On Aug 5, 10:49*pm, mm wrote:
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 08:37:14 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03





wrote:
On Aug 4, 11:15*am, "HeyBub" wrote:
DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Aug 4, 8:00 am, "HeyBub" wrote:
Sodium Silicate.

The government mandates that cars traded in under the "Cash for
Clunkers"
program be permanently disabled and specifies that the method used
is to
replace the oil with Sodium Silicate then run the engine until it
freezes.

This has caught the suppliers of the substance by surprise. One
company that
sold maybe 150 gallons of the stuff a year has already sold 15,000
gallons!

From the Wall Street
Journal:http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124934376942503053.html

It may have caught some by surprise, but it has "stimulated" others
into action:

http://www.castlepackspower.com/Catalog/ClunkerBomb/

Heh! Find a need and fill it, I always say.- Hide quoted text -

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I'm guessing that the first few times a mechanic gets to do this to a
car could be fun.

After years of getting filthy and frustrated making old clunkers run,
it must feel good to exact a little revenge and rev them up until they
seize solid and die, while he sits there evilly rubbing his hands
together and laughing maniacally.

It's a violoation of the mechanic's code to do this.

It's like physician-assisted suicide. *If I were a doctor, I'd never
assist a suicide. *And what do they need a doctor for anyone. *It's
one procedure. *Anyone can learn it.

So too can anyone learn to pour that stuff in the engine. I woudn't do
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"I woudn't do it. "

Even if your job was at stake?

Let's say you're a mechanic at a dealer. A clunker gets traded in, the
client gets his gubmint bail-out money and the car ends up in your bay
with a note from the service manager that says "Kill it".

Are you going to say "I won't do it" because of some "mechanic's code"
and risk losing your job?

BTW Where can I find a copy of this "mechanic's code" that you speak
of?