I will stupid if someone knows this one already but.... I recently got a nice 10pt whitetail in the shop and the rack was drenched in two year old half sun baked blood and I tried several things to take it off! Everything from acetone to thinner to that orange cleaner stuff to bug and tar remover you name it I tried it. Finally after an hour af cursing at the customer my wife suggested I try her new Mr Clean dry eraser. I said heck if it takes the 1 month (did I sayone month?) scum off the tub It won't hurt to try it. It worked great! It took me less than 5 minutes to clean the entie rack! I wonder if this would work on a blood stained cape? I gotta give the wife credit on this one.
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But no one listens. Soap (Mr. Clean) attacks protein EVERY TIME. Works on all kinds of stuff as it's a DEGREASER as well. LOL. It works great on wild boars.
George, I don't recall this thing you call SOAP? Is it a new product or something? Space age material perhaps? LOL! Actually I used a bar of cheap Dial to remove the fat out of the burs on this rack because someone boiled it and let the rack get to far in the pot and fat accumulated at the bases. If I would have only used the soap farther up on the antlers. Hmmmmm, the things we overlook in life.
You do know, of course, Dial is not soap? Ivory, always, Dial is a "bathing cleanser" or "beauty bar". Soap has lye in it, beauty bars have "detergents".
Identity: Magic Eraser
Brands: Mr. Clean
Ingredients/Chemical Name: Formaldehyde-Melamine-Sodium Bisulfite Copolymer
peroxide does the trick
LMAO. But the pH is excessively high compared to detergents to the final results are the same.
JoAnn, peroxide is never a good idea on blood except as a last resort. It's a bleach that is indiscriminate. Hot soapy water will take blood off any antler.
how nervous you guys make me at times?
By the way, did I get the publication year of the original first edition correct? Has the copyright been kept up to date?
Let's compare a 1945 Ford car to a 2005 Ford car. They're both Ford cars aren't they? They gotta be the same. They both only take four blocks.
Back in the '60s and '70s of the last century, Ivory Dish SOAP was one of the trade secrets of professional dog groomers and dog show handlers. That was THEN, this is NOW. You might want to check your labels anytime and see what is now packaged or bottled under a TRADE name. I WOULD NOT bathe an animal in any of the current dish LIQUIDS that I know of.
if you accidently hit the Enter key when your typing finger was really headed to the Shift key that a post shoots right off your computer?
I wasn't done yet.
THEN FINISH I'm waiting with bated breath.
Acid bated? Your falcon cause that? No wonders everything I buy these days has information printed in at least two languages. No one wants to learn English.
I kinda just got myself into a bit of a mess. I've got some material setting up on me that I really didn't want setting up until I was ready for it to.......
I'll get back as soon as I can. Might be awhile. Breathe in. Breathe out.
let's give a free English lesson or two. First off, tell the folks what lye is. I know there are those that already know, but I bet the number of those that DON'T are far greater in number.
Once you do that, I'll come back with questions. The best gift that can be given is to let someone know that it is really O.K. to use their own mind. Correlating starts things that direction.
Lye or commonly called caustic soda is sodium hydroxide (Potassium hydroxide is also considered lye, but I was never involved in using it that I know of). The chemical is leeched from wood ashes and in early American, all soaps were "lye soaps". It was usually made from the grease rendered from "last years" butching or from grease that had turned rancid. It was put in a large pot and heated until it became liquid again. Then ashes gathered from previous burnings was dumped into the pot. Ashes were added until the brew became the consistency of thick mashed potatoes. At that time, the concoction was poured into flat pans and allowed to cool. Before it became completely hardened, it was cut much like fudge and the gray "lye soap" bars were then stored and used for ALL washings, both bathing and for clothes on a washboard. Sometimes the bars were shaved to make dissolution of them in hot water quicker. In my childhood, not enough wood ashes were available to make the soap strong enough so cans of Red Devil Lye were bought and a single can was enough in a big pot to make good soap. I THINK Ivory was one of the last soaps that used some lye and fat as they advertised themselves as the only soap that floated atop the bath water. But I'm just a dumb country boy. Glen will have to fill you in on the real deal.
Excellent post.
Actually the floating Ivory Soap was brought about as an accident. History has it that a worker allowed an agitator to run for too long "aerating" the soap that gave it the bouyancy. The accidental batch had an immediate market demand calling for more of the soap that floats.
We need another quiz kid now. Taking volunteers.
1. What chemical name does baking soda go by?
2. What chemical name does Sal Soda go by?
3. By chemical name, what would baking soda dissolved in water be called?
4. By chemical name, what would Sal Soda dissolved in water be called?
5. What would be produced if either of the two above were to be heated in water to a temperature above 140 degrees Farenheit?
what can happen when Crowd Control becomes too efficient. No one can get through to post the answers to the questions.
I use the same old wire brush for many years, all I use it on is antlers, so it doesnt get scuzzy, and wont be replaced by a more aggressive one. Dried blood knocks right off.