“Now I’m bummed. I paid 14.95 for a 4.5 pound box this morning on eBay, plus ten bucks for shipping. It is advertised as Trisodium Phosphate. It says so on the box itself.
Now I find that it might be some thing else entirely, due to the fact some imbecile might use it to fry his brain.”
Don’t worry til you get it. Most likely you’ll get the real stuff on ebay, whereas with Ace Hardware and the like, you might not. Ebay pretty much requires honesty in advertising, and if it’s false, then it’s easy to get your money back, particularly if you used a credit card to fund the purchase, which quite frankly, is the only safe way to fund ebay purchases anyway. The credit card company is your friend when it comes to refunds.
Yep - I use a CC only for purchases online. But shipping would be my cost to return it, so it’s probably mine now.
The STTP stuff referenced above looks like another good bet. Kinda pricey, too. About 4 bucks a pound, ten pound minimum. Should last years, though. My finger is hovering over the “buy it now”.
The TSP is caustic, it’s supposed to be, but I bet the dose just needs to be dialed back is all. Maybe a quarter teaspoon per dishwasher load, plus the ersatz stuff.
As an aside, when I was a young teenager, I mistook the box of Spic-N-Span cleaner for Electrosol in the dishwasher. Woops.
If the seller has good reviews, then he’s probably selling real TSP. I wouldn’t worry!