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Lou Decruss[_3_] Lou Decruss[_3_] is offline
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Default bottle cleaning advice wanted

On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:25:48 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>Lou Decruss wrote:


>> CLR is advertised for cleaning coffee pots so it's probably ok. But I
>> don't think it's very powerful from my experience.

>
>
>Are you talking about the spray or the concentrate.


The concentrate.

>I buy jugs of it
>once in a while and find it to be quite powerful. I have used it for my
>coffee makers and it cleans them right out, but I have to run gallons of
>water through to get rid of the stuff. I have used it to clean the
>glass coffee pots. I add a little CLR and a bit of water and swish it
>around and the glass sparkles.
>
>I also use it to clean the heating pot on my water distiller. Again, I
>have to rinse it many times to remove the CLR. I had a greenish stain on
>the bottom of a bone wash basin in one bathroom My wife thought I had
>spilled paint in it. I put aboit an ounce of CLR in it, added a little
>water and the stain disappeared almost instantly.


I've not had our luck. I'll use lime-a-way or rust-raze.

http://www.mortonsalt.com/products/w...rust-raze.html

Lou