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Title: Got that smell again...
Post by: feeutfo on 10 December 2011, 00:08:37
...of what ever it is they put in road grit. Bloody stinks off the hot exhaust. Thought sumat was leaking at first, then remembered from last year.  :-[  getting old you know....  :-\   ;D
Title: Re: Got that smell again...
Post by: Van Helsing on 10 December 2011, 01:55:23
...of what ever it is they put in road grit. Bloody stinks off the hot exhaust. Thought sumat was leaking at first, then remembered from last year.  :-[  getting old you know....  :-\   ;D

Magic Trees, I gather this is a touchy subject :D :D :D
Title: Re: Got that smell again...
Post by: dad1uk on 10 December 2011, 08:44:51
Ask TB, he might be able to give some advice! ::)
Title: Re: Got that smell again...
Post by: TheBoy on 10 December 2011, 10:14:08
As I was enjoying a quiet pint with my best mate in the Red Lion last night, I saw them gritting Brackley's Market Street (effectively the High Street).  I thought it was quite mild, but then I was wearing my beer coat...
Title: Re: Got that smell again...
Post by: feeutfo on 10 December 2011, 10:55:37
It was forcast to be minus temp last night. M4 gritted a couple of times last week.
Good they are on the ball, but there go firther grip levels for a couple of months with all that dusty salt on the road.  :'(
Title: Re: Got that smell again...
Post by: Kevin Wood on 10 December 2011, 11:01:25
Just making sure they've completely depleted the stocks of grit before the weather gets really bad - I see they learnt from last year, then. ;D
Title: Re: Got that smell again...
Post by: TheBoy on 10 December 2011, 12:18:54
Just making sure they've completely depleted the stocks of grit before the weather gets really bad - I see they learnt from last year, then. ;D
Exactly.

During the snow, not sure I've ever seen Market Street gritted ;D
Title: Re: Got that smell again...
Post by: feeutfo on 10 December 2011, 12:24:35
Just making sure they've completely depleted the stocks of grit before the weather gets really bad - I see they learnt from last year, then. ;D
Exactly.

During the snow, not sure I've ever seen Market Street gritted ;D
...are we entering damned if they do damned if they dont teritory? Give the machinary a work out imo. If little else. ;D
Title: Re: Got that smell again...
Post by: waspy on 11 December 2011, 11:14:08
...of what ever it is they put in road grit. Bloody stinks off the hot exhaust. Thought sumat was leaking at first, then remembered from last year.  :-[  getting old you know....  :-\   ;D

They mix Molasses in with the salt & grit. It works down to a lower temp than normal salt/grit mix.
Title: Re: Got that smell again...
Post by: Cliffo B on 11 December 2011, 12:59:48
And I understand sticks to the underbody of vehicles and is not easy to wash away after all I think it's molasses  in with the grit/salt that resists it easily being washed off the road surface so you can expect the same effect going on under our motors ie a highly corrosive substance in the nooks and cranny's beavering away all year round when it becomes moist /wet possibly the only antidote is a regular hot wash underneath specially of the suspension subframes as the underbody panels on miggy appears to have a substantial coating of underseal I have already given it a thorough inspection