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  • Re: Washing machine - how to remove hardened soap powder?

    From netonic@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 26 23:30:04 2025
    caustic soda will get rid of anything.

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  • From Vir Campestris@21:1/5 to netonic on Fri Jan 31 13:58:50 2025
    On 26/01/2025 23:30, netonic wrote:
    caustic soda will get rid of anything.

    I looked up the history of this one.

    It turns out Bob Eager asked the original question. 18 years ago. And
    someone from HoH woke it up again 10 years after that...

    Is 18 years an HoH record?

    Incidentally caustic soda won't get rid of everything. Sometimes you
    need some sort of acid - scale is the best example - and some things
    neither will touch.

    Andy

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  • From Bob Eager@21:1/5 to Vir Campestris on Fri Jan 31 18:07:53 2025
    On Fri, 31 Jan 2025 13:58:50 +0000, Vir Campestris wrote:

    On 26/01/2025 23:30, netonic wrote:
    caustic soda will get rid of anything.

    I looked up the history of this one.

    It turns out Bob Eager asked the original question. 18 years ago. And
    someone from HoH woke it up again 10 years after that...

    Is 18 years an HoH record?

    Incidentally caustic soda won't get rid of everything. Sometimes you
    need some sort of acid - scale is the best example - and some things
    neither will touch.

    I had forgotten I ever asked it!

    That would be the washing machine before the last one. We now have a
    Bosch.



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