Thread: Cleaning Hunting Clothing

Originally Posted by Puffin

@2post. Don't, at least not together. Baking Soda (sodium bicarbonate) as an alkali and abrasive followed by neutralising with vinegar (from the acetic acid component) and then rinsing may be effective for cleaning surfaces, but combining them up front for washing clothes would just give a sodium acetate mix. The fizzing is not a measure of the efficacy for cleaning.
The better choice is Washing Soda (sodium carbonate), significantly higher pH, or maybe some combination of washing soda with sodium percarbonate if you're into refining a homemade cleaner blend.

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Thanks @Puffin, i wasn’t going to combine vinegar and baking soda but meaning with the two products you can clean most things, except maybe my rifle- as you know I never clean that.

Originally Posted by Puffin

@2post. Don't, at least not together. Baking Soda (sodium bicarbonate) as an alkali and abrasive followed by neutralising with vinegar (from the acetic acid component) and then rinsing may be effective for cleaning surfaces, but combining them up front for washing clothes would just give a sodium acetate mix. The fizzing is not a measure of the efficacy for cleaning.
The better choice is Washing Soda (sodium carbonate), significantly higher pH, or maybe some combination of washing soda with sodium percarbonate if you're into refining a homemade cleaner blend.

New World & PaknSave: https://www.clarkproducts.co.nz/prod...oducts/laundry
Soda Crystals | Damar Industries
Countdown: https://shop.countdown.co.nz/shop/pr...-soda-crystals

What about Borax as a cleaner / disinfectant / preservative @Puffin ? I suggest that @Boaraxa will need something effective for his testicles after his impending vasectomy

Will a baking soda wash cancel UV content from previous normal wash?

Originally Posted by Tikka7mm08

Will a baking soda wash cancel UV content from previous normal wash?

Only if you hang it out at night to dry

...but it won't dry at night in Canterbury.

Originally Posted by Tikka7mm08

...but it won't dry at night in Canterbury.

Maybe not but it will freeze

Not sure that helps me. Wife delights in running our dryer 24/7 so will get her to put the clothes through that (at night).

Originally Posted by Tikka7mm08

Not sure that helps me. Wife delights in running our dryer 24/7 so will get her to put the clothes through that (at night).

Turn the lights out too

Originally Posted by Gibo

Turn the lights out too

Copy.

Originally Posted by Tikka7mm08

Copy.

Yip, and the copy machine

Originally Posted by Tikka7mm08

Not sure that helps me. Wife delights in running our dryer 24/7 so will get her to put the clothes through that (at night).

LOL mines to mean to buy a dryer

If no ones said it already just get married. Its been the best cleaner of hunting gear for me ive ever had .

Originally Posted by Nathan F

If no ones said it already just get married. Its been the best cleaner of hunting gear for me ive ever had .

Screenshot taken.

Originally Posted by Tikka7mm08

Screenshot taken.

Just as well your having a break from Facebook or I’m sure it would be on her page already 😂😂😂

It's the ducks that will be hugely tuned to UV because many birds use UV reflective markings for mate selection. Deer appear to be sensitive to it too....and particularity sensitive to the color blue.

https://ecosystems.psu.edu/research/...e-eyes-have-it