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[OT] coca-cola and rust
wrote Any suggestions? But a ceramic teapot. Preheat it with boiling water before you make tea. Pour out the hot water, then add loose tea, then add simmering hot water and let it steep for a while. When you pour the tea, slowly, into cups, the leaves (or flowers, twigs, roots, whatever) will stay in the ceramic pot. No need for a strainer. |
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[OT] coca-cola and rust
"dnr" wrote in message ... Monique Y. Mudama wrote: Well, this article seems to debunk a lot of the "cleaning" uses of coke: http://www.truthminers.com/hoaxarticles/coke.htm This article didn't seem to have any comment about whether Coke cleaned rust. All it said was: "To loosen a rusted bolt: Applying a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt for several minutes. Same to same." I don't understand what "Same to same" means. Joyce This may seem unsympathic, Joyce....but AFAIC Coke is for drinking! When I was a kid, we put peanuts in the bottle (you, too, Matt?). My tea strainer is silver and never gets nasty or rusts. Stainless is also good. Did you know they sell little loose-woven cloth bags (each one big enough for one cup) you put loose tea in to brew and then discard? If I were you, I'd abandon ship w/that strainer you describe. What who me I don't know what you are talking about I don't remember my childhood the wheel had just been invented I think :-) |
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[OT] coca-cola and rust
"Matthew AKA NMR ( NO MORE RETAIL: This may seem unsympathic, Joyce....but AFAIC Coke is for drinking! When I was a kid, we put peanuts in the bottle (you, too, Matt?) What who me I don't know what you are talking about I don't remember my childhood the wheel had just been invented I think :-) (Snort) Old custom in the south! Peanuts in your Coke bottle! Maybe not in Kentucky, then. But you are NOT *that* old, even though Nehi, not Coke, was the favored refreshment in my childhood neighborhood. Nobody but the grownups drank tea. |
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[OT] coca-cola and rust
Victor Martinez wrote:
I've never tried coke with rust, it works well with calcium deposits though. I remember one of my sister's school friends put a tooth in a glass of coke, it completely disolved in about a week. -- Adrian (Owned by Snoopy and Bagheera) Cats leave pawprints on your heart. http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk |
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[OT] coca-cola and rust
"Victor Martinez" wrote I've never tried coke with rust, it works well with calcium deposits though. For calcium deposits, do you use it straight, or can it be diluted some? How long to soak, and is any scrubbing required? I'd like to clear the bottom of an empty water heater. The Coke can go in through a funnel at the top then I'll turn the thing on its side to drain it. I haven't drunk a Coke (nor any other soft drink, for that matter) since childhood, maybe age 7-8, when I witnessed my father using it to dissolve corrosion around a battery terminal. |
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[OT] coca-cola and rust
On 2006-03-25, Yowie penned:
Nthe knock-off brand may not be acidic. Its really the acid in coke that is the active ingredient in rust removal, although the carbonation helps 'lift' the rust (but so would a brush!) If that's true, wouldn't Fresca be even better? (Citrus flavored soda.) -- monique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca |
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[OT] coca-cola and rust
On 2006-03-25, EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) penned:
Victor Martinez wrote: I've never tried coke with rust, it works well with calcium deposits though. Hmmmm.... in taht case, think what it does to your TEETH! Regardless, soda is known to leach calcium from your bones ... -- monique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca |
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[OT] coca-cola and rust
On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 08:27:39 -0700, "Monique Y. Mudama"
wrote: Regardless, soda is known to leach calcium from your bones ... Sort of. Phosphorus will interfere with calcium and some soft drinks have phosphoric acid as flavoring. The phosphoric acid gives a "bite" to the taste. The amount of phosphoric acid is pretty small and you would need to drink a lot of soda to really screw up your bones with phosphorus. Real problems are tooth decay and getting fat, or children substituting soft drinks for milk. |
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[OT] coca-cola and rust
On 2006-03-25, Pat penned:
I haven't drunk a Coke (nor any other soft drink, for that matter) since childhood, maybe age 7-8, when I witnessed my father using it to dissolve corrosion around a battery terminal. Pat -- my father did the same thing with a mixture of baking soda and water. I don't think baking soda is that bad for you (and if it is, we'll have to stop eating anything baked!). -- monique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca |
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[OT] coca-cola and rust
"Monique Y. Mudama" wrote I haven't drunk a Coke (nor any other soft drink, for that matter) since childhood, maybe age 7-8, when I witnessed my father using it to dissolve corrosion around a battery terminal. Pat -- my father did the same thing with a mixture of baking soda and water. I don't think baking soda is that bad for you (and if it is, we'll have to stop eating anything baked!). Would baking soda dissolve the calcium in a water heater? |
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