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Are you making salad dressing, or cleaning limescale from a dishwasher?
Great post. Would rep.
The internet fixes recommend cooking oil to help loosen it. I assume being eatable makes it safer/preferable.
Vinegar is what I had. And it was the cleaning variety rather than an aged balsamic.
You do make a good point about the seals. A bit like motorbike caliper pistons(?). To clarify the concern was over drain cleaners rather than vinegar.
But yeah I will see if I can get something else, have a crack then call Miele.
hugo7
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Are you making salad dressing, or cleaning limescale from a dishwasher?
Vinegar is mostly water. You can buy liters of acetic acid on ebay for a few pounds.
Less smelly is citric acid, which is a few pounds for a few kilos.
(Or you could stick with your dressing, and squeeze the juice from 20 lemons)
Basic chemicals > condiments
Removing limescale might compromise any seals - not because they rubber / metal is being attacked (which is unlikely even with properly strong acid, let alone the weak acid in the above), but because the limescale may have formed behind the seals, damaging them in the process, and removing it may mean there's now a gap.