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Saw that pic of missing skin ouch also say that natural stuff was sold out and so G went searching in the bus draw and found the stuff in the purple container, so he is about to use it now.
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Tell G not to drink any… it tastes terrible. 😜😁
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Vik's stuff.

"Formulated with virgin-grade 99% sulfuric acid"
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jon_d wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2023 9:10 am Vik's stuff.

"Formulated with virgin-grade 99% sulfuric acid"
Actually, if you don't add sweat to it, it won't burn the skin at the level of concentration, but it does bleach out any sun tan you might have built up over the summer.
I had a couple of customers that handled the stuff when being pumped from the ships to the fertiliser plant and they would often have white spots in different sizes on their arms and it was explained to me about the acid effects. I asked why they didn't wear long sleeved protective clothing and was told a mixture of getting hot and sweaty and the clothing holding the acid in contact with the skin, it was actually safer to wear a singlet or T shirt.
Many of the blokes who got fitting assignments at the copper smelter would tell stories of going through a few sets of clothes in a 12 hr shift, the acid would simply dissolve parts of their safety gear, but they had to wear it anyway. They would butter themselves up with skin cream stuff at each tucker break, two tins per person per aplication and the stuff was around $30 a tin ...... I did manage to score some and it was great for working with the carby soak tank, without it the kero used when washing the parts clean was potent enough to result in a few layers of skin drying out like severe sun burn and simply flaking off ..... not a pretty look :lol:

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T1 Terry wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2023 11:07 am
jon_d wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2023 9:10 am Vik's stuff.

"Formulated with virgin-grade 99% sulfuric acid"
Actually, if you don't add sweat to it, it won't burn the skin at the level of concentration, but it does bleach out any sun tan you might have built up over the summer.
I had a couple of customers that handled the stuff when being pumped from the ships to the fertiliser plant and they would often have white spots in different sizes on their arms and it was explained to me about the acid effects. I asked why they didn't wear long sleeved protective clothing and was told a mixture of getting hot and sweaty and the clothing holding the acid in contact with the skin, it was actually safer to wear a singlet or T shirt.
Many of the blokes who got fitting assignments at the copper smelter would tell stories of going through a few sets of clothes in a 12 hr shift, the acid would simply dissolve parts of their safety gear, but they had to wear it anyway. They would butter themselves up with skin cream stuff at each tucker break, two tins per person per aplication and the stuff was around $30 a tin ...... I did manage to score some and it was great for working with the carby soak tank, without it the kero used when washing the parts clean was potent enough to result in a few layers of skin drying out like severe sun burn and simply flaking off ..... not a pretty look :lol:

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Terry put a 500mm square piece of fly screen mesh on the floor of the of the shower to stop the hair.

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Wouldn’t it be easier to just dig up the body that was jammed into the drain?
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