. Repeat 7 two more times! 9. Rinse with RO/DI or distilled water; 10. Let go dry. The vinegar is the least expensive you can buy. Usually apple-cider vinegar. You want to use a vinegar without additives -- a pure vinegar. The mild soap to use is one that has the least perfume, no ammonia, and is a liquid. Some dish soaps don't fit this category, so I can't tell you to use dish soap. But there are some soaps that do meet these requirements. I usually use Ivory liquid hand soap, but there are others. The bleach is a household bleach without additives or scents added. Take a cup of that and add 9 cups of tap water to that to make the 1:10 dilution. I can't over emphasize the need to rinse a lot. Good luck!  |
That is a good thought however I would NEVER recommend soap of any kind Vinegar & Bleach do the trick by themselves. However with the bleach I would suggest a DeChlorinator to kill the bleach this is the process Wholesalers use to kill bacteria fungus etc in their tanks. JMO