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>>1098020
If you're having trouble cleaning out your ceramic sharpening equipment, buy some Bar Keepers Friend. It's cheap and will make your ceramic, and some stone abrasives, like new again.

>>1098020
Cascade platinum is designed for stainless steeldish washers. It has an acid component that cleans the stainless with each use, in addition to more enzyme for cleaning the dishes.

>>1098020
But this is totally fine once you start dumping a lot of other noxious chemicals and perfumes in there. Eventually, people will equate those powerful smells with cleanliness, as opposed to the true smell of clean–nothing. Just as the old times were a pre-clean world of perfumes and powdered wigs, we are now a post-clean world. Clean is an illusion. Science was a mistake.

Holy dick trees, I knew they took the "phosphates" out of dishwasher detergent, and saw immediately it stopped working worth a shit. I see on amazon this stuff is only $3. What say you OP? Add about a teaspoon amount to the dishwasher and washing machine to get actually clean stuff again?

Protip: you can use toothpaste, and a little extra baking soda to polish up chrome and plastic headlights. Theres a few recipes to make a baking soda abbrasive which works if you put a little elbow grease into it.

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>>1098058
Compared to how well dishwasher detergent used to work, the Cascade Platinum packs might as well be nothing at all. "No pre-rinse required' is a lie. Now compare it store brand detergent powder with a shot of TSP. It's like magic.

>>1098078
I think a teaspoon would work out fine. Maybe few teaspoon for the washing machine. BTW I would buy this at Home Depot or Lowes rather than buy online, because the price is the same and the reviews on Amazon seem to complain of the product arriving as a solid brick. If you buy it in person you can ensure that water hasn't contaminated the packaging and the stuff is still in powder form.

FYI, Cascade still sells "Cascade Fryer Boil Out" (aka Cascade original formula) for the foodservice industry which still has phosphate. They sell this with a wink, since anyone in the know who actually wants their dishwasher to work worth a damn can buy this.
https://www.amazon.com/Pack-Cascade-Phosphates-Professional-Fryer/dp/B00PT0324C

Use toothpaste to remove persistant odors like bleach, gas, ect. from your hands.

Get rid of gnats with a shotglass full of vinegar with a drop of soap.
It attracts them and the soap breaks the surface tension so it sucks them in.

Remove Jar labels by spraying with pam or other thick cooking oil spray and let sit a day or two. (takes longer for glossy lables)

Get rid of earaches by blowdrying your ears (low heat) after showers or swimming. You'll know you've hit the right angle because it tickles your eardrum a bit. Aim hairdrier about 10 degrees forward and down. That came from a eye,ears,nose,throat specialist.

>>1098020
1/4 cup per run Vinegar in DW works as well, esp for fighting hard water.

>>1098020
Phosphates in detergents were used as 'builders', molecules intended for minerals dissolved in hard water to preferentially bind to instead of the surfactant which causes the surfactant to drop out of solution and form soap scum.

Protip: Stop trying so hard to be a contrarian and just soften your water.

>>1098088
Do you add the phosphate to powder or liquid dish washing detergent

>>1098121
>install thousands of dollars in unnecessary equipment
>do it chemically in the one place it actually matters for less than $100 over your lifetime

>>1098114
>toothpaste
It's also super good at getting grease from bike chains and engines off.

Maas metal polish is fantastic for getting scratches out of plastic. I use it for cleaning up my watch's case and body, and for all my old electronics.

Stripping thick cable by wrapping it around your finger and rolling it against a knife works much easier than using strippers.

Old Powermac G4s can be overclocked by poking resistors off the CPU and mainboard.

>>1098042
I need this. Ajax used to be abrasive and I used it to clean my ceramic sharpening steel.
Thanks!

>>1098114
You can remove any label by applying heat from a hair drier or hot water. It's much faster.

>>1098270
Stops soap scum everywhere soap is used, more importantly stops scale in hot water equipment and pipes which is a real pain long term. You can also use sodium carbonate as a builder, you don't have to be an edgetard and use phosphates just because it makes the greenies mad or whatever the fuck. It doesn't magically repel dirt from clothes it just stops the surfactant dropping out of solution.

>>1098353
Actually, trisodium phosphate is a strongly basic degreaser in its own right in addition to being the best releasing agent, which is why it's still used as a general purpose cleaner in many industries. You are dumb to think you can match the performance of the old detergents by softening your water.

