THE Random Chat Thread - AKA "The RCT" - No shirt or shoes required - Open 24 / 7

[ARC]

Good morning TreasureNet Crew.

 

[Oregon Viking]

Hope he gives you 🦀.

Hang on 🌶, that might get you one of the couch slapping.

 

[DizzyDigger]

OV...I can taste those from here......

 

[robertk]

Good Saturday morning, everyone!

 

[ToddsPoint]

Good morning!☕️

 

[pepperj]

Morning everyone

 

[pepperj]

45 id imagine would be considered speed plowing.
I once read about some cars having big issues of underbody rust, especially exhaust systems, because of salt put on roads. How common is that where you are?

On the main highways they tend to put a beet juice brine mixture down on the roads. That has been for the last 20 years.
100 liters per KM on each lane of roadway. They also mix it with road salt to wet it so it will stick to the roads.
Ontario uses approx. 1.5-2.2 million tons of salt on the public roads and the private sector uses 1.5-2.5 million tons of salt every winter.

So the secret is to buy a vehicle that is undercoated from day one, keep it undercoated every season (inspected). Then in 10-15 years it will be still drivable.

No rust protection then the life is reduced to half and it looks like hell.

 

[Chilli]

On the main highways they tend to put a beet juice brine mixture down on the roads. That has been for the last 20 years.
100 liters per KM on each lane of roadway. They also mix it with road salt to wet it so it will stick to the roads.
Ontario uses approx. 1.5-2.2 million tons of salt on the public roads and the private sector uses 1.5-2.5 million tons of salt every winter.

So the secret is to buy a vehicle that is undercoated from day one, keep it undercoated every season (inspected). Then in 10-15 years it will be still drivable.

No rust protection then the life is reduced to half and it looks like hell.

That's an incredible amount of salt that gets used. No wonder the underbodies rust.
Given the cost of the new exhaust systems on the new cars these days you'd be nuts not to undercoat it!
Interesting, never heard of the beet juice brine one before.

 

[releventchair]

Got my first Shield nickel today!
Today's hunt

Awesome!

 

[releventchair]

$4G rig.
You buy it.....
I'll break it in gently on that big old black earth shit pile I hauled this past summer.
Deal?

Had a couple of these in my maintenance schedule back when.
A team of us replaced the big toothed plates (Vs the perforated plate in many)inside one that took all I had to lift and move a single plate of while seated. Not enough room to stand unless hunched. Which isn't the way to carry near your own weight. Then they had to be shimmed and welded in the correct pattern to advance material.
The low yellow guards each end (and side) have rectangular slots protruding that are visible on the viewers side in the picture. midspan. Graphite looking blocks of soft material with T-handles to position them with fit loose in those slots. As they lubricate the rolling support of the solid bands that support the drum. Gravity feeds the blocks as they wear.

Everything wears from shake out tables to classifiers to belts to dust collectors.
Some of the hardened steel that wears tells of a lot of material run over time. Other is just sacrificial to the process and don't last long.

 

[releventchair]

Mornin all.

 

[releventchair]

That's an incredible amount of salt that gets used. No wonder the underbodies rust.
Given the cost of the new exhaust systems on the new cars these days you'd be nuts not to undercoat it!
Interesting, never heard of the beet juice brine one before.

Don't see many undercoating places anymore.
Salt isn't feeding as much until temps break the freezing mark. That suggests washing it off when above freezing.

"Rustproofing" didn't ensure door drain holes ect. were in working condition after the tarry substance was sprayed in panels.
Trapping moisture did happen in areas.
Holes and plugs were used too.
Salt in a frame hole doesn't care if the outside of the frame is tarred.
But there were cars undercoated the owners of which didn't worry about washing salt off when temps broke freezing because they were "rust proofed".
Which of course resulted in severe rusting.

We have an area of the midwest called the rust belt for multiple reasons.
One of which is salt being dumped on the roads.
Salt too when temps are low enough ; help ice harden. Home made ice cream making employs salt. (Not for flavoring.)
So when temps are cold sand gets mixed with salt. Evidenced inside wheel wells where rustproofing can get stripped in a season if enough sand is driven on.

Better to sand and salt then pack snow into ice and create inches of ice.
We been doing that on my main road as the county seems apprehensive about scraping the repaired areas resurfaced last summer. Slot car two tracks worn into the ice.
Kinda like my dirt road I maintain. L.o.l.. But on our road you can see the salt being tracked onto it at it's end at the main road. Farther with time as winter season progresses.

A co-worker and I used to build pipes for wash systems on one worksite. 2 inch by several feet long with nozzles of types and location of our choosing.
Co-worker was considering making a set of pipes to drive over in winter to wash the underside of vehicles.
Some car washes have a single at the entrance.
One of which I use and drive slow over in the newer truck.
The 2008 plow truck you step carefully on the tree-bar on the driver side to get in ; and note the flex.
Don't look at the rest. And especially underneath.

 

[oldmxrat]

Good morning

 

[AU Seeker]

That's an incredible amount of salt that gets used. No wonder the underbodies rust.
Given the cost of the new exhaust systems on the new cars these days you'd be nuts not to undercoat it!
Interesting, never heard of the beet juice brine one before.

Undercoating only protects the frame and underbody, applying it to the exhaust system is not done because it will simply burn off in short order.

 

[Evan in CA]

Good morning everybody, rain finally let off

 

[releventchair]

1920's​

During the Prohibition era, Detroit became a hub for rum-running operations, with criminal organizations like the Purple Gang smuggling large quantities of alcohol across the frozen Detroit River. Bootleggers would use boats in summer and cars in winter to cross the ice, dragging sleds full of whiskey behind. Overloaded vehicles were known to fall through the ice, but the risk was worth the reward for those who successfully smuggled contraband into the United States. The river, Lake St. Clair, and the St. Clair River accounted for 75% of all bootleg liquor smuggled into the USA during this period.

 

[releventchair]

Good morning everybody, rain finally let off

Mornin Evan!

 

[blossom]

Evening Crew xx hope you have all enjoyed your festivities xx

Went out for a few hours this morning, it will come as no surprise himself still heads out looking for Roman Coins, and I still walk away with the silver 😂, nice little short-cross one today! Xx

Thread 'Today’s Treasures!'
https://www.treasurenet.com/threads/todays-treasures.717177/

 

[Oregon Viking]

On the main highways they tend to put a beet juice brine mixture down on the roads. That has been for the last 20 years.
100 liters per KM on each lane of roadway. They also mix it with road salt to wet it so it will stick to the roads.
Ontario uses approx. 1.5-2.2 million tons of salt on the public roads and the private sector uses 1.5-2.5 million tons of salt every winter.

So the secret is to buy a vehicle that is undercoated from day one, keep it undercoated every season (inspected). Then in 10-15 years it will be still drivable.

No rust protection then the life is reduced to half and it looks like hell.

Where the hell do you get that much beet juice ? Yeh yeh..... from beets I'll hear... But imagine how many mother****in cans of beets you'd have to open !!!!!!!

enable puch notifications, had to click that.

 

[Oregon Viking]

Good afternoon !!!!!!!!!!!!!!