rcontrera
Contributor
We never bothered to think about it since a good soaking in the Salt-X seemed to loosen up the crud and a little elbow grease and soap removed all the rest. I think if you look at that green that forms on the brass parts, you will see that it is mostly being held in place by salt crystals. Once the salt is dissolved, the green will clean off fairly easily.
We just never wanted to use any acid baths anymore. We had LOTS of regulators that had cheap chrome jobs that would start flaking if we left it in the bath for any more than a minute or two. The old Scubapro second stages were the worst! Once it started flaking, we had to either finish the job and peel it the rest of the way (don't want to be breathing peeling chrome!) or condemn the part. If we caused the peeling, we would eat the cost of the new part.
Many of them came in peeling so they had been subjected to home vinegar treatments or acid baths from other dive shops.By shifting to the Salt-X, we never had to eat any more peeling chrome jobs.
