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Re: Bob_cassette_rewinder

#11

Don’t use rinse aid products, some have been found to damage the lining of your intestines at extremely low concentrations. Personally i never even noticed a difference when i did use them. https://www.aaaai.org/tools-for-the-public/latest-research-s... .

This article is about rinse aids used on commercial dishwashers. Do rinse aids sold for domestic dishwashers contain the same stuff?

Re: Bob_cassette_rewinder

#12
Shout out here for the youtube channel he mentions turned him onto the bob.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVup5ya0WVQ / https://www.youtube.com/user/Techmoan

Mat/Techmoan has a perfectly eclectic mix of useful current generation hardware reviews (with his reviews skewed to things which Work Well, are well built and resilient vs fancy features) and nostalgic reviews of electronics (sometimes of things you never knew you should be nostalgic about!). I love his channels style as well, bit of funny, lots of facts, not too technically dense, lots of fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0y1pUtPGQk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN_XeVSKqSY

Great videos.

Re: Bob_cassette_rewinder

#13

Don’t use rinse aid products, some have been found to damage the lining of your intestines at extremely low concentrations. Personally i never even noticed a difference when i did use them. https://www.aaaai.org/tools-for-the-public/latest-research-s... .

You can make your own rinse aid, just use a bit of citric acid (to chelate metal ions to soften the water), a dash of EDTA (also a chelator), and a mild surfactant.

Re: Bob_cassette_rewinder

#14

Don’t use rinse aid products, some have been found to damage the lining of your intestines at extremely low concentrations. Personally i never even noticed a difference when i did use them. https://www.aaaai.org/tools-for-the-public/latest-research-s... .

This article is about rinse aids used on commercial dishwashers. Do rinse aids sold for domestic dishwashers contain the same stuff?

Yes, it is. And it is assumed to be safe in the concentrations used. This finding has not yet been confirmed in real studies on humans, only on tissue models.

I just checked, and my rinse aid has 0.2% of ethoxylated alcohols. So this would be around 500 times dilution already, and the rinse aid is further diluted by about 100x by the dishwasher. The article found some effects at 1:20000 dilution.

So I think that it might be concerning, but not too alarming.

Re: Bob_cassette_rewinder

#15

Don’t use rinse aid products, some have been found to damage the lining of your intestines at extremely low concentrations. Personally i never even noticed a difference when i did use them. https://www.aaaai.org/tools-for-the-public/latest-research-s... .

This article is about rinse aids used on commercial dishwashers. Do rinse aids sold for domestic dishwashers contain the same stuff?

Yeah it would suck if it ended up being really harmful because alcohol ethoxylates are in way more stuff than rinse aids.

https://www.ewg.org/guides/substances/16368-ALCOHOLETHOXYLAT...

Re: Bob_cassette_rewinder

#16

Shout out here for the youtube channel he mentions turned him onto the bob. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVup5ya0WVQ / https://www.youtube.com/user/Techmoan Mat/Techmoan has a perfectly eclectic mix of useful current generation hardware reviews (with his reviews skewed to things which Work Well, are well built and resilient vs fancy features) and nostalgic reviews of electronics (sometimes of things you never knew…

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Re: Bob_cassette_rewinder

#17

The more I think of it, the more I can draw parallel between Bob cassettes and those overpriced DRM-enabled inkjet cartridges, often costing more than the printer itself. More than two decades ago, this is the first publicly documented attempt at hacking printer DRM - indeed, also accomplished with EEPROMs in the cartridges: https://eddiem.com/photo/CIS/inkchip/chip.html I thought the GUID was put in the cartridge to…

If hacking cartridges becomes popular enough that it impacts their cartridge sales, they might put out a firmware update that does just that, but it looks like they went with the "lazy option" first?

Re: Bob_cassette_rewinder

#19

Don’t use rinse aid products, some have been found to damage the lining of your intestines at extremely low concentrations. Personally i never even noticed a difference when i did use them. https://www.aaaai.org/tools-for-the-public/latest-research-s... .

Personally i never even noticed a difference when i did use them

I always thought rinse aid was only needed if you have hard water. We have pretty soft water and like you, I found that rinse aid made no difference at all in drying performance or preventing water spots (we have no water spots even without rinse aid).

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