"Jeff Wisnia" wrote in message
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David Courtney wrote:

I had the same thing happen about a year ago.
A blue "Precision Brand" spray can leaked, the red one is still fine
(bought at the same time).
Relatively new can, heated shop... blue dye leaked out and ran down
onto the next shelf.


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A few minutes ago I was in the metal working part of my small
electronic assembly service plant. I had been noticing a somewhat
familiar odor the last few weeks, but thought it was from something
one of my employees had been doing in the shop. Now I see a BIG mess
of red-black sticky stuff on two of the storage shelves.

My rules, and a bunch of pens, pencils, paper, and other stuff are
splattered and stuck in a puddle of the stuff.

It all came from a rather new spray can of DYKEM red. A pin hole
developed in the welded seam of the can, about 1 inch from the bottom.
Almost the entire can emptied itself onto the shelves and the stuff on
the shelves.

I can clean it up with denatured alcohol,but what a mess! I am going
to take the can back to Fastenall and see if they will give me a new
one.

The can of blue DYKEM looks ok, but I am going to store it inside a
leak proof container. Too late for the red.

Just thought you all need to know!

Paul in Central Oregon.



I had a six pack of Pepsi in cans tucked away in a closet and forgot it
was there. About a year after I'd put it there I saw it and when I went to
move it the cardboard was stuck to the floor.

A couple of cans had developed pinhole leaks right through their walls and
the pepsi which leaked through them is what dried and stuck the cardboard
to the floor.

I cut open one of the cans and snapped a picture of a hole:

http://home.comcast.net/~jwisnia18/temp/pepsi.html

I pinged the Pepsi folks about what happened and they replied that it
wasn't unusual for that to happen and that's why there's a "use by" date
on them.

Jeff

All that yummy phosphoric, citric, and carbonic acid *loves* to eat
aluminum. That's why there's a polymer film on the inside of the cans. But
it doesn't last forever.

Neither does the lining of your stomach. d8-)

--
Ed Huntress