Work Query

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Customer: Can you design a wash that uses acid instead of detergent to clean the trucks?
Me: sure! What sort of acid is it?
Customer: Hydrofluoric acid
Me: ...

Comments

[damienps.livejournal.com]

Fun . . . .

[azhdragon.livejournal.com]

short answer: "No"
long answer: "Absolutely NO."

[stoda.livejournal.com]

Wow. Uhm. That's... one way to get 'em really very clean.

[mortonfox.livejournal.com]

Maybe the customer was thinking about dissolving the truck instead of cleaning it.

[kreggan.livejournal.com]

Hm, I remember having a bottle of that in the cellar for a while..

Sure you could do it.

[chriswheeler.livejournal.com]

It'd just have to be the biggest Hazmat fume hood ever, controled from a hermaticly sealed bunker with an independant air supply. Trucks would be prepped (Bagging the engine and cabin and blocking all intake and exhausts)and driven onto a huge conveyer belt, which would deliver the truck to the wash cell, which would be then sealed and then the operator would operate the wash from the remote station in the previously mentioned bunker. The truck would then be rinsed with neutraliser and then once more with water. The effluent and gasses would be captured and processed by treatment plants that would make a uranium processing plant jealous and probably need a nuke plant of its own to drive it(not included in the price)

Sure you could probably knock up a prototype under 100 Mil no worries.

Or he could just buy new trucks.

[arcturax.livejournal.com]

How many bodies did this truck contain?

[marmoe.livejournal.com]

Luckily I never had to deal with hydrofluoric acid. I have only seen the precautions others would take who had to use it. That stuff is NASTY all caps. Get it onto your skin and it can eat to the bone. Get a bit more and you don't even have to worry about that anymore. YIKES.

What was that guy thinking???

[tiado-ab.livejournal.com]

That's some pretty strong stuff, there wouldn't be a truck left after using Hydrofluoric Acid.

[ursuscal.livejournal.com]

Jesus! Hydrofluoric acid is probably the strongest acid around -- it even eats glass. Who would want to put that on a vehicle???

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

"Sure, if you don't mind not having a truck afterwards. Or a truck wash. Or possibly your life."