Chlorine does react with SS. I would be careful using it on a boat in high concentrations. Also standard bleach is not a cleaner unless it has some additives. I think the chlorine tablets remain stable for a while but liquid bleach like Clorox breaks down into salt and water even while sealed. In places that need known concentrations the suggested shelf life is six months. If it is stored outside of 50 - 70F it may break down faster.
Michael Brown Windburn C&C 30-1 Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 15:09:52 -0500 From: "Bill Coleman" <colt...@verizon.net> To: <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> Subject: Re: Stus-List cleaning the engine compartment. Message-ID: <1b3301d27810$28a15fc0$79e41f40$@net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Matt, you probably dissolved a hole in your tank. Chlorine is super corrosive. I put a little chlorine pool pill in my intake strainer, and it corroded the 316 SS screen so bad half of it was gone. Didn?t take that long either. Bill Coleman C&C 39 From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Matthew L. Wolford via CnC-List Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 11:50 AM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Cc: Matthew L. Wolford Subject: Re: Stus-List cleaning the engine compartment. I discovered something by accident a few years ago. I decided to clean the cruddy, old freshwater tank on my 34 by putting in some water and a gallon of Clorox and letting it slosh around. I discovered a day or two later that the tank had leaked and nearly all the contents had drained into the bilge (which was more or less filled). When I removed the highly chlorinated water from the bilge, it was remarkably clean.
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