About the use of vinegar: I don’t know about the US and Canada, but in Europe there are differences in vinegar strength. Food grade white vinegar isn’t as strong as what’s commonly known as ‘household vinegar’ or ’cleaning vinegar’ which is much more caustic. Now I’m wondering what the dosage would be for both kinds. Baking soda or regular cake soap shavings (aka ‘natural soap’) are both suitable for neutralising any acid, including vinegar or citric acid. As a matter of fact, even dish soap or laundry soap are. PH-neutral shampoo is not. If you’ve got an acid bath and you just used a bucket of soapy water for something else, consider mixing them both once you used the acid bath. Then tip out the mixture. No need to whip out the baking soda. Or at least, no need to add as much. 😊 A little tip: if you’ve got mold somewhere: mold usually doesn’t like acid. Neither do weeds. Neither does the green buildup on your patio. It might be worth considering ‘recycling’ your acid bath for one of those. As an alternative, if you don’t want to simply tip out the acidic water, washing out or soaking things that have some calcium buildup can be a use for the water… as long as it’s not for anything coming close to food. Don’t use exhausted dye baths for it either. If you know the pH of your soaking solution, you can also consider giving it to plants that love acidic soil, provided you dilute it to the correct pH or adjust it some other way. Again, I wouldn’t don’t do this in your vegetable plot.
Hi! Thanks for all your info! I didn’t think there was a difference in the US between vinegar strength. I always use distilled vinegar. You prompted me to investigate and the ph of Distilled white vinegar is 2.4 and not distilled white vinegar is 2.6. I use the more acidic one. The dye classes I have had all say the same thing. White Vinegar about 11cc per liter of dye bath. Thanks for watching! Spin Happy!😃
Thank you for the video, it's very helpful, and your rovings look spectacular. I never thought of using a cat litter box, I'm going to buy one for sure. Is the table stainproof? I have been thinking about buying one and thought that I'd need to put a Dollar Tree table cloth on it.
Hi! My indoor table has a junky plastic tablecloth with felt backing. Most of the stain will wash off with soap and water or 409. This one was purchased specifically for dying, so I didn’t really care if it got dye on it. I just used four or nine and wiped it up when I was done. thanks for watching, and Spin Happy!😃
Have you tried wearing the gloves on the opposite hands? Sometimes, the thumbs don't work right when you do it, but i usually get used to it. Depends on the gloves, i think! But i also dislike those knobs on the fingers 🫠
Thank you for doing this video, so helpful. I'm excited to try it myself 😊
Awesome! 👏🏻
About the use of vinegar: I don’t know about the US and Canada, but in Europe there are differences in vinegar strength. Food grade white vinegar isn’t as strong as what’s commonly known as ‘household vinegar’ or ’cleaning vinegar’ which is much more caustic. Now I’m wondering what the dosage would be for both kinds.
Baking soda or regular cake soap shavings (aka ‘natural soap’) are both suitable for neutralising any acid, including vinegar or citric acid. As a matter of fact, even dish soap or laundry soap are. PH-neutral shampoo is not.
If you’ve got an acid bath and you just used a bucket of soapy water for something else, consider mixing them both once you used the acid bath. Then tip out the mixture. No need to whip out the baking soda. Or at least, no need to add as much. 😊
A little tip: if you’ve got mold somewhere: mold usually doesn’t like acid. Neither do weeds. Neither does the green buildup on your patio. It might be worth considering ‘recycling’ your acid bath for one of those.
As an alternative, if you don’t want to simply tip out the acidic water, washing out or soaking things that have some calcium buildup can be a use for the water… as long as it’s not for anything coming close to food. Don’t use exhausted dye baths for it either. If you know the pH of your soaking solution, you can also consider giving it to plants that love acidic soil, provided you dilute it to the correct pH or adjust it some other way. Again, I wouldn’t don’t do this in your vegetable plot.
Hi! Thanks for all your info! I didn’t think there was a difference in the US between vinegar strength. I always use distilled vinegar. You prompted me to investigate and the ph of Distilled white vinegar is 2.4 and not distilled white vinegar is 2.6. I use the more acidic one. The dye classes I have had all say the same thing. White Vinegar about 11cc per liter of dye bath. Thanks for watching! Spin Happy!😃
Thank you for the video, it's very helpful, and your rovings look spectacular. I never thought of using a cat litter box, I'm going to buy one for sure. Is the table stainproof? I have been thinking about buying one and thought that I'd need to put a Dollar Tree table cloth on it.
Hi! My indoor table has a junky plastic tablecloth with felt backing. Most of the stain will wash off with soap and water or 409. This one was purchased specifically for dying, so I didn’t really care if it got dye on it. I just used four or nine and wiped it up when I was done. thanks for watching, and Spin Happy!😃
Have you tried wearing the gloves on the opposite hands? Sometimes, the thumbs don't work right when you do it, but i usually get used to it. Depends on the gloves, i think! But i also dislike those knobs on the fingers 🫠
I have not! I will try it next time!