storing star san in a corney

[sjvicker]

So what kind of plastic is the Star San container made out of?

 

[JoMarky]

So what kind of plastic is the Star San container made out of?

indeed.. diluted star san eats plastic buckets, but concentrated star san comes packaged in plastic...hmm.

 

[jpc]

indeed.. diluted star san eats plastic buckets, but concentrated star san comes packaged in plastic...hmm.

So you're telling me that I imagined that my bucket spung a leak and pissed StarSan all over my floor? Thanks. How silly of me to believe what I witnessed with my own eyes.

Also, you do realize

 

[JoMarky]

I don't know how you get me saying you have a tendency to hallucinate from my post..but if you want me to elaborate, what you could have inferred from my post was that the leak could have been cause by another source.

Perhaps the bucket was dropped at some point, or from all the times of setting it down when it was filled with gallons of liquid it eventually developed a fracture from the stress, or maybe it was a manufacturing defect. All I was saying was star-san comes packaged in plastic, and I have never seen a report of anyones star-san bottle starting to leak because the acid ate it, so it seems unlikely that it ate your plastic.

Did you ever try and locate the point of the leak? I would think that its source could be telling as to how it happened.

 

[boo boo]

I have star-san in its original container that has ben on my shelf for 3 years and it hasn't leaked out yet.
And I keep diluted star-san in my bottling bucket 24/7/12. I have used this bucket for the past 4 years, storing star-san and it is just as good as new.
Just my personal experience.

 

[jldc]

I keep diluted star-san in a spray bottle, and a gallon mixed up in an old plastic apple juice (apfelwein anybody?) jug at all times without any problems. I clean and sanitize kegs immediately after they get drained and leave a few cups of star-san in them until I fill them again. However, the cap on my star-san concentrate did crack early on. Since I use a spray bottle and the "slosh method" (put a few cups of sanitizer in a car-boy or keg and "slosh" it around), my bottle of concentrated star-san appears to be a lifetime supply unless I need to buy another just to get a new cap.

 

[mordantly]

yeah.. i got a quart and only made 5 gallons almost 6 months ago. now im down to ~4 gallons and not saving it anymore solely because theres no need.

 

[Red Clay]

indeed.. diluted star san eats plastic buckets, but concentrated star san comes packaged in plastic...hmm.

Believe what you will, I guess. Perhaps you know more about polymers, molding, surfactants and such than I do.

But just some food for thought...detergents (like Tide) are sold in plastic containers all the time. But surfactant-accelerated ESC is a well-known phenomena in the plastics business. It's all about the exact polymer, how it is molded, what additives were used, etc.

I suspect most people won't have a problem with storing an surfactant in a plastic container. But it is certainly possible for something like starsan to cause leaks in some plastic containers.

 

[mordantly]

doesn't starsan already hack a sticky?

 

[Brewin_CRAZY]

Starsan may be acidic but at std. dilution in a corny it doesnt hurt anything. I have left a normal starsan solution in a corny for close to a year. I actually prefer to leave like a half gal in my empty cornys because it wont alloy any bacteria to grow in them. Love it!

 

[ftlstrings]

...so you're telling me that this didn't happen? You're telling me that I imagined the wet cardboard, the liquid all over the slate tile floor, the stains on the tile that got me bitched out?

Sorry, but I know what happened, and I can't explain it, but it happened.

Do you have a dog?

~M~

 

[noblesquirrel]

also, there is more than one plastic polymer... and my bottle has leaked...

 

[killian]

my bottle has leaked also

 

[abracadabra]

I was surprised to see this still lurking around the top of the tread list after all this time. So I thought I'd throw in my 2 cents.

Various plastics can be damaged by certain things such as UV (ultraviolet) radiation I believe UV-B rays are especially damaging to certain plastics.

UV radiation causes plastics to get hard and brittle with the passage of time.

A simple cause and effect anlaysis does not always apply.

In other words if you were looking at crime scenes from space and knew nothing of crime and or of crime scenes. A simple cause and effect analysis might lead you to believe that since police were usually present at the scene of a crime, that police caused crimes to occur.

Same applies to star-san leaking from plastic, that since the plastic leaked and the thing that it leaked was star-san that star-san caused the plastic to develop leaks. When in acutality there may have been other causes.

 

[noblesquirrel]

I was merely saying that it could be cause and effect, not that it necessarily is. And just for the record, I do keep mine in a cabinet, out of the light for that exact reason...

 

[mordantly]

[....]A simple cause and effect analysis might lead you to believe that since police were usually present at the scene of a crime, that police caused crimes to occur.

i'll subscribe to that.