Dawn vs Laundry Detergent
Latest Dawn/dish detergent post got DW to thinking (I know, that's a bad thing but I couldn't stop her): Would laundry detergent be better for holding tanks? It's made to cut grease and just about eve...
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DrewE wrote:John&Joey wrote:
Key words "cut grease." You need your blade to slide easily when you pull it. Last thing you want is for it to stick to the rubber seal and either pull it out or just get stuck.
All these VooDoo tank cleaning schemes, might just bite you in the ...
Would you also worry about a roughly equal amount of soap and detergent that gets into the gray water tank from dishwashing, laundry, bathing, etc.?
The rubber seals on the valves are not greased, so far as I am aware; they get sticky or wear out or leak or break mainly due to age.
That's not my understanding. Those seals do have lubricant on them. I did the Voodoo stuff with PineSol in the very beginning. After about 4 months I had issues.
Soap doesn't cut grease. Hair wash is not advertised as cutting grease. Dish washing is only a couple squirts per sink full. Needless to say it's maybe once a night then mixed with 40 gallons of other gray water so it's not that much in the big picture.
If all you do is weekend camping then you might not have an issue, but then again why do you think you need to clean the tank so well?
