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Red Devil TSP vs. Tri-Sodium-Phosphate
I bought some Red Devil TSP/90 Heavy Duty Cleaner, and when I got
home, I noticed it contained no phosphates. Later I saw Tri-Sodium-Phosphate itself for sale. They both had warnings about eyes and skin. Which cleans better? Especially, the soot on my walls from when my oil furnace wasn't working well. Are there other reasons for using one or the other? Remove NOPSAM to email me. Please let me know if you have posted also. |
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Red Devil TSP vs. Tri-Sodium-Phosphate
mm wrote:
I bought some Red Devil TSP/90 Heavy Duty Cleaner, and when I got home, I noticed it contained no phosphates. Later I saw Tri-Sodium-Phosphate itself for sale. They both had warnings about eyes and skin. Which cleans better? Especially, the soot on my walls from when my oil furnace wasn't working well. Are there other reasons for using one or the other? Remove NOPSAM to email me. Please let me know if you have posted also. No idea which cleans better -- I always used TSP and it always seemed to clean quite well. But your post got me wondering how close the Red Devil people are coming to false advertising when then call their cleaning product TSP anything. If their claim of no phosphates is true then it can't really be TSP. Some quick research shows that the product is actually sodium metasilicate but how that relates to tri-sodium phosphate is beyond me unless the fact that they both contain sodium means more in the world of advertising than it does in chemistry. But it really does have no phosphates FWIW. -- John McGaw [Knoxville, TN, USA] http://johnmcgaw.com |
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Red Devil TSP vs. Tri-Sodium-Phosphate
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 20:47:37 -0400, John McGaw
wrote: mm wrote: I bought some Red Devil TSP/90 Heavy Duty Cleaner, and when I got home, I noticed it contained no phosphates. Later I saw Tri-Sodium-Phosphate itself for sale. They both had warnings about eyes and skin. Which cleans better? Especially, the soot on my walls from when my oil furnace wasn't working well. Are there other reasons for using one or the other? Remove NOPSAM to email me. Please let me know if you have posted also. No idea which cleans better -- I always used TSP and it always seemed to clean quite well. But your post got me wondering how close the Red Devil people are coming to false advertising when then call their cleaning product TSP anything. If their claim of no phosphates is true then it I agree with you. TSP *mean* Tri-Sodium-Phosphate, just like TNT means Tri-Nitro-Toluene. At least when we're talking about a cleaner or an explosive. If we were talking about singers maybe they would mean The Singing Peonies or The Nervous Trio. can't really be TSP. Some quick research shows that the product is actually sodium metasilicate but how that relates to tri-sodium phosphate is beyond me unless the fact that they both contain sodium means more in the world of advertising than it does in chemistry. But it really does have no phosphates FWIW. Remove NOPSAM to email me. Please let me know if you have posted also. |
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Red Devil TSP vs. Tri-Sodium-Phosphate
I bought some Red Devil TSP/90 Heavy Duty Cleaner, and when I got home, I noticed it contained no phosphates. Later I saw Tri-Sodium-Phosphate itself for sale. Which cleans better? I ve always stuck to the real stuff. I use it to soak my hot tub filters and to get grease out of jeans Are there other reasons for using one or the other? The fake stuff is "kinder" to the environment..no phosphates |
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Red Devil TSP vs. Tri-Sodium-Phosphate
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 03:14:35 GMT, "Rudy"
wrote: I bought some Red Devil TSP/90 Heavy Duty Cleaner, and when I got home, I noticed it contained no phosphates. Later I saw Tri-Sodium-Phosphate itself for sale. Which cleans better? I ve always stuck to the real stuff. I use it to soak my hot tub filters and to get grease out of jeans Are there other reasons for using one or the other? The fake stuff is "kinder" to the environment..no phosphates Thanks to all. Well, I use this stuff so little (so far not at all ) and the real tsp is not banned, that maybe I should stick with the strong stuff so I get done before I get tired out. Remove NOPSAM to email me. Please let me know if you have posted also. |
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