Trichlorethylene cleaning fluid

[VicMallows]

Re: Wasbenzine

Sorry if I may have confused the thread by replying on Trichloethylene, when I was refering (in context of fire-extinguishers) to CarbonTetraChloride. I wouldn't be spraying Trich on any fire!.

Just proves be wary of all you read in forums!

Vic

 

[Anonymous]

Vic, I thought that I was alone...and there is a thriving community of anti-0870s. That's possibly the most useful website I'm bookmarked this year, many thanks. What amazes me is that there isn't a national outcry and boycott of firms who use 0870 numbers, keeping you waiting on their extended menu systems while actually earning from their customers who are forced to communicate with them that way as they are given no alternative. On the whole, if they won't give me a proper landline number, I won't do business with them. I will accept a normal mobile, of course, if it's that sort of business and if there is an ordinary landline number where you can leave a message. I will not pay my suppliers for their privilege of speaking to me, their prospective customer, or taking my order. It is worse than a cheek, it is an outrage and they should be obliged by law to make it clear that they are taking a cut of the phone call cost every time you call them.

 

[Cutter]

It was used as an anaesthetic - not popular as it was quite irritant and potentially hepatotoxic. Better agents came along. Also supplies kept disappearing as it was such a good de-greasing agent. I had the last three bottles from theatre in 1978 and had one until recently until I felt it should be disposed of. Like an idiot I tried to get rid of it legally - what a fuss.....The Council didnt want to know and wanted large ££ to dispose of it. Dilution in midchannel might have been easier if less ecologically sound.
Whilst we are on the subject of degreasing agents - is it just an urban myth that coke was originally developed as a degreasing agent for the aircraft industry? and that it was so toxic you had to suit up to use it. Probably a load of rubbish but it has been floating around in the hindbrain for years. ps never drink the stuff.

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the background on the medical use. a highly appropriate addition to any yacht's manifest, then, given the dual purposes of cleaning and crew control /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

I never heard about Coke being used as a degreaser but it does contain phosphoric acid which is used as a rust-prevention treatment. I believe that when originally launched it contained a small amount of cocaine and that people literally became addicted to it - don't know how true that is. Today, of course, it contains a reasonable belt of caffeine.

 

[Piers]

Re: 0870

Having checked with my company's BT Projects department, I find the 0870 number user gets 1.5 pence per min for each incoming call. Hm. And as in the case of many types of numbers, when crosing between providers, additional charges are made. Hence, we stick to BT and make extensive use of their many discount structures....

 

[Anonymous]

Re: 0870

Part of this is a matter of principle, part cost and in part it says something about the attitude of a company toward its customers. To deliberately set out to make a profit from customers who are phoning for normal business matters smells of 'rotten thinking' that probably permeates through the whole organisation. It's best to stay clear of such companies, in my view, because you will probably be disappointed in the overall service you get.

Premium rate numbers for specialist support beyond the 'call of duty' is a different matter provided it is all up front and clear from the outset. But 0870 numbers are underhand.

 

[Piers]

Re: 0870

Agreed.