Cheaper than KY I suppose.

Jergens gets it done faster.

Just saying

Dufus: Good for killing wasps, too. 50/50 Dawn and water will kill them almost instantly. Does NOT work on bees.

Thank FSM for that.

Traffic moving in both directions was rerouted through on- and offramps during the bridge replacement, said Strganac, adding that motorists are expected to be able to travel on the new bridges by Thursday morning.

And I bet they were still biatching.

miss diminutive: Cheaper than KY I suppose.

They don't sell KY in gallon sizes, only the little tubes. Didn't you see Old School?

You're soaking in it.

Pjur Eros.


I mean, ....so I've heard.

That coward David Lopan: They don't sell KY in gallon sizes, only the little tubes. Didn't you see Old School?

If you called they would ship it too you in 55 gallon drums.

They would use the brand name stuff. Typical government waste. Why not use Method or Sam's? It's just as good!

Olestra



YOU'RE SITTING IN IT!

Beer. There's nothing it can't do.

pag1107: Attn: Maryland, why can't you do that for the two I-270 bridges you've been backing up traffic working on for a year and still have a year and a half to go?

I've got 4 words for you:

Paid by the hour.

Construction is second only to insurance as the most corrupt and inefficient industry in the world.

So the bridge will save commuters $12.7 million and cost over $14 million to build. Nice.

Fabric_Man: They would use the brand name stuff. Typical government waste. Why not use Method or Sam's? It's just as good!

Yep, there's no way Dawn could've been donated in exchange for free publicity. I'll bet they even bought the smallest bottles they could find at places like Neiman Marcus.

Fabric_Man: They would use the brand name stuff. Typical government waste. Why not use Method or Sam's? It's just as good!

But only Dawn can make your bridges smell like Thai Dragon Fruit.

duffblue: So the bridge will save commuters $12.7 million and cost over $14 million to build. Nice.

I assume you'd rather they use less efficient methods so that they don't save those particular costs, because ... er... well, why would you prefer that, exactly?

What the hell kind of name is Strganac? Isn't that missing a vowel or two somewhere?

Dufus: Good for killing wasps, too. 50/50 Dawn and water will kill them almost instantly. Goes NOT work on bees.

CSB:

I have an apricot tree in my backyard that was being plagued by tent caterpillars. I went out and bought some crazy expensive, super-duper, don't let your kids or pets within a mile of this stuff, if you get a droplet on your skin you will die of instant brain cancer insecticide. I hosed the little bastards down with that stuff and it didn't do a damn thing (yes, the label said it would work on that particular insect). My elderly neighbor told me to spray them with a 50/50 mix of Dawn and water. I did that, and POOF! Instant death! It killed the exposed ones and dried up the webs, killing the ones hiding inside. It was WAY cheaper, far more effective, and I didn't need a hazmat suit to use it either, which was nice. Kind of makes me wonder what the hell I'm washing my dishes in, though.

/CSB

I was wondering why the would choose Dawn (or any dish soap) over motor oil or even cooking oil, etc.

The only thing I can figure is that dish soap is cheaper then cooking oil and biodegradable unlike motor oil.

Anyone else know why dish soap would be used?

duffblue: So the bridge will save commuters $12.7 million and cost over $14 million to build. Nice.

I wonder if that $12.7 million is per year or over the life of the bridge...

If it is an annual figure, it works out to a little under $35,000 a day, which is plausible if Mesquite is a big enough town.

pedrop357: I was wondering why the would choose Dawn (or any dish soap) over motor oil or even cooking oil, etc.

The only thing I can figure is that dish soap is cheaper then cooking oil and biodegradable unlike motor oil.

Anyone else know why dish soap would be used?


Oil on Teflon beads up too much.
Soap on Teflon forms a nice laminar coating.

Used to work for a rigging company years ago. We used to use Dawn and plastic sheets to slide MRI machines down the halls of hospitals. That and we had sheets with holes in them like a giant air hockey game to float heavy stuff.

Dufus: Good for killing wasps, too. 50/50 Dawn and water will kill them almost instantly. Goes NOT work on bees.

Brake cleaner seems to do a nice job. Actually the old stuff before the feds got involved and banned it for some new crap. Still have my case of stashed NAPA Brake Cleaner sitting in the garage. I guess I can stash my incandescent light bulbs next to them now.

