551 Cleaning Mixture

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[mustavertwang]

Thanking you for all the help you freely give to those of us whose knowledge is somewhat lacking.

[rickmilkovic]

"DUNCAN IT IN 551".Mr.Duncan, this definitely follows the "KISS" rule.Even I can remember that without writing it down. Thanks George, keep on keeping on...✌

[rexmorgan]

Man that stuff works great. I just used it a few minutes ago. It took less than a couple of minutes in a jar shaking and now the copper is sparkling again. Thanks George.

[chuckdontknowdoya]

Short and sweet thanks George I've been using this mixture for a while now and it works great on copper turns a nice blue color so you that's it's working.

[SirGolfalot-]

I was just thinking of that cleaning solution and was going to search your videos for it. Then "BAM" there it is. Thanks George

[timmyles]

THANK YOU ! I’m studying your video’s and learning about this hobby

[chuckbussey]

Used this stuff yesterday, works awesome.

That said, I used it in an old crockpot I keep the shop for such, and the pieces of copper being cleaned also contained some silver soldered sections, and some brass those cleaned up as well.
Info: The last two metals mentioned I found to be more reactive in the mixture, and the copper oxide removed during the cleaning, deposited itself on the yellow brass, totally changing it's look!

[crazymorales]

Thank you George for the 551 mixture works too well hahahah thank you happy distilling

[ronaldeitson]

george doing good..like the info .really like georges way

[robertnewman]

Thanks for the great tip George, your knowledge seems endless!

[derrickrice]

You can buy Citric acid at most stores( Walmart, meijers) in a bottle by the canning or mason jar area too.

[RT-hluk]

Citric Acid is available at my walmart year round, used to be seasonal. Its over in the canning supplies if they have it.

[webcrawler]

Salt, Vinegar, and water works great to and readily available.

[CRuf-qwyv]

Good info. George. It would be interesting for you to do a presentation on bacterial contamination and fermentation problems thereof. In an industrial production setting, bacteria problems gave us fits...that along with evaporation problems with stillage. Also, for those that use city water, is there an upper limit for chlorine residual? Or maybe doing some de-chlorination of make-up water.

[quarlow]

If you don't have Citric acid just use a couple of ounces of lemon juice. Like the Real Lemon stuff. Don't know if it works as well because I haven't tried citric acid yet, but it works well with juice.

[roylocke]

hi what's happening with the genio 50ltr manual run as I'm interested in one but hoping to see how well it works

[richardharris]

Good video . Any ideas as to a diy conditioner/ antifoam ?? Thankyou

[olivergardner]

What about running vinegar through your pot and worm?

[robertbeliveau]

Instead of citric acid, I use baking soda and get that good ole volcano effect we learned when we were kids. Works great !!!

[BucksBe]

This doesn't take the place of a vinegar run, correct? For a pot still, this would just be for cleaning the surface and not running through the still. Am I correct?