GLASSHOPPER55
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When you immerse the bottle in the mix, fill it inside also and stand it up then pour more mix around it (in a tall container) and cover it. I use a stiff bottle brush inside the bottle. If the gunk is still sticking, immerse longer in the mix. When done, pour the used mix back into your mix bottle-it will turn brown but it is reusable over and over.
Yes lye can burn you so use rubber gloves and don't breath it (or any mix). Better to be safe. Lye is used widely by soap makers. It's also in oven cleaners (see "sodium hydroxide on labels). It's still much less nasty than muriatic, which left to open air will rust/corrode shiny metal in the room it's in.
Yes lye can burn you so use rubber gloves and don't breath it (or any mix). Better to be safe. Lye is used widely by soap makers. It's also in oven cleaners (see "sodium hydroxide on labels). It's still much less nasty than muriatic, which left to open air will rust/corrode shiny metal in the room it's in.
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