Cleaning My Overboard Relief Valve

[FireInMyBones]

Reading my OMS pee valve cleaning instructions, I notice that a mixture of Listerine and Dawn can be used. Not sure what mixture to use.

What does everyone clean their Pee valve with?

What method do you find most useful?

 

[HenrikBP]

I flush with flush with plenty of water and then an alcohol/vinegar mixture. I realize the contact time is not enough to really kill off everything when I just flush with that mixture, but I figure it can't hurt.

Henrik

 

[TSandM]

I use alcohol. Vinegar is not useful as a disinfectant. Irrigating copiously with water before washing with alcohol is probably useful, on the surgical theory that the solution to pollution is dilution

 

[coldsmoke]

I use mouthwash. Not sure the purpose of the Dawn recommendation. Soap doesn't really kill anything - kinda like vinegar - and hopefully there's not too much fat in your urine.

I have a little squeeze bottle that I keep in the crate that holds my suit. Every time I take it off, it gets a copious squirt.

Hunter

 

[HenrikBP]

Vinegar is not useful as a disinfectant

I was thinking in terms of changing pH value to inhibit growth. But yes, thorough flushing with water would clearly be #1.

Henrik

 

[c5diver]

you are correct about the vinegar changing the ph, this would be best used before storing your suit. as it makes an enviroment that bacteria cant grow very well.