I will take you up on that Jason.

It's yours

What is post padding ?:) :) :)
................Dave

Geez, if we keep this up, I may make it to 4,000 posts sooner than I though :razz:

Hehe I need to work on my numbers as well :razz:

caustic soda in dry bead form is hamless ... once moisture is added (water) can react violently...... it super heats the water .... yes it it is an acid... used to raise the "ph" of drilling mud ing the oil feild... with many other uses through out industry

were did that come from sean??

one guy asked how to peal and apple and another said to put it in caustic soda and another guy said caustic soda was found in draino so i figured id used some of my expertes and throw out some more info on caustic

hahaha I love how this is the most popular thread... the only one with no real purpose! ...well barring the caustic soda thing :lol:

Jason, I did NOT see that coming! what are you santa? lol. ah wells. I wouldn't be willing to come over to ladner for it though... still studying (procrastinating) for my exams... sigh.

Hey I want to have some too.


Now I dont feel as left out

10 more posts to hit 4,000 - you've GOT to before you leave us high and dry ;)

Nick,

Tank is being picked up on Good Friday, so I'll be around regularly for at least that long. Will probably surpass 4,000 by then if I keep this up :wink:

This thread has surpased it's originally intended design life... It must be removed or replaced at this time; for your own safety.

No fair - foul - penalty - you guys waited until I was out of town for the weekend then start padding!

And padding

And padding - it's just shameful:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

It's just terrible what some people will do to add a post. :sad:

Truly, TRULY shameful :sad: :sad:

i know eh! ...yeah. okay that's all for now :biggrin:

That's wierd...cause i heard you've been padding since jr. High.



Sorry i couldn't resist.

This is "The Seinfeld Thread". A thread about nothing. :smile:

Cheers,

61 Posts when will you people stop ;)

"That's wierd...cause i heard you've been padding since jr. High."

oh... snap.

caustic soda is an Acid that's used to raise the pH of mud?? does that mean it's less acidic than the mud.. or a more alkaline acid? Oh my, hope I don't look more confused than normal.

Doug...

ps Wonder how many posts I have now.

time for a lil science boys and girls!

what is pH (i hope you know this already)? It is the "partial Hydrogen" in a solution. That means that protons aka Hydrogen ions (H+) occupying a volume of liquid. So where does H+ come from? well there are two kinds of chemicals called acids (pH less than 7) and bases (pH greater than 7). pH is different from a "concentration" (like ppm) in that it's a logarithmic function... it's backwards! so a pH of 1 is satrated with H+ and a pH of 14 (max pH) is very very low in H+. every increment of 1 is an increase tenfold in H+.

Take muriatic acid for example: HCl. when in an aqueous solution (contains water) the HCl partially breaks apart into its ions H+ and Cl-. and pH is the measure of how much H+ is in that solution. Water itself also contributes to pH, hence the neutral pH of 7.

Bases are the H+ deficient form of their acidic cousins. basically they steal H+ from the solution and therefore raise te pH.

fun times! now where was i? oh yeah, if a solution's pH is below 7 it's considered acidic. if it's at 7 its called neutral. if it's above 7 then it's called basic aka alkaline. so to answer your question, there's no such thing as an "alkaline acid". that my friend is an oxymoron!

so about caustic soda. well from a chemistry point of view that makes no sense! if anything caustic soda should drop the pH of mud (which is usually around 7 give or take a bit)

that was a fun rant.

ok the mud i was refering to is not the mud in you backyard it is "DRILLING MUD" which is used in the oil drilling industry to carry drill cuttings to the surface and to maintain an open hole.... the usual ingredents in a gel kem system are bentonite clay caustic or soda ash oh why am i bothering im the only dumb rig hand on here we also use it in our boilers to raise or maintain a ph of 10-10.5 im no derick hand just a motor hand that has to mix the stuff for my lazy derick hand!!!!!!!!:biggrin::biggrin::biggrin::biggrin::b iggrin::biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:

oh but thanks for the science class i never was that good at chemistry in school so it brought back alot of memories like how many "f" grades i got........... lol

F is for F... antastic! ... i would also accept "abulous" or "electrophillic aromatic substitution"

Hey, YOU started it there mister. (and to update, we're at 67 :D)

has any other post outside of the Proflux one in product reviews come close to this sort of activity??

Oy vey. There's a reason Seinfeld was the top rated show for so bloody long

It was a sad year when Seinfeld, Friends and Frazier all went off the air :cry: I haven't watched sitcoms since.

69:mrgreen:

Hey, thats to serious for this dumb thread. Be careful. No serious postings in a stupid thread or it will be deleted. :lol:

you'd have to be a complete nut-case to post on this thread, so i won't

:lol: :lol: :lol:

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Wow, must add one myself :scramble:

Can fat people go skinny dipping?

Nice thread name change :razz:

Although it has garnered a bit of info. We all now know what caustic soda is and how it works, we know what drilling mud is, and we know that people on canreef like to boost their numbers with useless posts :wink:

hahaha i love the title change!:biggrin:

im currently eating a pizza pop. yum.

I think it should be changed to:

"It's the thread that never ends, it goes on and on my friend! Some people TRIED deleting it not knowing what it was, and now they'll continue posting in it forever just because..... "

might be a bit long

I just had a donair.

chocolate covered almonds here