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Is Richard (chemgeek) still around?

Yes, you should be fine. They're "Consumer Products". WHMIS (hazmat labeling) and MSDS requirements do not apply to Consumer Products. "Controlled products that are packaged as consumer products and in quantities used by the general public are exempt from WHMIS supplier label and MSDS...

Hi Deena, I've retired from Apollo Pools back in late September. I have a full time job in another industry and Apollo was more of a "part time" business, and it was taking more and more time away from family. I think service was suffering a bit because of this lack of time, I was only able...

May have jumped off the container while in transit. Look for it in the other compartments, may even be hiding inside the book.

Nope - just can't ship to the USA, due to high cost of liability insurance.

Sorry that's incorrect - Lowry & Associates in Newmarket, Ontario is the exclusive distributor for Canada, not piscines-apollo.com. So it's a Taylor agreement between themselves and Lowry. Has nothing to do with provincial or federal governments, these kits are considered "consumer products"...

Got it, it's from the book "Pool Chlorination Facts" by Lowry, seems that manufacturers mixed stearates in with the trichlor to make their tabletting equipment run faster. Stearates are a wax-like substance that are not soluble in water. Some manufacturers may still use them but most have...

It's looks like the binding agent they use when manufacturing (compressing) trichlor pucks. Stearic acid if I recall, so the stuff doesn't stick to the moulds while they're compressed into pucks. Let me find the reference in my books somewhere, I'll write back. If I recall they recommended...

What size are you looking for? 22 mL or 60 mL?

Re: Test kits in Canada I thought it may have had something to do with WHMIS labeling also.

Re: Test kits in Canada No that's incorrect. Piscines Apollo does not have the sole distributor rights for Taylor in Canada, Lowry and Associates are the master distributors for Canada. Ask the TFP guys why they are prevented from selling to Canada. I don't think it has to do entirely with...

For any Canadians reading this, Costco has "HTH Max 70" cal-hypo, 70% concentration, a 22,7 kg bucket for 69,99CDN$, it's a great deal, works out to 0,0440$ per ppm (for 10 000 liters)

The silver nitrate you're adding dropwise is reacting with the sodium chloride (salt) and produces an insoluble precipitate of silver chloride. What you're seeing is normal.

Liability insurance. We're working on it.

You can mix 3.5 mL water sample with 3.5 mL of CYA Standard Solution then proceed with the test (ie add your 7 mL R-0013). If you read 30 ppm on the view tube then there's actually 10 ppm in the pool water. What you're basically doing with this method is diluting a known standard.

Yes I have removed the restrictions from the site - thanks for clearing that up Richard.

Re: Calcium Chloride Vs. Calcium Hardness Increaser I don't think that's a fair editing job at all. User oldcarkook's answer was very informative, having spent years in that industry he had the authoritive answer. His response, and the exchanges that followed, in no way went against any forum...

Arrrgh! I know! Sorry about that, although the files were successfully moved to the new server, I'm now seeing problems with the SQL databases. I've tried contacting the web hosting company many times in the past day or so. No reply. It's been a total nightmare. I won't bore you with the...

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Grab the high resolution product picture of the (old) K-0203, the CounterLab, off of Taylor's site, you'll get the full instructions - they're displayed prominently on the faceplate of the CounterLab.

You bring the slider up to the point where the black dot just disappears. You read the CYA value at the water level.

Ask Taylor, they have the authoritative answer on leaving the pipets in the reagents. I did ask them that exact question, and about storing the reagents horizontally, a few years ago. They said in a nutshell that some reagents can deteriorate the rubber in the bulb. So that's what I do, I...

Oh that's right! Sorry! My error!

The kit comes with 22 mL reagents, you're good for 22 tests.

Try a new stirbar.

The SampleSizer saves a lot of time when measuring the volume of the water sample. You just fill a 9198 test cell with water then insert the SampleSizer in the cell. It'll displace the exact amount of water to leave either 10 or 25 mL in the cell (depending on which end of the tool was...

It's easy to over-titrate, or go past the proper endpoint (it's salmon/orange colored), not brown (mix one drop of each reagent to see). I'm now using a 25 mL water sample (instead of the 10 mL per the instructions), each drop is 80 ppm, way easier to perform the test without overtitrating.

That's because the Canada Post gateway is still hitting the firewall. Tech support says it'll be fixed "soon". It has not been a good week for the shopping cart software...

There. Fixed it. Sort of. Thre may be a delay when you click the View Basket button, the Canada Post gateway is being rejected by the new firewall, but again, it'll be fixed soon, according to Tech Support. Happy 4th of July to you, up here July 1st is Canada Day, everything's closed, the...

Most probably the phosphate buffer used in the DPD powder combined with high CH.