Cleaning the T500

by **Andy** » Sun Apr 03, 2011 9:52 am

I have just pulled my 500 apart to clean the saddles.

What a pain separating the copper from the saddles but got it done.

Whats the best way of cleaning??

by **Capt-Cudellez** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 1:56 am

I just boil the copper in a pan with some water and vinegar. When I ran some wash that wasn\'t dry and it was really smelly, I used some hydrogen peroxide that I use for sterilising stuff in the greenhouse on the ceramic saddles. That worked great.
I normally now just part fill the boiler after a spirit run with water, and run it without any cooling, the steam does a good job of cleaning it up. I have however replaced the spirit hose coming off the condenser with some 1/4â€

by **Andy** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 1:00 pm

Thanks CC

by **MARBAKER** » Wed Apr 06, 2011 2:20 am

i use a tin of coke for the saddles and lemon juice for the copper hope this helps.

by **foRUM warrior** » Fri Apr 08, 2011 12:21 pm

on my essencia still (copper scrubbers in collium) i just use a boiling citric acid solution, then drain away @ 40degrees and rinse through. but for ceramics i use coke