Removing it from home products was a catastrophe because the phaseout didn't do shit about algae blooms. If we really want to get serious about the issue, we basically need to rethink how we grow food and everything else is secondary to the fact.

>>1098020
>Algae loves phosphate though, so some misguided tree huggers convinced lawmakers that banning phosphate from detergents would result in positive effects for health of the nation's streams, lakes and ponds (it didn't).
I live here by the Baltic, in the middle of the Archipelago Sea and boy do we have algae in the summer. I can tell you, I want everything that helps, as the situation is shit right now! I could write a long rant about this as I'm a half-time marine biologist and field researcher.

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>>1098353
I have such hard water that it's now forming a calcium build up in the bowl, and cleaners seem to only dye the calcium deposits. Would this phosphates stuff get rid of it or should i try vinegar again?

>>1098928
algae bloom in the spring is normal and a natural product of animals begining to poop again.

>>1098114
>gnats

You mean fruit flies, dumbass.

>>1098932
That sounds like a job for CLR.

>>1101192
There are two blooms in the baltic. The first is the diatom bloom that happens during the spring. This starts before the ice cover is gone and lasts for a while. I can't recall what is the limiting factor for the diatoms but I believe it is N.
The second bloom happens in the summer when cyanobacteria blooms and is the one I'm talking about. Cyanobacteria, unlike diatoms, can use the nitrogen in the atmosphere and therefore are limited only by the phosphorous in the sea, and there is surely enough of that! The real limiting factor for cyanobacteria is the weather and if it is warm and no wind the seawater will turn into a smelly goop that might be poisonous. Yeah, some cyanobacteria make poisons that can in an extreme case kill one that drinks the water. Might cause irritation to the skin if you swim in it. Eutrophication is NOT cool.
This added murkiness has severely damages the most important algae, Fucus vesiculosus severely as it is growing more shallow as the turbidity has risen. And shallower means more damage to the algae during the winter as ice shapes it off the rocks. Also the huge amounts of filamentous algae severely impairs the ability of other algae to colonise a spot. When the filamentous algae is being ripped of the rocks it runs down to the bottom and gets broken down. But there is too much of it which leads to oxygen depletion which again leads to phosphorous being released even MORE from the sediment. It's called internal phosphorus loading and it's a fucked up vicious cycle!
So all I can say is, don't put phosphorous in the baltic. It's a shallow and sensitive sea with harsh conditions as it has brackish water. If you are a Russian or Polack or other third world ex-commie shithole dweller then please consider the baltic when you go on your next regular environmental destroying spree!

>>1098114
>Get rid of gnats with a shotglass full of vinegar with a drop of soap.
I just tried this and it fucking sucked ass, gnats be all over my apartment but not in the vinegar fuck you cunt i'm getting eaten up in this bitch

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>>1102093
Google: diy fly paper

Or just buy some for less than the cost of materials.

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>>1102093
See attached. I used white wine for mine and it worked great. They go down into the hole and are too fucking stupid to get out.

>>1102242
j-j-jam it in?

>>1102249
Stop it. You're better than that.

>>1102073
how do you know so much about algae. i'm just a burger with a koi pond. i battle algae in koi pond with oxygen, filtration and sometimes a UV light but I'm still not sure I'm a believer in UV.


as a real american burger i had to google to find the baltic sea because the geography impairment is real. I'm going out on a limb and guessing its all those big ass cruise ships in that tiny sea doing the polluting and not detergent.

>>1102266
Remember: /diy/ is still 4chan

>>1102271
It's actually fertilizer runoff and soap scum.

Jesus fuck does it kill you to open a book? These same issues exist here as well.

>>1102073
Pole here. Are you another pretentious Nordic eco-warrior? I will much phosphate in my garden just for you baby ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I have two that are admittedly kinda basic.

>if you strip a screwhead and there's enough of it protruding, you can chuck the screw directly into the drill and back it out that way.

>With a little sewing, pant legs make good /diy/ tool rolls.
I made my tool roll in about six hours all told, but I don't have a sewing machine and don't really know what I'm doing, so it should take someone who does much less time.

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You can safely consume 4 oz of dextromethorphan (DXM, Robitussin) that DOES NOT CONTAIN GUAIFENESIN and experience a robotrip.

They sell Robitussin without guaifenesin at Walgreens/CVS. Buy only one so you don't look suspicious. Buying tissues with it is a good idea.

You will experience nausea, but also a very focused state of mind that is similar to being reverse drunk.