blake in spokane
Hot Rolled
- Joined
- Jan 11, 2008
- Location
- spokane
Anyone have a good homemade hot tank solution. Small parts 5gal.bucket. Also a paint stripper paste/gel.
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Anyone have a good homemade hot tank solution. Small parts 5gal.bucket. Also a paint stripper paste/gel.
Both will remove paint and grease and are much safer than lye.
What is unsafe about lye? Yeah, it will dissolve your skin if you leave it there long enough, but so will Coca Cola. I've been up to my armpits in the stuff and got high concentrations in my eyes before. Really wasn't that bad. Lye is pretty safe compared to most other chemicals IMO.
I count you a brighter guy than average.. but "What is unsafe about lye?" Must never have been exposed to serious STRONG Lye, then?
Mind, our outfit used it by the CONEX container, 100%, "Anhydrous" technical grade flake, mixed with "just enough" water to fast-strip CO2 molecules from high pressure air, so about as concentrated a slurry as could be mixed and still be pumped @ 5 HP.
Side-effects do tend to bias a body. Dissolve rubber sandals, combat boots, skin, muscle, dead animals etc. before you know it has even started.
And you do have me wondering just what it is you consider "most other chemicals"?
Pure isn't the issue. It's "concentration".
2 tsp per gallon - fine... Mix 30lb with 5 gallons of water and stick you arm in that. See what's left after 30 seconds.
How much per gallon are you putting in?
What is unsafe about lye? Yeah, it will dissolve your skin if you leave it there long enough, but so will Coca Cola. I've been up to my armpits in the stuff and got high concentrations in my eyes before. Really wasn't that bad. Lye is pretty safe compared to most other chemicals IMO.
The strongest caustic solution (lye) you can buy is 50% and it is a pain to deal with because it freezes at 68F. We use caustic in the waste treatment business because nearly every waste stream has low pH and we need to bring it up. I have had a drum of 25% or 50% caustic on every job I've done in the past 15 years. It is very nasty if you get it on your skin it burns like hell, and get it in your eye you will be blind. 25% caustic doesn't freeze down to about 0F so is much easier to work with.
What is unsafe about lye?
To paraphase that laser safety sign:
DO NOT PUT LYE SOLUTION IN REMAINING EYE
Do you know what this "-" means? As in "minus 68 degrees"? Duhhhhhhhhhh
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Well visiting an old thread, and am wondering if anyone has any real experience with the ZEP hot tank solution.
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