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Old 06-05-2005, 07:29 PM   #1
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It only breaks salt down... I use it on my R/C's when i drive them the beach to keep the salt from eating the aluminum and to keep from using solvent based cleaners that will degrease the bearings...

I use it on my reels once in a blue moon, actually just once a year at the end of the season..

http://www.salt-x.com/salt-x7.htm

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Old 06-05-2005, 10:30 PM   #2
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do you spray it on your reel on a regular basis or just once a season? i might be considering about buying one because im tired of washing my reels and rods with water and spraying them with a WD40. Then I tried to use superlube and i screwed my abus up last year.
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Old 06-06-2005, 08:46 AM   #3
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I am not a chemist, but have a background in science. I have always been sceptical of this stuff. I wish I knew what it was.

Salt, Sodium Choloride, NaCl, or whatever you want to call it is very soluble in water. It dissociates into it's two ions and the world is happy. So do this stuff make the salt more soluble in water? Or maybe is just helps the water rinse away better?

If you guys really think it is working better than just a good freshwater dousing, maybe it is worth a try. What does it smell like? soapy, or like an organic solvent? Or more like vinegar, like windex?

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Old 06-06-2005, 03:12 PM   #4
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As long as your water isn't to alkaline(hard) or to acid rinsing in freshwater is just as good.

The salt-x is good for when your water is real hard.But then again going to the
local aquarium store and getting a pH buffer like Sodium Biphosphate(softens
hard water) will do the same thing at a fraction of the price.
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Old 06-06-2005, 04:36 PM   #5
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I have heard allot of guys use watered down vinager in spray bottles to do the salt trick.

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