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Posted: 1/15/2013 1:33:01 AM EDT
Sink has been giving the wife trouble. Yesterday we put drano in it. I put the rest of the drano down it earlier tonight. Turns out the water from the sink just flowed into the dishwasher.
I put some sulfuric acid down the drain to finish off the clog, not knowing about the drano water in the dishwasher. I gassed myself out the kitchen when I opened the dishwasher  . Holy crap was it strong, totally incapacitated me as I fumbled outside to get fresh air while chocking on my own lungs. |
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Posted: 1/15/2013 2:14:06 AM EDT
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Today on Mr. Wizard....... Mixing acids and bases.
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Posted: 1/15/2013 2:18:41 AM EDT
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Today on Mr. Wizard....... Mixing acids and bases. Lmao, first post. |
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Posted: 1/15/2013 2:25:02 AM EDT
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Today on Mr. Wizard....... Mixing acids and bases. 
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Posted: 1/15/2013 2:33:31 AM EDT
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Quoted: Today on Mr. Wizard....... Mixing acids and bases.  |
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Posted: 1/15/2013 3:18:05 AM EDT
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Sounds like you are dumping the chemicals into your garbage disposal. Look under your sink at the plumbing. Your pipe is clogged at the TEE where the disposal drain connects to the other line before it goes into the PTRAP. All of these fittings can be taken apart with the bare hands usually in under 1 minute, cleaned and reassembled. The TEE fitting mentioned before has a diverter in it which will clog EVERY time celery is put in it and also with several other types of peelings.
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Posted: 1/15/2013 3:37:27 AM EDT
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Yeah dude that is basic stuff. Be careful, you could die like that.
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Posted: 1/15/2013 4:38:37 AM EDT
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I would have to look at the container... Does anyone know the ingredients in Drano?
OP, in what form was the H2SO4 you put down the drain? In a household cleaner? When someone mentions using such chemicals, the first thing that pops into my mind are the bottles of highly concentrated reagents we'd use in our labs. H2SO4, with a high enough Molarity will ignite paper. Not stuff I would dump down a household drain. |
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Posted: 1/15/2013 4:44:34 AM EDT
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I would have to look at the container... Does anyone know the ingredients in Drano? OP, in what form was the H2SO4 you put down the drain? In a household cleaner? When someone mentions using such chemicals, the first thing that pops into my mind are the bottles of highly concentrated reagents we'd use in our labs. H2SO4, with a high enough Molarity will ignite paper. Not stuff I would dump down a household drain. I want to say it's NaOH, primarily with a few other things. HS is some nasty stuff. |
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Posted: 1/15/2013 5:45:25 AM EDT
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I would have to look at the container... Does anyone know the ingredients in Drano? OP, in what form was the H2SO4 you put down the drain? In a household cleaner? When someone mentions using such chemicals, the first thing that pops into my mind are the bottles of highly concentrated reagents we'd use in our labs. H2SO4, with a high enough Molarity will ignite paper. Not stuff I would dump down a household drain. They make a sulphuric acid based drain cleaner, not sure of the normality. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Posted: 1/15/2013 5:53:09 AM EDT
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Sounds like you mixed H2SO4 & NaOH.....should make Na2SO4 & 2H2O if I remember the chemistry correctly. Essentially you made sodium sulfate and hydrogen peroxide.
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Posted: 1/15/2013 6:10:45 AM EDT
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Today on Mr. Wizard....... Mixing acids and bases. |
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Posted: 1/15/2013 8:37:13 AM EDT
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Quoted: Sounds like you mixed H2SO4 & NaOH.....should make Na2SO4 & 2H2O if I remember the chemistry correctly. Essentially you made sodium sulfate and hydrogen peroxide. So what was the awful gas by product? |
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Posted: 1/15/2013 8:39:19 AM EDT
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For the cost of just a few bottles of drano, you can buy a snake. The snake will work better, it just takes a bit more effort.
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Posted: 1/15/2013 8:42:13 AM EDT
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Sounds like you are dumping the chemicals into your garbage disposal. Look under your sink at the plumbing. Your pipe is clogged at the TEE where the disposal drain connects to the other line before it goes into the PTRAP. All of these fittings can be taken apart with the bare hands usually in under 1 minute, cleaned and reassembled. The TEE fitting mentioned before has a diverter in it which will clog EVERY time celery is put in it and also with several other types of peelings. Taking it apart is the easy part. But it usually leaks when I put it back together, so it takes me 3 or 4 times to get it back together and have it pass a leak check. |
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Posted: 1/15/2013 8:44:04 AM EDT
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For the cost of just a few bottles of drano, you can buy a snake. The snake will work better, it just takes a bit more effort. and, this is why that plumber will charge you $97.50 to do it for you, and be done in fifteen minutes..... 
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Posted: 1/15/2013 8:47:03 AM EDT
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Does pouring powerful acids and caustics down your plastic drain pipes really seem like a good idea to you?
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Posted: 1/15/2013 8:49:58 AM EDT
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I once heated up some parkerizing solution in the kitchen at 3am using one of my wife's glass corning ware pot things, when it started to boil the entire pot exploded sending boiling hot acid and glass shards everywhere.
The wife slept through the entire ordeal and never noticed anything unusual other than the kitchen was spotless for some mysterious reason. |
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Posted: 1/15/2013 9:06:57 AM EDT
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Sink has been giving the wife trouble. Yesterday we put drano in it. I put the rest of the drano down it earlier tonight. Turns out the water from the sink just flowed into the dishwasher. I put some sulfuric acid down the drain to finish off the clog, not knowing about the drano water in the dishwasher. I gassed myself out the kitchen when I opened the dishwasher . Holy crap was it strong, totally incapacitated me as I fumbled outside to get fresh air while chocking on my own lungs.
google chemical suicides and then thank your lucky stars. J- |
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Posted: 1/15/2013 9:10:35 AM EDT
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Sulfuric
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