Thanks Nestork for all the background. The openings are clogged but
there is almost a full bottle of still-liquid inside each of them.

If acids and bases don't bother plastic, I may use a plastic bucket or
waste basket.

On Thu, 13 Nov 2014 17:00:20 +0100, nestork
wrote:


trader_4;3308167 Wrote:

Inquiring minds want to know how that toilet bowl cleaner is going
to get to the bathtub if all he does is weight the container down

The dried up stuff extends to the very opening. And once the water
dissolves that stuff, it will start to dissolve stuff farther into the
cap. The caps are those designed to twist maybe a 1/4 of a turn.

and put it in a bathtub with water. And even if a tiny bit does come
out, it's going to be diluted by 10+ gallons of water in the tub.
It's not going to harm anything.

I really wanted to use the sink, and even in the tub, my first
inclination would be to fill it up only enough to cover the bottles on
their side. It doesn't seem like it, but I guess that would be more
than two 5-gallon buckets,

I presume this is a spray container? If so, just remove the spray

I didn't know they made spray versions of toilet bowl cleaner. ;-)
It's liquid, meant to be turned upside down and squeezed to get the
liquid out.

Do you guys have wives to clean the toilets, so you don't know how the
caps work? Perhaps one of the wives could come over and show me how
to do this.

part and soak that in a sink.

I don't think the caps are removeable without ruining them or the
bottles. . For children's safety. You have to squeeze the outer layer
of the cap (something small kids can't do) to even twist it a quarter
turn open, and then you'd have only a small stream. But even the outer
layer of the nozzle won't come off without tools. It would be worse
yet to remove the whole cap and have the stuff just pour out. So I may
have jumped to a conclusion, but I think they made that impossible.

If it's the whole inside of the
container
that's dried up, then I don't understand the bathtub idea at all.

Well, Trader, that's exactly it.

What do these containers look like? Are they spray bottles or something
else. And, how does one go about "weighing them down" so they don't
float in the water?

I haven't figured that out yet. One step at a time. But since you
raise the question, maybe a rock. Darn, I thew away my softball-sized
rocks, and I haven't seen my two spare bricks in a long time. (Left by
the previous owner, who didn't leave anything else one would call junk.
And they didn't match the house, which is half brick.)

I can't think of anything, other than to go to a stream and bring back a
rock.

I have no idea what Mickey would end up doing here,
so I thought it would be prudent to at least warn him/her that any
hydrochloric acid based toilet bowl cleaner could attack the chrome
plating on the bathtub drain, so that he/she'd be able to avoid doing
any harm.

I definitely appreciate the warning. It might have been vague memories
about this that made me ask in the first place.