do you clean stained water bottles?
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do you clean stained water bottles?
by stain, I mean probably some kind of fungus that's entrenched on the bottom of the bottle. I've tried soap, scrubber, vinegar, even detergent, with decent results on one, but no luck on the other one ( and I scrubbed hard). I wonder if the stain is just residue that's latched onto the material, which is probably something close to low density PE, and not really harmful. I'm just curious to see if others clean theirs, re-purpose them or just toss them.
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Full strength Clorox
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If undiluted bleach doesn't clean it, I would toss or re-purpose.
BTW, "even detergent"? What do you wash your bottles with before they get all stained?
BTW, "even detergent"? What do you wash your bottles with before they get all stained?
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Whatever dishwasher soap we use seems to have a little bleach in it as my bottles always come out squeaky clean.
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I've spend thousands of dollars on my bike, so when a bottle gets that funky, what's a few bucks on a new one?
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Try OxiClean and hot water. I found out how effective OxiClean was in my home brewing operation and it has carried over into everything else.
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Prevention is the best cure. Bottles are cheap.
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Bleach does the trick for me.
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by stain, I mean probably some kind of fungus that's entrenched on the bottom of the bottle. I've tried soap, scrubber, vinegar, even detergent, with decent results on one, but no luck on the other one ( and I scrubbed hard). I wonder if the stain is just residue that's latched onto the material, which is probably something close to low density PE, and not really harmful. I'm just curious to see if others clean theirs, re-purpose them or just toss them.
If you're not really cheap, but a new bottle.
If you wash them after each use then dry them upside down, they don't get moldy.
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Buy Camelbak, rinse well after each use with hot water and occasionally run through the dishwasher.
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A quarter inch or so of regular chlorine bleach in the bottom of the bottle, cap, shake, let sit for a few minutes, shake again, squeeze bleach (carefully) out of drinking spout into sink. Triple rinse with hot water, including rinsing the spout. The best preventative is to rinse bottles that contained any sort of sweetened sports drink ASAP and let air dry upside down. You still need to wash them once in a while, but rinsed and dried will at least keep the funk at bay.
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What about cleaning the valves on the camelback podium bottles?
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