Monday, Mar 20, 2006 at 19:18
Very good suggestion Peter, I mean what the hell, I am only the hub of information from the 1000 or so...
Gibbo, here is the best chem I have heard of so far, at least by reports, as all I have used is the good soak with a couple litres of vinegar or sodium bicarb, or even cuppa bleach, and a few days soaking a draining and such..
But this is supposed to work, (copied from source)
Being a home brewer for 10 years or so, I adopted the sterilization powder, sodium metabisulphate. When I arrive home from a trip, I empty all TANKs, then put a heaped tablespoon of sod.met. in two litres of WATER, mix and put in each TANK. Then I drive the van around, preferably on a bit of rough road or find a place where there are traffic calming devices such as speed humps, chicanes, roundabouts etc. so you really get the stuff swishing around. I came back from one trip with a trace of green algae showing in my clear plastic TANK gauges (see in my photos in the Pictures page), and the process got rid of that.When youve done the swish trip, find an embankment or steep side slope to drain the TANKs again. Then put about 20 l of WATER in each TANK whilst in storage. There will still be a trace of sod. met. in that 20 l , but that's good. Now before next trip, empty the TANKs, and then fille'm up for your trip.
You can get Sod. met. at the supermarkets in the home brew section.
Anyway, probably all of them work if done enough, da Ranger....
And Gibbo, yes there is a drain on each tank, protected by its own cute little stoneguard...
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