Road salt and car rust.
Jan 22nd 2015, 9:47 pm
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Re: Road salt and car rust.
If you'd listened to the science teacher when you were a toddler, you'd know that Mr. Fahrenheit based his zero point on the lowest temperature he could manufacture in his lab, which was the freezing point of a saturated NaCl (brine) solution.
0 degrees F = -17.8 degrees C.
Below that salt is useless.
0 degrees F = -17.8 degrees C.
Below that salt is useless.
Jan 22nd 2015, 10:49 pm
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Jan 23rd 2015, 2:05 am
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Re: Road salt and car rust.
I do agree with Novo on this point. We had friends who came to Alberta at the same time as we did , but later they went to the US. People there, particularly in the mid /southern states, remarked on the lack of rust on their much older car ( 1957 ). It was of course because at that time no salt was used in Alberta, because it was ineffective in the lower temperatures which were normal through .out the winter
Jan 23rd 2015, 2:19 am
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Shard recently said that you are a poster who commands respect. I agree with him.
MarkkG? Less so. He's a bit of a twat.
Jan 23rd 2015, 2:32 am
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I have never found Novo to be rude. Perhaps, strong in his opinions with some educational input ( to which he is entitled} and I for one appreciate that as I too am another strong minded person with my own opinions. If you can not accept and deal with opinions contrary to yours , I feel sorry for you.
Jan 23rd 2015, 2:46 am
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I believe Britain switched to Celcius around the end of the Stone Age. The only mention of Fahrenheit I remember from school was when the teacher briefly mentioned there was some weird old temperature scale that a few funny foreign countries still used.
Jan 24th 2015, 6:04 am
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Re: Road salt and car rust.
We get a car wash seasons pass in the winter. Petro Canada sells them at $180 for 95 washes in 95 days. (Limit 1 wash per day.)
The SuperWorks (highest level) wash you can get for $9 per wash if you load up a reloadable card (otherwise about $14 at the pump), so that makes your break even point $180/9=20 washes... or one wash every 4-5 days.
We split the card with our neighbour and pass it back and forth every 3 days. We both have two cars, so we average usually 4-5 washes every week... we have already passed 20 washes in about 30 days, so washes for the next two months are effectively free.
Not a bad way to spend the money. Keeps the cars clean as they are regularly going through the wash, keeps the salt off, keeps the undersides rinsed. Works for us.
The SuperWorks (highest level) wash you can get for $9 per wash if you load up a reloadable card (otherwise about $14 at the pump), so that makes your break even point $180/9=20 washes... or one wash every 4-5 days.
We split the card with our neighbour and pass it back and forth every 3 days. We both have two cars, so we average usually 4-5 washes every week... we have already passed 20 washes in about 30 days, so washes for the next two months are effectively free.
Not a bad way to spend the money. Keeps the cars clean as they are regularly going through the wash, keeps the salt off, keeps the undersides rinsed. Works for us.
We only have 1 option and it's not the greatest car wash and a bit over priced.
Quick Wash is 12
Super is 14
Ultra is 17
They also have 3 coin bays, where you wash yourself, we use this one normally, but can't get a super good clean, but it gets the stuff off.
$2 gets you 3 minutes, average to soap, clean, and rinse takes about 6 to 8 dollars.
Jan 25th 2015, 6:10 am
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Re: Road salt and car rust.
If you'd listened to the science teacher when you were a toddler, you'd know that Mr. Fahrenheit based his zero point on the lowest temperature he could manufacture in his lab, which was the freezing point of a saturated NaCl (brine) solution.
0 degrees F = -17.8 degrees C.
Below that salt is useless.
0 degrees F = -17.8 degrees C.
Below that salt is useless.
Jan 25th 2015, 6:50 pm
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Re: Road salt and car rust.
I've been looking for something like that, thx!
Jan 26th 2015, 1:20 am
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Re: Road salt and car rust.
A man came yesterday to sell us a new furnace. He spoke in Fahrenheit but translated seamlessly on request. As with building materials, you have to know both systems here; one to use day-to-day, one to tell the government you use day-to-day. And, now that I think of it, he measured everything; ductwork, pipe runs, required btus, in imperial. All the people who came to quote did; if there's a French Thermal Unit or an EUTU, it seems no one uses it here.
Jan 26th 2015, 2:31 am
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Re: Road salt and car rust.
A man came yesterday to sell us a new furnace. He spoke in Fahrenheit but translated seamlessly on request. As with building materials, you have to know both systems here; one to use day-to-day, one to tell the government you use day-to-day. And, now that I think of it, he measured everything; ductwork, pipe runs, required btus, in imperial. All the people who came to quote did; if there's a French Thermal Unit or an EUTU, it seems no one uses it here.
But even the machines in Canada are bilingual: my outdoor thermometer made a recent unilateral declaration of independence from the corrupt Celsius system (not as the well educated poster from Saskatoon suggested the Celcius system).
It decided all by itself to display temperatures in Fahrenheit for the wintertime.
I think this may have resulted from a reluctance to wear out its minus sign.
Jan 26th 2015, 1:54 pm
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Re: Road salt and car rust.
Canada is, as you know well, bilingual. It's only a matter of time before Ontario, for example, establishes an Imperial School Board and a Metric one. This would be an improvement on the current nonsense.
But even the machines in Canada are bilingual: my outdoor thermometer made a recent unilateral declaration of independence from the corrupt Celsius system (not as the well educated poster from Saskatoon suggested the Celcius system).
It decided all by itself to display temperatures in Fahrenheit for the wintertime.
I think this may have resulted from a reluctance to wear out its minus sign.
But even the machines in Canada are bilingual: my outdoor thermometer made a recent unilateral declaration of independence from the corrupt Celsius system (not as the well educated poster from Saskatoon suggested the Celcius system).
It decided all by itself to display temperatures in Fahrenheit for the wintertime.
I think this may have resulted from a reluctance to wear out its minus sign.
Jan 26th 2015, 4:48 pm
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Re: Road salt and car rust.
My car can do C and F for the temp display, but can't do MPG only Liters per 100 km which is annoying.
