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if not using su deoasan red label is a good wash out.
used quite a lot of CTL in last couple of weeks without issue. tonight big issue. sprayer has been sat over the weekend with Sinconil/ Teb in tank. pipe at base of tank leading to pump completely blocked solid. only found out after filling to 3600 litres with water and more chem as water inlet pipe to pump is clear. so what to do with full tank and no outlet. simples. suction pipe from water inlet back into top of tank. sprayed it out.
so which of these causes the main tank outlet at the base to become blocked
1. repeated use of CTL (any brand) and leaving for 1-7 days, or
2. 1 can of sinconil
3. previous to Sinconil, used Amistar, Alto elite, Opte-Man
4. Previous to that used CTL/ teb/ Topik
5. previous to that used Epic/CTL
Exclusively I believe...........Frontier sell Tank and Equipment Cleaner.
Exclusively I believe...........
3 suppliers I tried couldn't get it including FMP.Could be. My Aquascope and X Change comes from them.
Soaking helps but is not critical. If you're leaving them in the machine I run the pump for a while with all the purge & rinse systems going. For treating the sprayer itself the concentration of the cleaners is more important than the volume. Obviously you're going to overwhelm it if you try and clean a massive machine with 100 litres of mix. I have a 6000 litre sprayer with 36m booms that do liquid N, so have a pig pipe capacity. 500 litres of mix normally shifts most things.
As above, 2 of the very best cleaning solutions are liquid fertiliser and glyphosate. Glyphosate started life as a cleaner - the herbicide properties were only discovered later.