[Jewelry making - Article 00271] - Re: [Orchid] Safer pickles

[Peter W . Rowe]

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>        You might like to give Ph Minus a try. It's used in swimming
>     pools & spas to lower the ph of the water & keep your skin from
>     itching. Chemically it's sodium bisulfate. It works well when mixed
>     at about 1 cup to 2 quarts of water that's then warmed in a crock
>     pot or some other glass or ceramic container. 

    Note that this is not safer than Sparex brand, just a perhaps better
    way to buy the same chemical.  The products like "Ph Minus", or "ph
    down", or "Spa down", are all sodium bisulphate, as is Sparex.   But
    packaged as a pool chemical like this, it seems to be usually quite
    pure and clean, with usually just some intentional inert anti-caking
    additives,  while Sparex seems to often be a somewhat lower grade of
    the chemical with impurities in it (some sort of waxy brown gunk)
    that makes more of a mess of pickle pots, and at least at my local
    dealers, the spa chemicals, in addition to mixing up cleanly, are
    actually cheaper than the Sparex brand product.   I buy the pool
    chemical at the local hardware store.  Home Depot carries one
    version, for example, often located over in the garden department... 

Peter


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