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rjackson wrote:Perhaps Caribe can explain why.

That sir would be the Eyring equation. The rates of chemical reactions (which you are trying to avoid) are directly dependent on temperature.

It's nice to have a chemist around to 'splain stuff.

enoch308 wrote:It's nice to have a chemist around to 'splain stuff.

+1

Of course, if I hadn't attended so many concerts in the 70s...

Go to the hardware store, plumbing section, and get a T connector and a hose adapter that will fit the T. Attach the hose connector to the side branch of the T. Attach your hose and turn it on. Feed your rope through the straight branch of the T.

kato wrote:Go to the hardware store, plumbing section, and get a T connector and a hose adapter that will fit the T. Attach the hose connector to the side branch of the T. Attach your hose and turn it on. Feed your rope through the straight branch of the T.

another way of saying "apply water"

i gotta rope washer from SMC a few years back. I just use water but it cleans pretty well

toad857 wrote:

kato wrote:...T connector...

another way of saying "apply water"

Actually what you should have said was, another way of saying "apply a continuous stream of water at standard household pressure, annularly around the rope and progressively along the rope for its entire length."

But my original comment was not the "what" but the "how".

kato wrote:"apply a continuous stream of water at standard household pressure, annularly around the rope and progressively along the rope for its entire length."

another way of saying "apply water"

enoch308 wrote:It's nice to have a chemist around to 'splain stuff.

Chemists are indeed the finest quality people to be sure. In fact, I propose the world should be run by chemists, starting......now.

id rather see the world run by dogs or pigs than by any kind of human.