Are these CLEANING HACKS Fact or Fiction?

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[DaveHax]

Are they a disaster or genius? Let me know...

[punonn]

I really like how you reacted to using the soda on the rusty pliers. Feeling that its weird makes your channel a very genuine and realistic hack channel. Other channels seem to not care or try to address weird hacks at all.

[dinonuggetsidk]

I remember watching this guy years ago, kinda nostalgic not gonna lie.

Also the “Pretty cool, huh?” NEVER gets old

[evilsharkey]

Generally, mixing baking soda and vinegar for cleaning action is silly unless you actually need the movement from the reaction. Vinegar is a weak acid, good for cleaning lime scale. Baking soda is a weak alkali, good for dissolving organic material. If they’re mixed, they just form CO2 and a salt, sodium acetate.

My working rhyme is “Acids for lime. Bases for grime. Never apply more than one at a time.” …because they neutralize each other, and the rhyme may help discourage people from mixing household chemicals and accidentally releasing chlorine or chloramine gas..

[jasona]

I was expecting a quick feel good distracting video.

But it ended up being very education, handy, and useful. Wow. A clear win!

[ReallyRusted]

I never thought I'd sit down and just watch a guy clean stuff for 10 minutes

[BliffleSplick]

Not sure if you've covered it before, but the baked-on crud on metal is often easier to remove with Barkeeper's Friend - it's actually an acid made from rhubarb
Apply a layer, get it wet ish, let it sit and then scrub it a bit, let it sit, scrub off and it's done
Does amazing things for stainless steel sinks imo

[gravelis_]

I was in elementary school when I watched this guy from over my dad's shoulder & now I'm in high school. Better yet, the quality of his vids didn't drop a single bit. You're doing fine work Dave, thanks for staying real all these years

[Nola]

I use oven cleaner to clean my tub, I spray it on and leave it sit, it could be sitting for 3 hours depending on how dirty your tub is and when you clean it out your tub is very clean and super white. beware of spraying it to close beside or on your bathtubs caulk it will make it peel i' ve done that before but not anymore.

[pinkbutterfly]

I used to use the vinegar/salt combo to clean pennies with my grandma when I was little. I don’t remember the exact measurements she used but she would dissolve the salt in some vinegar then we’d drop a bunch of pennies in and let them soak for a few minutes. It was a really pointless activity but I always had a lot of fun doing it.

[DaveHax]

What's your favorite cleaning tip? Are you going to try any of these?

[phoxgames]

Coke vs rust is unbeatable. Used to do industrial cleaning for jeep and we had to remove rust from condensation chambers. Clr, industrial acids and cleaners couldn't touch the rust. Tried some cherry coke as a joke. That's all we used after that.

[magsoh]

He never forgets to say “ pretty cool huh?” It’s cool 😎

[t_thyme]

For the burnt pan at the beginning, put it in the oven on low(100C) and fill it with baking soda and water. Leave it for ca 30min or so, once some of the water starts evaporating a bit. Depending on how dirty it is you may have to repeat a couple times with fresh water but you won't need a lot of elbow grease to clean it.

[rolfathan]

I really like the emphasis in this video about it being a real used pan, and a real test to see if it works. The other channels just try to make something that LOOKS satisfying but isn't real.

[top_hat_walrus]

Some people: “Look at what coke does to rust and you put it in your body”

Me: Yeah have you seen what hydrochloric acid does to stuff and it’s in your stomach too lol

[bakerfx]

For the baking soda and vinegar you need to make it into a thick paste with water first, and then wait for it to dry. Then once it’s dry, spray it with vinegar from a spray bottle and scrub. I use this method to clean my stove all the time

[ItsThyme]

9:07

"Hey man, you coming over?"
"Yeah, give me a sec, gotta brush my sneakers."

[miathemouse]

I do a lot of cleaning, and restoring things, so I've had to deal with rust on many types of objects. I've done a lot of research and experimentation to get a better understanding of rust, metal, and the processes used for dealing with rust on metal surfaces. Shout out to my dad, who is a mechanic, for supplying me with as much rusty metal as I needed to feel like I understood what was going on!

If you're goal is to remove rust from an object by soaking it in anything, you need to first take off whatever you can using a scouring pad, steel wool (or other metal scrubbing pad), or a wire brush. Getting off what you can before soaking makes it easier for the solution you're soaking the object in to get to the area where the rust is actually touching the metal. This means that the soak will take less time to work, but the trade-off is that it takes more effort before the soak.

If I'm specifically wanting to convert the rust, then I don't do the above process, because removing the rust could cause putting on the surface of the object. The rust crust has to stay on the object, because it has to be there for the conversion process to turn it back into metal. Removing the rust crust before soaking or coating the object in the rust converter causes unsightly pitting on its surface, which isn't ideal, especially if you are restoring the object.

It's always important to remember that cleaning rust off of an object is different from converting it. The preparation of the object is going to depend on which one you are trying to do.

[Escviitash]

Applying heat when using baking soda aids the process. I clean my burnt on pans by boiling water in the pan and applying baking soda once it is boiling and let it boil for a few minutes more, then a light scrub to remove any loosened dirt. Rinse and repeat until the pan is clean which for me usually means repeating the process once or twice. Burnt on stuff that hides in any scratches on the pan, but usually is invisible to the naked eye, speeds up the procces of building up new layers of visible burnt on stuff. That invisible burnt on stuff is gone too.