Ive got some parts I want to dechrome!

 

Sounds like that was chlorine gas, a very, very dangerous situation. You would be dead in minutes or less if you inhaled that. Any plant life nearby is surley dead too.

I keep a chrome bar for the pool cover with the chemicals tightly closed in a small Rubbermaid shed. Within a year the bar completley rusted out. I never understood why. Finally learned why from this forum!

 

Yikes, great post. Thanks.

 

As in any type of employment, one keeps track of events involving the same job. I was always nervous when I had to walk back from the engines to find out why we came to an unintended emergency stop. More than once I'd find cars stacked up in the air and down in the river. Usually just lumber or chip cars or box cars but once in a while I'd find tank cars on their side. thank god they're made so tough. I even watched a box car full of paper pulp float in the lake after it took another route.110 tons those things weigh when they're full, but it slowly sank as the pulp absorbed enough water.Could go on but since this is for motorcycles I'll shut up.