The problem with bisulphate is that it can leave a powdery residue behind if
you don't rinse very throughly.
As George pointed out, urine is sterile (I remember stories of arab warriors
sterilizing wounds with it).
What you need to do is get out the stink and the crud- salt, urine crystals,
etc.  Hence the reccomendation for vinegar (white vinegar is supposed to be
best).  I haven't tried bisulphite for cleaning out wings but it sounds like
it would probably work.
Wendell G

>A good, inexpensive sterilising solution for things like pee valves, wing
>bladders and reducing the stink in wet suits etc is sodium metabisulphate
>solution. It sounds technical to the uninitiated but it is the sterilising

>crystals that you buy in home brew shops for cleaning barrels and siphons.

>It costs next to nothing, has no shelf life, little in the line of
>contra-indications, can be legally transported as it is not a serious
>reducing agent or contaminant etc.......a cheap and near perfect product,
>now, when will someone package it for divers and quadruple the price?
>----- Original Message -----
>From: dmdalton <dmdalton@qu*.ne*>
>To: Fabricio Rosas Tariki <frtariki@or*.co*.br*>; Aquanaut Techdiver
><techdiver@aquanaut.com>
>Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 5:17 AM
>Subject: Re: P-valves
>
>
>> Vinegar should work fine. We used it as a home disinfectant for cleaning

>> trach tubes for my son on a vent. I just picked up a p-vale when I was in

>> High Springs at the EE store and plan to use vinegar and a syringe ( a
>> turkey baster would work fine ) to purge it after each dive. simpler than

>> taking it apart.
>>
>> Shoot it down the balance valve as well.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Fabricio Rosas Tariki <frtariki@or*.co*.br*>
>> To: Aquanaut Techdiver <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 1:07 PM
>> Subject: P-valves
>>
>>
>> > Hi, list
>> >
>> > I have been following the p-valve thread with great interest, because I

>> had
>> > just received mine early this week. My p-valve is a balanced model, and

>> > have, as all the new models, shrink tubes over the check valves.
>> >
>> > Somebody have a easy and, more important, efficient method for
>> disinfecting
>> > it without disassembling the whole unit or removing the shrink tubes? I

>> > remember that somebody said something about using vinegar, is that
>> > effective? What is the recommendation of Extreme Exposure? BTW, I had
>> > already looked over their website and found nothing.
>> >
>> > Regards
>> > Fabricio
>> >
>> > --
>> > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'.

>> > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.

>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>> Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'.
>> Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.

>
>--
>Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'.
>Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
>
>
>
--
Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'.
Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.

Navigate by Author: [Previous] [Next] [Author Search Index]
Navigate by Subject: [Previous] [Next] [Subject Search Index]

[Send Reply] [Send Message with New Topic]

[Search Selection] [Mailing List Home] [Home]