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[nibot]

I am entertaining myself by alternately pouring acids and bases down the sink, in an attempt to unclog it.

It's surprisingly exciting!

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[roxymartini.livejournal.com]

does that work if your sink is full of hair?

ick ick ick.

[nibot.livejournal.com]

It doesn't seem to have worked very well here, though at first it looked promising...

[janviere.livejournal.com]

I've had good luck with chopsticks to clean hair/fur/slime out of at least the upper sections of drains.

[feralbirdgirl.livejournal.com]

yum. any advice for furballs?

[yami-mcmoots.livejournal.com]

It would be way more fun if you could run a caliper log of your sink after each pour.

[nibot.livejournal.com]

What's that?

[yami-mcmoots.livejournal.com]

It's a little stick with spring-loaded flappy arms on it, used to measure the internal diameter of a well. I don't know if they make them small enough for household plubming...

[shamster.livejournal.com]

from my own experiments the best and only thing that works is to use one of those plumbing snakes with the grabby bit at the tip of it to grab fur and greasy gunk. Usually you can just unscrew the little U-shaped part directly under the sink and that will have a lot of the build-up caught right there.

[sivart13.livejournal.com]

won't that rot your pipes out?

[nibot.livejournal.com]

Just baking soda and vinegar.

proportionate intelligence of a spider

[lert.livejournal.com]

My all-time favorite Spiderman strip (which a 1-minute GIS doesn't turn up) ran like this:
panel one: "The poison is acidic, so the antidote must be a base!"
panel two: (Peter Parker mixing chemicals together)
panel three: "Good thing I majored in science!"

[gaal.livejournal.com]

That never worked for me.

Of course, I was in a hurry, so I just poured table salt in.

chemistry humor

[nibot.livejournal.com]

heh!

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't know if it actually works, but I have done the same in our "science" lab, pouring first some baking soda, some water, then vinegar. It is entertaining.

A few weeks ago I was charged with emptying out the chemical shelf. As I poured each succeeding thing down the drain I really was chagrined at how NOTHINGlike my memory of all those chemicals was. I was certain that I was causing a fire or violent reaction somewhere down below. Perhaps there is some giant cess pool under the school where ALL that stuff gathers. A veritable cocktail of dubious origins.

not advised

[nibot.livejournal.com]

I hope your chemistry shelf was pretty boring.