and the fact ammonia acts like acid to metal so is this a plastic or ceremic engine so it doesn't fall apart in a short time and ammonia also forms crystals like sugar so will the engine freeze up from build up of it on surfaces of the inside of it. Yeah not the brightest plan to be tried. Maybe they should find someone that has worked with it like etching circuit boards where their is a crust on the plastic barrels if some spills some and it's like sugar all crusty. Also if it leaks you better move up since it'll choke you to death dispacing the air in your lungs heavy gas vapor and your eyes will water so much blinding you from finding escape route till you get into ventilation and cough it out of your lungs so real air can get in.
Well said. And it sounds like an especially shitty way to die.
That gas was because the belt on the exhaust fan snapped like a car belt and the etcher had been releasing gas as always it's not a sealed system and unlike usual the gas just built up. My boss was so pissed, I got a large pedistal fan like 50 lbs and the wall outlet was 10 feet into the gassed area and I hooked up an extension cord and just ran to the outlet and plugged it in and ran out. It was worse when I spilled some fresh on the floor, almost passed out cleaning it up. I also watched frustrated as the owner my manager and the engineer tried to fix the auto pump that pumped the stuff into the etcher tank. It works like a toilet float but not an arm but rides on a metal rod and it was covered with a crust of etch and copper. In the shop it's go go go but they were there for 3 hrs, I just pushed politely past them and they were so mad when I reached into the machine with my bare hands and pushed the float forcefully down breaking off all the etch in a 130 degree tank. I also one time when the treater "makes water clean enough to go back out of the factory with everything like acid caustic and metals removed from it" overflowed and low percentage like 2% acid liquid with some copper and lead like super small amounts, flooded the room one time, everyones looking for rubber wader to the knee boots but they all leaked to were like size 8 means way to small. Me I just walked to the door way excuse me, kicked my shoe off, removed socks, and pulled pants up to knees. The shit will eat holes when dried in clothing but wet not a problem. I just walking into barefoot into a foot of this shit and plugged in sump and then carried it to our engineer who him and the boss and owner had been talking and planning for over an hour while the tank overflowed and the electroplating lines were off since they constantly fill the tank with rinse runoff. I was the lowest paid there and would do obvious things to get shit working while the highest paid would talk about it. I never got written up but did get WTF were you thinking many times for this stuff but saved the company 1000's by doing it.
You crazy nut. I hope you got a raise at least!
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