How To Clean Calcium Build Up Off Food Steamer

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Like the championship says,
What is the best style to make clean out forty years of white calcium build up out of a radiator? I figure now is the perfect time to do it as the radiator is out of the car, and then I can lay it flat and fill it and allow information technology soak. I bought a bottle of CLR thinking information technology would be perfect, only to read on the dorsum of the canteen not to use it on coper or brass. Any one know a good trick to do it? I would accept it to a radiator shop to take information technology boiled out bu there is no longer whatsoever in my surface area.
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Not to run tap water to begin with. Run distilled water like what's supposed to exist used. You'll never take calcium buildup if you never introduce calcium in the organisation.
That said, I have had GREAT luck draining the organisation, refilling it with water (you CAN use tap water for this) and adding a WHOLE bottle of CLR and driving it a few days. CLR:

http://www.uline.com/BL_7097/CLR-Ca...utm_term=clr&utm_campaign=Janitorial Supplies

You don't need a gallon. Just get whatever Wally World has. That will be enough.
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I'm going to endeavour that on the Ram. Runs absurd enough, but heater cadre is partially plugged, and Peak affluent didn't fix information technology completely (although helped). Yeah I'll probably need a heater core, but would rather spend the time working on the Duster.
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I utilise automatic dishwasher lather but information technology has to be liquid, not crystals. Pour 12 oz.'s in with clean tap water and drive it around town for as long as you can.
Plain white vinegar is adept but can take a while. It won't damage annihilation and but smells funny. I would try a radiator affluent equally well. 40 years is a long fourth dimension you might have to get the radiator cleaned at a store that tin mechanically "rod" the radiator out.
Good luck.
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CLR: Calcium, Lime, Rust remover.
X2 Since the radiator is out of the auto and you can let information technology soak, the vinegar will practice its job without harming the copper. You lot may accept to bleed and refill with vinegar once or twice depending on the amount of calcium carbonate build-up.
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Thanks every one.
I e'er use distiled water my cocky. But tin can not modify what some one else did for 40 years to this pore matter.

I bought the CLR the other day, only read on the bottle not to apply on coper or brass. So I was a lilliputian scared to use it.

And I thought about using the vinegar, but then I read that information technology dissolves pb.

And as I stated in a higher place there is no radiator shops around hear whatever more. The final one closed downwards a year agone.

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Get radiator cleaner from a tractor/farm supply shop if you accept whatever of those effectually. It is stronger than the commercial automotive variety. There was a thread about this years ago on slant 6.org with lots of suggestions.
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Hay thanks! I will attempt that. I tried the CLR only I diluted it a little more than that fifty 50. Do not call up information technology did much
You lot e'er put a craven bone in a bowl of vinegar? After a day it turns to "safety". I've never really had CLR piece of work on anything I tried it on. Their warning about brass/copper is probably related to discoloration.
If the radiator is out, connect an old cycle inner tube between the inlet and outlet to seal and so fill information technology with straight vinegar. Won't hurt anything merely if there's calcium inside, it'll dissolve information technology. Let information technology sit for a day or two.

(Hydrogen Peroxide combined with vinegar purportedly dissolves atomic number 82).
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How long did you use it? I wouldda left information technology in virtually a calendar week.
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Well-nigh ii days. I was a weeny and worried nearly it with the warning on the bottle. I know I am a craven. LOL
I may accept to try the vinegar, just i read on line that it tin can dissolve lead. May non be true. Who knows
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I've been meaning to try the CLR stuff, simply haven't yet. What I have used is a product chosen Tub and Sink Jelly. It's in mayhap an 8 ounce bottle, and like the characterization says, is a jelly. I mix ii bottles with a gallon of hot water, and with the inlet and outlet of the radiator blocked, (I stretch an inner tube over the necks, and put on a band clench to seal), I pour it in, supercede the cap, and tip the radiator dorsum and forth, upside down, etc to circulate it. Within a minute or then you volition hear a clinking dissonance, and that is the calcium chunks coming loose. I exercise it virtually 5 minutes, and rinse it out well. The few I've done look like a new penny inside. Distilled water only afterwards.
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Toyota forum used puddle acid, lay it on its dorsum, pool acid in, wait a few and dump it in some dirt, not on your driveway. Dont know if information technology works or not, any chemists here? I like that tub and sink jelly but nosotros probably deceit get information technology out here in CA. (y'all know, because information technology WORKS!)
Where do you go distiller water?
I take never seen it at the auto parts stores...maybe I'm blind.
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Any grocery in the drink - water section. I utilize to get it for toping the h2o off in Ni-cad batteries. Ans diluting antifreeze.
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Naw, you simply didn't know. You can get out it in a while when it'southward diluted that much. It won't injure annihilation.
X2 get a bottle put it in and bulldoze information technology for a week or two I have run it for a summer so have the acme rad hose off (afterwards you lot take the thermostat Out) stick a water hose in it and back affluent tell clean.your entire cooling organisation will be as skillful equally new..this was told to me by a rad shop back in the 60s...............Artie
you can also purchase the premix antifreeze that yous dont add h2o to...
works just as good as the other blazon plus distilled water
Well, I am a chemist. Pool acid is hydrochloric acid. It is a potent acid and reacts chop-chop to dissolve the calcium carbonate. Information technology volition also dissolve copper and could damage the radiator if it is left within for too long. Disposal of muriatic acid is a trouble. That is why I did not recommend its use in my previous reply.
Vinegar is acetic acrid and is called a "weak" acid. It reacts more slowly than puddle acrid and will deliquesce the calcium carbonate without aggressively attacking the copper. It will likewise rinse clean with less h2o than hydrochloric acid and information technology tin can be disposed of in the sewer system.
ya I'd like to exist at that place to see that.:wack:skillful luck...........Artie
The next opportunity to run the motorcar for an extended period volition be the two hour trip to and from Carlisle on both July six & 7.
If I go with vinegar, do I utilise household vinegar and what ratio should I mix it at?
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