mangocrazy
Italian V-twin nutjob
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As a precaution, I'll mix up a dilute solution of citric acid and have it close by. But, as Julian has said, it's sold for the purpose of cleaning drains, so...
Yes, but we're not using acid, we're using a strong alkali that has, as one of its uses, drain cleaning.try poring that lay bare acid down the drains not sure if I've spelled it correctly used buy it from Cannings once poured that down drain geez it bubbles up from the grates for ages you would get shot if you got caught though I use to use it for decroming taps years ago
Yup that was what I was asking, and thank you.Not sure I full understand your question, but...
If you're asking what I do if it gets on me, wash with running water until the flesh stops feeling soapy.
I've used vinegar before when I've messed up more but then you stink of vinegar.
Who knows what I'd do if I got it in my eye. Same I guess.
Disposal isn't really applicable to me, as I'm trying to retain it. It gets used up by neutralisation and sapponification. If neither of those has happened, it's still good for me and I'm not wanting to get rid of it.
But...
If I did, remember they sell it domestically for the very purpose of tipping down drains. I mean people sell it and other people buy it for the sole purpose of getting home and tipping it down the drain.
Always just burnt the crap out of pipes.
I buy NaOH for somthing else in 25kg sacks. Sometimes a couple at a time. Enough to sapponify most of the village occupants on one go...
If I were doing it id just throw in as much as I could get to dissolve.
Be aware, if you get it in your eye, you will be lucky to keep that eye. If you get it on your flesh, it will burn, slowly enough that you won't really notice. When you try to wash it off it will feel soapy. That will be the fats in your flesh that it's turned to soap.
If you throw a load into a plastic container, it will sink to the bottom, where, if undisturbed, it will dissolve, exothermically, and melt it's way through the plastic.
It's great stuff. Just don't think because you can buy it in Wilko's off the shelf that it's not vicious.
Thanks for the rubber bung link - I've used the ones with holes in for making wine before now..."Enveloping them in a pall of acrid two-stroke smoke is probably not the best way to achieve this.." Ah bliss
Have a look for some rubber bungs to fit tight into the headers and seal them.. Put some plastic bags around the header pipes and tie wrap them to the pipes as insurance. Pour a caustic solution (I'd use 1/2 kg per 4 litres water- preferably hot into them and leave for a day, lift the foul water drain cover and tip down, flush the bog. Flush the pipes with cold water and see what they are like inside. Repeat as necessary.
The ones without the holes
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I'll be wearing a Draeger chemical half mask at all times when handling the dry powder.Oh yeah, i forgot -
When you pour it out, the dust that comes off it. If you breath it in, this is kind of what happens to your lungs -
That video is KOH. NaOH is nastier when you get it on your flesh, but KOH is dustier when you pour it. Even without obvious contact, if you pour a sack or two of KOH in an indoor space, you can feel it start to prickle you from the dust in the air.
Have you seen the pics above? It's not just the silencer, it's the whole one piece exhaust. There's very little that won't get coverage if it's suspended horizontally. Plus it makes it much easier to manage. And with it getting heat input from below with the plumber's torch, the solution will be active and moving around in the exhaust.Only a rubber bung in the header and put the pipe vertical. Even better make a plate to seal the header flange and bolt it up.
I would not expect full coverage with the pipe "horizontal" and it's easier to control if only one opening.
On four-strokes, yes. I don't believe that LC exhausts have any such hole. If it does, a blob of weld will sort that out temporarily.Many exhausts have a tiny hole at the lowest point to drain off condensated water that collects in the pipe. If yours does and you hold them horizontal they'll drain out.
My only concern (similar to that with torching the pipes to burn off the oily residue) is the smoke it produces in a residential neighbourhood. Did it produce a lot of oily smoke?I used to clean out the TZ350 & IT175 pipes removing the silencer, by pouring a bit of petrol into the expansion and lighting it.
Once it burnt out, bung up the cylinder end, stand them up right (tied to the garden fence) pour in the caustic soda supersaturated mix I made in a bucket.
Leave overnight to soak, then pour the stuff down the drains and stick the garden hose to flush through.
Tip out and then get the pipe back on the bike, start and get it good and hot.
The detachable silencers I used to just chuck any wadding left and roast the perforated tube in the coal fire/or blowlamp and repack with fresh wadding.
My mate Paul's LC, I took the baffles out, roasted them with the blowlamp, treated the rest as per above.
Oh yeah, i forgot -
When you pour it out, the dust that comes off it. If you breath it in, this is kind of what happens to your lungs -
That video is KOH. NaOH is nastier when you get it on your flesh, but KOH is dustier when you pour it. Even without obvious contact, if you pour a sack or two of KOH in an indoor space, you can feel it start to prickle you from the dust in the air.
thats how ive done a couple, created a pulse jetSounds stupid but the best way to de coke them is take them off the bike and put a torch up them and set the guts on fire. REME mechanic showed me that one.