Rid-O-Rust - Info and Dosage Calculator |
How Do Rid O' Rust Formulas Work to Prevent Rust Stains?Preventing stains before they cover your walks, siding, plants, and lawn furnature is KEY. With the Rid O'Rust product line, this is a very simple and inexpensive process. The plusses of prevention include:
- No need to repaint every year
- Ugly stains won't form on your walks and plants
- Mineral deposits and scaling won't form on your sprinkler system, ensuring longer system life
- You can use free well water for irrigation as opposed to expensive municipal water
- You can fertilize with GrassSoGreen, while you prevent stains
The Low Down: How Does It Work?The Rid O'Rust Formula products are a family of "chelating" chemicals. Each is specific to certain well water conditions and applications; Formula 1000 is used for "acidic" well water and Formula 2000 for "hard" well water, for instance. These chelating chemicals have in common that if they can attach themselves to the ferrous iron in the well water before it meets oxygen at the sprinkler head, the iron will chelate or bind up so that it will not combine with oxygen. In effect, we neutralize the iron, but do not remove it!
Dosage Calculator
Mixing ChartsUse these mixing charts to determine how much Rid O'Rust Formula to mix with water in your feed tank. Please contact us if you have any questions - Lubee's Irrigation - 352-683-3582 Mon-Fri 9-5 EST.
As an alternative, the Online Dosage Calculator may be used to calculate dosage.
Important: The charts are based on (A) a 30 gallon feed tank, and (B) a 25 gallon per minute flow rate for the irrigation system. If your particular application has a different tank size or flow rate, the dosage figure must be adjusted. If you do not know your sprinkler system flow rate, you can approximate it by determining the number of sprinkler heads on your largest zone and multiplying by 3 ( Number of heads x an average of 3.0 gpm = Total gpm). Please note that Formula 500 is presented in quarts. All other Formulas are presented in gallons.
| Quarts of Formula 500 to be Added to Feed Tank |
| PPM of Iron |
Feed Rate of Feeder System |
| |
5 gal. per day
(.21 gal per hour) |
10 gal. per day
(.42 gal. per hour) |
24 gal. per day
(one gal. per hour) |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 |
2.0
3.5
5.25
7.25
9.0
10.75
12.50
14.25
16.50
18.0 |
1.0
1.75
2.75
3.75
4.5
5.5
6.25
7.25
8.25
9.0 |
.5
.75
1.25
1.5
2.0
2.25
2.75
3.0
3.5
4.0 | |
Gallons of Formula 300, Formula 1000
and Formula 2000 to be Added to Feed Tank |
| PPM of Iron |
Feed Rate of Feeder System |
| |
5 gal. per day
(.21 gal per hour) |
10 gal. per day
(.42 gal. per hour) |
24 gal. per day
(one gal. per hour) |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 |
2.0
3.5
5.25
7.25
9.0
10.75
12.50
14.25
16.50
18.0 |
1.0
1.75
2.75
3.75
4.5
5.5
6.25
7.25
8.25
9.0 |
.5
.75
1.25
1.5
2.0
2.25
2.75
3.0
3.5
4.0 | |
Charts based on 25 gallon per minute flow rate for irrigation system. Adjust proportionately if your rate is different. Cut dosage by 1/2 if using a 15 gallon tank.
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