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Re: Add Fizz to Stripping

To: gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu (W. Ray Gibbons)
Subject: Re: Add Fizz to Stripping
From: Roland Dudley <cobra@cdc.hp.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 94 10:10:48 PST
> 
> The alloy may be the same.  At the time your car was built, weren't the
> english still hammering cars out of bits of aluminium from the wings of
> downed aircraft?  As you strip your car, watch for "no step" stencils. 

What!!??  You mean I may be driving around in the remnants of an ME109?

Well, at least not the remnants of a Volvo.


> Of course, there's always the possibility of a chemical reaction, in
> which the hot NaHCO3 solution reacts with the aluminum, turning Roland's
> Snake into a sort of Roland's Rolaid. 
> 
> At least the Rolaid transformation should eliminate the snake's gas
> problems. 

But not necessarily mine.  Buuuraaap.

Roland


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