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Acid barrels safe to use?

  • 13-04-2018 10:11pm
    #1
    Nobbies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 352 ✭✭


    would plastic barrels (common blue ones) be safe to use for filling with cattle meal or cut in half and used as a trough.even after agood wash.see them for sale on donedeal but they have a corrosive label on them.


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  • #2
    Peter90
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 96 ✭✭Peter90


    Ya wipe up throw in a bucket of water when open rinse and let dry be grand


  • #3
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,128 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Could you neutralise the acid with some lime added to water, I wonder.
    I've always washed them here with power washer and rinsed 3 times. Feckers take the labels off anyway.


  • #4
    Eamonn8448
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 135 ✭✭Eamonn8448


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Could you neutralise the acid with some lime added to water, I wonder.
    I've always washed them here with power washer and rinsed 3 times. Feckers take the labels off anyway.

    he could but a good rinse will do just as good, no need to go juicing a red cabbage to see where abouts on the pH scale you end up lol


  • #5
    ganmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,748 ✭✭✭ganmo


    Rinse it out 3 times and ur golden


  • #6
    Nobbies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 352 ✭✭Nobbies


    Thanks folks


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  • #7
    MF290
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 728 ✭✭✭MF290


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Could you neutralise the acid with some lime added to water, I wonder.
    I've always washed them here with power washer and rinsed 3 times. Feckers take the labels off anyway.

    Lime seems to work. Cut an old barrel that was about years, it must have been sulphuric acid in it, hissed and bubbled when I threw the lime in. Threw a bit in to a barrel with propionic acid and nothing happened at all.


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