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[Rented]

yeah baking soda and boiling water will fix that used it myself loads of times on other cars to

yeah, dont use strong alkalis to neutralise it, as you will get dodgey vapours given off, go for bicarb and lots of water

and what is baking soda? it's just easier to walk into the Asda/Tesco and pick the baking soda off the shelf than to ask for Bicarbonate of soda at the pharmacy. What is easier to get in the supermarket sodium chloride or table salt?

you say tomato i say tomado !

[Sprocket]

yeah baking soda and boiling water will fix that used it myself loads of times on other cars to

yeah, dont use strong alkalis to neutralise it, as you will get dodgey vapours given off, go for bicarb and lots of water

and what is baking soda? it's just easier to walk into the Asda/Tesco and pick the baking soda off the shelf than to ask for Bicarbonate of soda at the pharmacy. What is easier to get in the supermarket sodium chloride or table salt?

What does it matter? Its the same thing. It even says bicarbonate of soda on the back of the baking soda/ powder packet

Hot water is not strictly nescisary, but as any school boy will know chemical reaction works faster with heat. Hot water on its own will only dilute the sulphuric acid. It will still be suphuric acid!

Plenty of bicarbonate of soda 'solution', thats the way

[Dan]

It will still be suphuric acid!

Only now it will be hot sulphuric acid, at a lower dilution but still hot acid.

[jonny d]

got to be neutralised with the bicarb

[Ivor Badger]

yeah baking soda and boiling water will fix that used it myself loads of times on other cars to

yeah, dont use strong alkalis to neutralise it, as you will get dodgey vapours given off, go for bicarb and lots of water

and what is baking soda? it's just easier to walk into the Asda/Tesco and pick the baking soda off the shelf than to ask for Bicarbonate of soda at the pharmacy. What is easier to get in the supermarket sodium chloride or table salt?

What does it matter? Its the same thing. It even says bicarbonate of soda on the back of the baking soda/ powder packet

Hot water is not strictly nescisary, but as any school boy will know chemical reaction works faster with heat. Hot water on its own will only dilute the sulphuric acid. It will still be suphuric acid!

Plenty of bicarbonate of soda 'solution', thats the way

Boiling water dissolves the corrosion faster to clean the thing up.
If you add water to concentrated sulphuric acid, it will get hot anyway. So you always add the sulphuric acid to the water.

[Kam]

Blimey thank god I didnt take a blind bit of notice of science at school? Sounds complicated Yes it was starting to attack the soundproof underneath, carpet has been thrown away and the soundproofing on that side and the marigolds are on standby!

Cheers

P.s I love vinegar