Posted on 01/08/2017 9:18:48 PM PST by Lorianne
Your belief needs to go back to chemistry class.
TSP stands for Tri-Sodium-Phosphate. There is no chlorine in it.
We just replaced a burner in our 1956 stove—the only repair so far. The downside, we broke the glass frontpiece. :(
'Bet I can find a replacement on eBay! :)
BFLR
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Once I had occasion to use an old Soviet toilet. After I finished my business, I hit the handle. People, I am not exaggerating, something like 300 gallons of the Dneiper river shot though it in something like 4 seconds.
It went off with a roar.
It felt like I had torched off a Martin-Baker rocket ejection seat. For a horrifying second, I wondered if it could suck my butt downwards.
I don’t know if some engineer was threatened with the gulags if anyone ever had to flush twice or what. But that was the most astounding flush toilet I’ve ever used.
You’re right. My mistake comes from comparing Oxi-Clean versus Oxyclean, not TSP. Oxyclean is a chlorinated cleaner and is not the one I’m recommending. Both TSP and Oxi-Clean have no chlorine. I haven’t taken chemistry classes in decades. The old mind is rusty.
“Phosphates were taken out because of algal blooms and resulting dead zones.”
Bullcrap. Its nothing but feel good crap. They ban it in dishwashers, but 99% of it comes from commercially used fertilizers that still use it. Every so called “dead zone” is downstream from massive farming areas.
This is just more “in your face” crap.
Yes these things do matter but are necessarily the major contributors to water pressure.
The main impact on water pressure for most urban dwellers is the height of the water tank that supplies your area, the distance your house is from the tank and how many users there are between your home and the water tank.
Many older neighborhoods have seen water pressure drop as more homes have been built in the neighborhood. More people drawing from a main that was sized to service far fewer homes lowers water pressure.
FWIW
The skid marks are pain free now.
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In Ca,you can’t find a dryer which can dry cloth.
I don’t remember the brand name of the horrible washer, but it was some company that makes cell phones and TV’s.
Washers should be made by companies that make tanks or cement mixers.
Speed Queen has the added advantage of being USA built. They primarily make commercial and institutional machines, but their consumer models are just as strong.
If you can find a “real one”, go to the local Hardware Store and ask for help. Most have been solving the government induced problems for 30+ years.
They however cannot sell you a simple Edison (incadescent) Light bulb. You’ll have to buy a quartz one at 4X the price in order to be able to read by it.
ComDem Insanity.
Druggies were using TSP in a formula for some street drug.
So they outlawed TSP. The substitute really sucks. That is why the old reliable dishwasher detergent quit working.
ComDem Insanity.
LMAO you made my day.
Thanks.
Still have one central AC that was installed in 1964.
As a mechanical engineer, it seems that equipment built before ~1970 was made to last forever with a few repairs. I still often find buildings with all-original systems from those years.
Average quality has slowly declined since then. Since the 90s, absolutely everything is throwaway junk. It falls apart just after the warranty ends.
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