On 12-1995, JERRY RUDOFF wrote to TOM WEISS:
-> problem would likely not be evident for hundreds of years ...
 JR> This is good news.  You had me worrying for a moment...
 JR> Actually, although it may sound as if the chlorine I use is very
 JR> caustic, the proportions to water I mix pretty much reduce it to
 JR> relatively safe levels.
Chlorine is an acid, not caustic.  Most old disenfectants were acids.  Phenol 
is one that comes to mind.  The newer ones are typically pH neutral and are 
organic solvents.  Kathy's Oxy-fresh might not be pH neutral ... ?
Keep in mind that all acids corrode even at low levels ... it's a (time) X 
(concentration) thing.  Perhaps you've heard of the nail in the Coke bottle 
trick?  The nail will eventually corrode to nothing in Coke! Yet we think of 
it as safe to drink as a mild acid ... akin to orange juice.
Once each summer I take the cage apart and move it outside to spary it down 
with a mild chlorine bleach solution.  I then let the parts air/sun dry.
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