Dialed Over
I just got back from the spa capitol of the world where I did a little bathing in mud and a little swimming in rain. It was fantastic. After a little "Indian gaming" as the natives like to call it, we had a lovely drive home during which the Colonel, for some random (and appreciated) reason, told me a childhood story about when he got to ride along on a liquid wax delivery trip in his friends grandfathers tanker truck. Don't ask because I don't know. What I do know is that on said trip, the sometimes-gasoline-truck-driving-grandpa told him what to do if the big tank gets punctured and fuel, as in expensive gasoline, starts to leak out.
Rub a bar of soap over it.
It will stop the leak. I can't find any official answer as to why this works, but according to my story teller, it's a little something like oil and water not mixing.
I hear bubble gum works well too.
Happy Birthday Colonel Angus!
3 comments:
Polar Substances:
Water is a polar substance—each molecule is similar to a magnet. One end of the molecule has a partial positive charge, and the other end has a partial negative charge. The materials that dissolve in water are also polar, like salt.
Nonpolar Substances:
Some things, like gasoline, don’t dissolve in water. Gasoline is nonpolar. The molecules are not like magnets, they are balanced.
Nonpolar liquids, like oil, will dissolve nonpolar substances, like grease, fat, spruce pitch, and some plastics.
One end of a soap molecule is polar. The other end is nonpolar. Allowing it to dissolve easily in water and not so well in gasoline. Ever try to wash gas off of your hands with regular bar soap?
Another trick from the colonel:
If you get oil or gas on your hands and don't have any citris goo around. Find some sand fine sand, kitty litter or better yet, saw dust. And Rub it all over. Yah baby just like that!
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I said Pole!
har, you'd be surprised how many fuel tanks on Nicaraguan cars have soap rubbed on them... people even argue about which brand of soap works best...
okay. I'm starting to sound like Yakov Smirnof... "...in US fuel tank fixed with soap, in Nicaragua fuel tank MADE of soap..."
I'm imagining Cuba right now.
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