Cleaning Maple Sap Lines
Q: What do you recommend to pressure flush clean our maple sap lines? A: We would recommend using a 1% solution of Citranox® Liquid Acid Cleaner and Detergent (1.25 oz/gal or 10 mL/L) to pressure flush your maple sap lines. …
Cleaning Copper Optical Molds
Q. The ammonia-peroxide solution (also known as Standard Clean 1 or SC1) is a very effective cleaner on our nickel optical molds, but we cannot use that cleaner on our new copper optical molds. The SC1 solution is very corrosive to copper. So we would like to find another cleaner that we could use for both copper and nickel parts. We are mostly removing machining fluid and particulates. Our parts have a very tight spec on particulates. We need to have essentially no particulates greater than 10 um, and this is inspected with a microscope. Obviously, the ammonia-peroxide solution is moderately dangerous to work with, and disposal is expensive. We go through at least 55 gallons per month of the ammonia-peroxide solution, it is quite a hassle.
Cleaning Aluminum 6061-T6
Q. We have a new product to clean small precision parts of aluminum 6061-T6 which have been trough heat-treating (surface oxide) and afterwards machined (cutting fluids). What Alocnox product do you recommend?
A. For manual, soak and immersion cleaning of the aluminum, we recommend using a warm or hot 2% Citranox (2.5 oz/gal or 20 mL/L) mild, citric acid based detergent followed by …
Cleaning Bronze Anodized Metal
Q. We have bronze anodized metal that has water spots/stains on it. So far we’ve only tried denatured alcohol, but we’re looking for a new cleaner. We install store front metals and doors and often we receive our metal extrusions with these spots. We currently have a very large order that has to be installed quickly and need a quick cleanup that we can use on the job site.
A. To remove water spots and stains on anodized metal surfaces, clean with a 2% Citranox solution (20 mL/L or 2.5 oz/gal) by wiping down the surface. Rinse with …
Citranox for Removing Water Scale
Q. We are looking for a good citric acid cleaner that would work to remove hardness residue on colored pool surround. What do you recommend?
A. The best detergent for your application would be Citranox. It is excellent at removing metal oxides and water scale.
