{"id":17700,"date":"2013-12-26T10:34:25","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T15:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=17700"},"modified":"2013-12-26T10:34:25","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T15:34:25","slug":"not-quite-clean-hydration-pack-zippers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2013\/12\/26\/not-quite-clean-hydration-pack-zippers\/","title":{"rendered":"Not-Quite-Clean Hydration Pack Zippers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/acquired_stuff\/bike_stuff\/IMG_7793.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Sweat residue on hydration pack zippers after washing because I didn't move the zippers while soaking.\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/105409-2\/IMG_7793.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I periodically wash my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deuter.com\/en_US\/backpacks.php?category=123\">Deuter<\/a> Race Air Lite hydration pack because riding causes <a title=\"Sweaty Shoulder Deposits\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2012\/06\/10\/sweaty-shoulder-deposits\/\">heavy sweat buildup on the straps<\/a> and zippers, eventually getting to the point where the zippers are hard to actuate. I washed it a few days ago by soaking it in a sink of hot water and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sodium_percarbonate\">sodium percarbonate<\/a>\u00a0(powdered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxiclean.com\/\">OxiClean<\/a>) by periodically agitating it and letting it sit overnight. This works very well, but I forgot one important step: actuating the zippers. The result is that after drying there are still some sweat deposits where the zippers had been, as seen above.<\/p>\n<p>As a result the zippers are still difficult to move in these positions, so I&#8217;ll have to soak it again another day this week. Oh well, at least its winter time and I&#8217;m not using the bag on a near daily basis as I had been during the summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I periodically wash my Deuter Race Air Lite hydration pack because riding causes heavy sweat buildup on the straps and zippers, eventually getting to the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2013\/12\/26\/not-quite-clean-hydration-pack-zippers\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Not-Quite-Clean Hydration Pack Zippers<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17701,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17700\/revisions\/17701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}