As an engineer working for the heavy rigging industry, I'm getting a kick and so forth.

Anyway, using soap as lubricant to move huge things isn't exactly new and exciting. We typically use Dial. You just have to make sure the weather doesn't get too cold or it could gel up and crap everything up.

Bryllcream...a little dab'll do ya.

/off my lawn

pedrop357: I was wondering why the would choose Dawn (or any dish soap) over motor oil or even cooking oil, etc.

The only thing I can figure is that dish soap is cheaper then cooking oil and biodegradable unlike motor oil.

Anyone else know why dish soap would be used?

They were hoping the homeless people would come and bathe with it afterwards.

pedrop357: I was wondering why the would choose Dawn (or any dish soap) over motor oil or even cooking oil, etc.

The only thing I can figure is that dish soap is cheaper then cooking oil and biodegradable unlike motor oil.

Anyone else know why dish soap would be used?

Maybe because it washes off without the use of an additional solvent of some kind?

So this method saves both time and money?


Yeah...it'll never be used in Illinois then. Ever.

Is there any time-lapse video or similar of a bridge slide? My cursory search on youtube shows videos of people using bridges as slip and slides during a rain storm.

IXI Jim IXI: mod3072: What the hell kind of name is Strganac? Isn't that missing a vowel or two somewhere?

He probably played in the NHL at some point.

Looks Swedish, they apparently don't believe in vowels, Obviously, this name has been Americanized.

Plexo: Used to work for a rigging company years ago. We used to use Dawn and plastic sheets to slide MRI machines down the halls of hospitals. That and we had sheets with holes in them like a giant air hockey game to float heavy stuff.

All the metal conveyers on our bottling line here at the brewery ride on Teflon under rails, and we use Dawn on them as well on the mornings to get the creaking to stop before the "premium lube" kicks in. and that stuff is pretty much the same thing except it's low foam so we don't have soap bubbles all over the thing all the time. Years before all that, When I was an industrial controls technician, a couple of times we ran out of wire snot and used Dawn instead.
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realmolo: pag1107: Attn: Maryland, why can't you do that for the two I-270 bridges you've been backing up traffic working on for a year and still have a year and a half to go?

I've got 4 words for you:

Paid by the hour.

Construction is second only to insurance as the most corrupt and inefficient industry in the world.

Doubtful; every highway construction project I've ever seen, the contractor was paid on a fixed contract negotiated ahead of time. Most of them, in fact, have penalty clauses in the contracts if they take too long to complete the work.

As for using this method to replace a bridge, TFA points out this area is a perfect situation to use this method. You need room to build the new bridge right next to the old one, reuse the old foundations, etc.

/still looks like a good idea in some situations
//printed the article to pass around my office.

8DragonFark: Anyone else know why dish soap would be used?

Because it is water-soluble, doesn't degrade the concrete, and is easily removed from the bridge afterwards? Just guessing, but I was an engineer in an earlier life.

duffblue: So the bridge will save commuters $12.7 million and cost over $14 million to build. Nice.

Am I the only one who read this as him actually saying it was a good thing? Essentially the bridge only cost 1.3 million.

/Do I still have too much faith in humanity?

But still makes for a sh**ty dishwashing liquid.

/Prefers Joy

Dahnkster: [data.whicdn.com image 500x334]

You're soaking in it.

Madge approves.

/madge it's not merely physical

Keep it greasy so it will go down easy.

I feel a lot safer about this technique after reading TFA:

There are no engineering guides to bridge slides, Strganac said. "It's kind of an art at this point."

I hope it's painterly and no impressionistic.

realmolo: pag1107: Attn: Maryland, why can't you do that for the two I-270 bridges you've been backing up traffic working on for a year and still have a year and a half to go?

I've got 4 words for you:

Paid by the hour.

Construction is second only to insurance as the most corrupt and inefficient industry in the world.

Hardly. There is usually a stipulation that the construction work gets finished by a certain date. Any delay will cost the contractor(s) penalties. At the same time, there's performance bonuses for completing ahead of schedule. Most of the delay is in the beginning when they're haggling with lawyers for NIMBYs and such-and-such-save-the-crickets groups. If there's a delay in the midst of construction, that means someone fubared the design or normal payments didn't get made. Construction companies pay their employees by the hour, but the companies get paid by the project, so the quicker they finish the project, the more they get to keep for themselves.