Does anybody still habitually use soap/detergent with their wfp?

The Garage
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I work for a company that still uses the golden noodle(aluminum tucker pole circa 20 years ago). It has an inline soap dispenser. We live in a low tds area (23-190) and use a basic DI system. My employer is insisting I use finish dish washing tablets in the dispenser. In my mind, adding soap to pure water, completely defeats the purpose of a pure water system. Obviously as an employee I should just do as instructed, but am I wrong that thinking it’s detrimental to good results!?

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Anyone?

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Finish is a drying agent to make water sheet and dry without spots and in the right amount ( very little) it may work well.
NO!!! I see you are saying dish washing tablets . You will need to rinse that all off

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It seems to work okay in cooler temps, we’re hanging around 90 with low humidity, stuff evaporates fast.

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I thought at first you meant finish rinse aid or jet dry

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It is the dish tablet, my employer feels since the soap is dispensed from the pencil jets and the rinse from the fan jet, they cancel each other out.

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If you wash then rinse well

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Which is what I’ve recommended. We wash and rinse in one pass, which I feel is inadequate.

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I also feel, soaping up and then spending the necessary time to rinse soap off, defeats the purpose of a pure water system, thoughts?

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I used tsp and soap on a few windows this week due to tree sap but not usually

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It does seem to be advantageous with particularly mucky windows, but I still feel a better rinse would be more better, and that the particles from soap cancel out the particle removal of a pure water system…

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… No It doesn’t defeat the purpose, it just means you have to rinse a little longer.
Soap can help with dirtier windows too.

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The whole purpose of pure water is the rinse. The water is the squeegee. It doesn’t really address the cleaning part of the process. Ok, yes, agitation with a brush.

But think of it with trad- how would you feel dipping scrubber into bucket of pure water (no soap), scrubbing, then squeegee?

That’s essentially want one is doing with WFP.

So no, doesn’t defeat purpose.

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I’m new to WFPing so I have a question. Would it still leave a residue, or no residue if you just scrub and rinse a little extra?

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If you rinse it off well there’s no residue