Sirocco Jerry
Active member
I found a NON-toxic NON hazardous acid-powder, that removes
rust and red-dirt stains as good as Sulfamic, or Oxalic acids.
It can be shipped with NO special lable or other than standard freight charges.
I have been using it to descale heater-coils (quite successfully)
for over 25 years.. It won't hurt your pump, but it LOVES the rust !
Recently..
I used it on a greasy-oily gnarly nightmare disaster in my own side yard..
An old can of "heavily used" carb-cleaner-dip had beed spilled several days before..
even the smell came out !!
It's the first time I have seen an acid work past an oily-mix stain,
and it did NOT bleach the concrete !
It is a blend of Citric Acid.. that's right, the same acid as in soda pop !
What a lifesaver !!.. That carb-cleaner had spilled into my neighbor's walkway, and 30 feet down his driveway !!
The incident was also a great demo of EnviroFriendly cleaning too..
We sprayed a citrus-based degreaser on it (only diluting it 1:1 with water to minimize liquid-volume).
..that worked great to penetrate, break down the oils,
and help kill the horrible smell.
Then we sopped-up the spill with old newspapers..
That's recycling, and concentrates the "hazardous part" into soild-form
for cheeper handling.
Then, the final rinse with hot H.P. almost took ALL the of stain away !
Containment was a cheep shop-vac with a VacuBerm (of course).
:nhl_checking:
By the way..
As you're looking at that sodapop lable..
you might be shocked to see some have Phosphoric Acid instead of Citric ! ..
STOP buying those ! and STOP letting your kids drink that crap..
Osteoperosis is common enough. Eh?
rust and red-dirt stains as good as Sulfamic, or Oxalic acids.
It can be shipped with NO special lable or other than standard freight charges.
I have been using it to descale heater-coils (quite successfully)
for over 25 years.. It won't hurt your pump, but it LOVES the rust !
Recently..
I used it on a greasy-oily gnarly nightmare disaster in my own side yard..
An old can of "heavily used" carb-cleaner-dip had beed spilled several days before..
even the smell came out !!
It's the first time I have seen an acid work past an oily-mix stain,
and it did NOT bleach the concrete !
It is a blend of Citric Acid.. that's right, the same acid as in soda pop !
What a lifesaver !!.. That carb-cleaner had spilled into my neighbor's walkway, and 30 feet down his driveway !!
The incident was also a great demo of EnviroFriendly cleaning too..
We sprayed a citrus-based degreaser on it (only diluting it 1:1 with water to minimize liquid-volume).
..that worked great to penetrate, break down the oils,
and help kill the horrible smell.
Then we sopped-up the spill with old newspapers..
That's recycling, and concentrates the "hazardous part" into soild-form
for cheeper handling.
Then, the final rinse with hot H.P. almost took ALL the of stain away !
Containment was a cheep shop-vac with a VacuBerm (of course).
:nhl_checking:
By the way..
As you're looking at that sodapop lable..
you might be shocked to see some have Phosphoric Acid instead of Citric ! ..
STOP buying those ! and STOP letting your kids drink that crap..
Osteoperosis is common enough. Eh?