Cleaning Hanna Test Kit Vials..How are you doing it?

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Hello. I have several Hanna Test Kits and vials everywhere drying as I rinse them and set them out to dry after a particular test. I was thinking of just combing them all together into one group, clean them all with maybe citric acid or maybe even a dab of bleach water.

How are others cleaning them, and once clean, do you share them across different test kits?
 

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I've been keeping the vials specific to the tester and don't mix and match. I saw BRS recommended immediately rinsing with RODI water after testing and then storing them filled with RODI between tests. So far, this has worked well for me.
 

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I wash with dawn and water, rinse with ro and store filled with ro until next use. Testing with cloudy or dirty vials is a waste of time and reagents.
 

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I don’t share them, each belongs to the original test.
I’ve not used soap myself.
I rinse 10x tap water
I fold half sheet paper towel until it’s about the size of a Q-Tip.
I keep shoveling that into the vile, at least half the sheet.
I twist back and forth several times. I do the cap.
I pull out the sheet sharply.
I polish the vial and back in the box.

My vials are used once per week and I have cleaned them this way for years.

Maybe something in this rant that might help.
 

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I immediately rinse them out with ro water, dry them with paper towel and store them with the caps just backed off so air can get in.
I store them with their respective test kits so they are always used for the same test. Right or wrong I don't know but my tests are consistent and it's really the consistency I'm most concerned with.
 

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I don’t share them, each belongs to the original test.
I’ve not used soap myself.
I rinse 10x tap water
I fold half sheet paper towel until it’s about the size of a Q-Tip.
I keep shoveling that into the vile, at least half the sheet.
I twist back and forth several times. I do the cap.
I pull out the sheet sharply.
I polish the vial and back in the box.

My vials are used once per week and I have cleaned them this way for years.

Maybe something in this rant that might help.
I do the exact same thing. Before I had Hannah checkers I used the same cleaning process for my salifert kits
 

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I’ve just dumped them, hose the out using rodi in a squirt bottle, wipe down the outside with a towel and air dry on this baby bottle rack. 0 issues for me…I think lol

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After use...
Rinse:
3-4 times with tap water (the cap too)
3-4 times with RO...
Fill them with RO...
Before test: rinse 1-2 times with tank water.
 

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I've been keeping the vials specific to the tester and don't mix and match. I saw BRS recommended immediately rinsing with RODI water after testing and then storing them filled with RODI between tests. So far, this has worked well for me.
I also do this and it works very well.
 

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