How to get your dishwasher back (Make phosphate detergent) Vanity

Self | 2/13/2011 | self

[mad_as_he$$]

Yes.

http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=tsp+cleaner&tag=mh0b-20&index=aps&hvadid=33741513&ref=pd_sl_8r5t7ayp2j_b

[Vor Lady]

An FYI ping.

[Daffynition]

;-D

[ReverendJames]

You’re welcome. Our water is glacial. It comes from the Olympic Mountains behind us. Our well is 260’ down and our static level is 90’. The stuff is as pure as you can get and very sweet tasting. We could bottle and sell the stuff. There’s no calcium buildup on faucets or anything. Just that little bit of iron which is not really a problem.

[Downsouth55]

About ten years ago I had an obnoxious neighbor that built a fountain in his front yard. The damn thing made enough noise to wake the dead. My friend owns a commercial chemical company that mixes soaps and solvents for commercial use. He mixed me a very high phosphate soap that made unbelivable amounts of foam. I put a baby food jar full of it in fountain about midnight and the nest morning his yard was full of foam and I mean the whole yard. It took him two days to get the fountain to stop foaming. One more treatment and he filled it in.

[the_devils_advocate_666]

ping for later reference

[meowmeow]

bfl

[meowmeow]

bfl

[urtax$@work]

lead in bullets, lead in shot, lead in fishin sinkers, lead in fishin lures, monofilament fishing line, copolymer fishin line.

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got my saved lead (dukNgeese really are a little easier with lead), and linen line good to go !

[GoldwaterChick]

I have been having trouble with my cologne (Nina Ricci).

I’ve tossed many half full bottles out because of lack of scent.

What do we look for,or avoid?

I thought it was me.

And I thought it was me! L’Air du Temps? My favorite. Haven’t bought it in years. Even tried it in out-of-the country duty shop—didn’t even smell the same and didn’t last. Been wondering about his for a long time!

[kalee]

Don’t let a cellist hear you say that. ;)

[FourPeas]

I’ve been using Borax until I can restock on TSP. You’re right. It’s great stuff.

[Nickname]

If you have water with alot of minerals in it, the removal of phosphates causes a problem - a white layer of soap/mineral scum is welded to the dishes.

. . .

That’s exactly what we ran into. My flatware and glasses were covered in a haze.

Adding a bit of TSP with each load has fixed it.

[Nickname]

When TSP is outlawed, only outlaws will have TSP.

See you in the gulag.

[Palladin]

Bookmarking this thread.

Got a heads-up on the lack-of-phosphate problem from Mona Charen, in one of her recent columns.

Glad to find that FReepers know how to solve the problem!

[logician2u]

As background:

Another Triumph for the Greens

[Palladin]

Gee, I thought I was losing my sense of smell! None of my favorite fragrances are the same anymore.

What will these environazis think of next?

[urtax$@work]

environmentalist movement is all about - making life harder for ordinary people

Good bumper sticker

[urtax$@work]

no discoloration of flatware?? i found using strong mixture of TSP for paint jobs to discolor metal pails, etc.

I guess all in the strength.....?! i will experiment with low dose mixtures first.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

I add a pinch to dishwasher loads as well the sink when I wash some things by hand. The only thing I do not add it too is my front loader washing machine because it is new. Don't know if it will mess it up.

I first read of it here on FR and it was as if an INCANDESCENT light bulb came on. Ah-HA!!! So that's why nothing is getting clean...