Recent content by ReyDeFarts

Welcome to BAR! Glad you are here. This is an awesome community of folks with lots of experience. I'm a newbie too. Please look around, utilize that search function, and ask questions. Someone here is bound to know the answer.

Thankfully, I have quite a bit of the ESV so I probably won't need to make a Ca supplement for quite some time. Thanks for the offer.

I have been tweaking the dosage for the past week. Alk consumption has been met and slightly exceeded. My initial dosage estimate was a little too high. Nothing drastic or brutish ;) So after 4 days, I dialed back the dosage by quite a lot. I experienced some precipitation on the first day, but...

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I think it is easy to understand why folks would want something that is similar to Jake if that is what brought them enjoyment when viewing that content. He certainly could never be replaced. Nor do I believe they were trying to do that. Folks complaining and getting defensive over it seem to be...

Duuuuude! I wanted to pick up both of those. LOL I ended up missing one round cause I was busy chatting it up with folks. Those are beautiful pieces.

Read again...lol. It's not just for pH. It's for Alk maintenance. The pH boost is an added benefit though. No no, very good point. Everything can be going great until it isn't. You are definitely correct. Perhaps making a good SOP for line maintenance/ replacement and general head cleaning...

Regarding the dangers of this chemical, I work with 50% NaOH daily. So PPE is a must and understood. Maybe I'm not as worried about it because I'm around it so much everyday. The diluted solution was 1:10 100mL 50% NaOH/1000mL RODI @Darkxerox it is an exothermic reaction. It's actually safer...

I am curious if anyone here is using the recipe(s) suggested by folks like Randy Holmes-Farley for using Lye or Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH). Although it is possible to make your own solution from commonly available powder, I have access to 50% Caustic Soda. I created my own diluted solution tonight...

Bro...when you call in, we're all going to hang up again!

How often would you implement this. Also, how much did you use typically to charge the filter?

Can we change this dbtc item to something different? It's confusing since it isn't an Oregon.