Your mention of acid suits reminds me of the time I worked at a chemical plant - among other things they dealt in tank-car loads of sulfuric acid. One guy unloading a tank car got sprayed pretty thoroughly with 93% sulfuric acid on a day when he was only wearing acid-proof overalls and a face shield over his clothes, and a gasket blew. He wasn't hurt - there was a safety shower right next to the dock - but he did have to find some spare clothes to wear for the rest of the day. For quite a while after that I razzed him "Hey Art, what does the well-dressed acid handler wear?"
I guess this is a bit off-topic. Suffice it to say there was plenty of heavy industrial waterproof gear around the plant. Not interesting to me though, as it was for the most part quite grungy with dirt, oil, grease, and various chemical residues on it. Now the lab aprons, I liked.
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- Pete
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Pete- No, I don't think you are off topic... Fortunate he was properly dressed for the job! That could have been a Horrible thing to witness!
As far as grungy heavyweight gear, I have learned to like that over the past 10 years or so. I would like to do more mudding, and, when I have a chance to watch it, I love that US cable show called "Dirty Jobs" -mostly when he has to pull on some sort of vinyl raingear!
As far as grungy heavyweight gear, I have learned to like that over the past 10 years or so. I would like to do more mudding, and, when I have a chance to watch it, I love that US cable show called "Dirty Jobs" -mostly when he has to pull on some sort of vinyl raingear!
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Hi, we're getting global, I can watch the same 'Dirty jobs' here in Finland. Tonite Mike will be in San Francisco's Zoo, making cheese and having some mud baths. Let's see if he's properly dressed.
Another program where raingear is abundant is the series of crab fishers in Alaskan waters, cannot remember the English name for that.
And yes sulphuric acid can be very nasty if you're not dressed properly. A long time ago a researcher was carrying a 10 litre glasbottle under his arm and climbing up stairs in a laboratory building. For some reason he slipped and fell and the bottle broke. He is still alive but you can just imagine what he had to go thru. I have also old army NBA suits (German and Finnish incl gas masks) at home, in fact that was what I was originally trained for while doing my military service 'a century ago'. I have sometimes worn those suits during our local rainwearfriends' meetings.
Another program where raingear is abundant is the series of crab fishers in Alaskan waters, cannot remember the English name for that.
And yes sulphuric acid can be very nasty if you're not dressed properly. A long time ago a researcher was carrying a 10 litre glasbottle under his arm and climbing up stairs in a laboratory building. For some reason he slipped and fell and the bottle broke. He is still alive but you can just imagine what he had to go thru. I have also old army NBA suits (German and Finnish incl gas masks) at home, in fact that was what I was originally trained for while doing my military service 'a century ago'. I have sometimes worn those suits during our local rainwearfriends' meetings.
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I would draw a distinction between the kind of grunge one encounters in mud puddles outdoors and the kind that accumulates on raingear when it's used in a chemical plant or on board Navy ships and submarines. The one is nice clean dirt (if that doesn't sound like an oxymoron) and the other could be anything at all.
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That would be "The Most Dangerous Catch", Juppe. Also, there is one about sword fishing with Linda Greenlaw...(I'd like to see her in a suit of oilies!) It has the name of the boat "Sea Hawk" in the titleJuppe wrote: Another program where raingear is abundant is the series of crab fishers in Alaskan waters, cannot remember the English name for that.