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AltaKnight

AltaKnight

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To support my LBC habit I'm forced to work. We do maintenance work at refineries.

We had a large incident investigation because one of our trades workers had knelt down (on the nightshift) into a puddle of oil, no harm done.

Life with an LBC is one long incident since I rarely emerge from under the car or the bonnet without a liberal application of oil, grease and dirt.
 
Hmmmm, are you environmentally safe to be on this forum?

I think that years ago, the writers of the X-Files, got the idea of the black oily stuff that oozed from the aliens directly from the ownership of British cars.
 
Geo Hahn said:
AltaKnight said:
...I rarely emerge from under the car or the bonnet without a liberal application of oil, grease and dirt.
Click to expand...

Not to mention... blood!
Click to expand...

Don't forget sweat.... and sometimes, tears.
 
I know I'm dating myself, but one weekend in the early 70's, a bunch of us went to the races. Group 44's E-type, Spitfire, and GT6 were there. Extremely quick cars, but also turned out in resplendent White and Green colors. I marveled at the audacity it took to paint the engine compartment white.
To this day, when I walk within 25 feet of a car and get grease on my hands, I'll remind my lovely darling wife, "Ya know once I saw this white Jaguar...
Incidently a few months ago I saw this same car on TV it was at the Goodwood historics with Bob Tullius driving...owned by the factory, I believe.
Take care Bob
 
I remember seeing the Group 44 XJS at Westwood (near Vancouver) - it was immaculate, gorgeous and ran out of brakes about half way through the race. Long downhill straight into a hairpin.......

Every time I spend time on this forum, I notice a few drops of oil under my monitor. Is this anything to worry about?
 
MSDS for a LBC !!.....lol

& Placards! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/angel.gif

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Great MSDS placards!
Do they make a chromed placard holder like on the big trucks? We could mount it on the back bumper so other motorists would understand all the hidden dangers
 
I delivered a lot of equipment and supplies to oil refineries in the last five years of my trucking carrer.

I've gotta tell you that those places scare the heck outta me. I can usually figure out what's going on in most any kind of business...foundrys, machine shops, assembly plants.

But those refineries are loaded with steaming pipes, gas flames, overhead obstructions, tanks, and such. I don't know what any of this stuff does...except i DO know that all of this stuff can blow up at any minute!

Then they make you really feel good when they make you wear a Nomex fire resisitant suit with a headsock and booties then ask you to drive into the belly of the beast with 13' high exhaust stacks going under all of these pipes, cables, etc. 75' long and your negotiating tight corners getting to a certain area to unload...

I'm glad I now have an office job...
 
I used to work right next door to a Mobil refinery.

Just the waste stacks used to light up the night. With some heavy cloud cover (like we commonly get this time of year), the entire area would look like one of Dante's nightmares, with the huge balls of flame turning the entire sky red-orange.

The fires were even more spectacular ... one night after work, we stood in the parking lot and watched one of the cracking towers burn to the ground. Spread little drops of hot, black oil over the entire neighborhood (including where we were standing) ... Mobil bought a lot of paint jobs that day.

One refinery employee lived to tell about seeing a pipe fitting blow off the doomed tower ... he took off running as fast as he could but the explosion blew him off his feet and gave him "road rash" from sliding along the asphalt.

Then I read in the paper about the 10,000 gallons of heated hydroflouric acid they keep on hand. Plenty to kill everyone in the city if a leak sprayed it into the air.

Scary stuff alright, and it's right in the middle of a modest city (150,000 or so).

But, they have gotten better about safety, haven't had a good fire in 15 years or so now. And I still work almost next door, although we're now 2 blocks away.

Anyway, what I meant to say ... that puddle could just as easily have been 10% hydroflouric acid. Lots more dangerous on your skin than anything that comes out of a LBC.
 
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