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Has no one ever smelled bearing grease? Even fresh it smells terrible.
different strokes and all that. I've never thought that.
then again I worked in a factory that used shortening as a mould release for years. that shit stinks and gets scummy after a few months. Imagine what it smells like after a few decades.
That sounds horrible, I guess it's more healthy than bearing grease though.
you'd think that, but you'd be wrong.
ever hear of popcorn lung? yeah, working there, all the old timers had it. I had only worked there for about 5 years but the smell got into everything.
How'd they get popcorn lung from that? Did it aerosolize from the us?
BTW those people who got popcorn lung which ended up coining the term, all were heavy heavy smokers. So yes it's dangerous but it's one of those...well it probably didn't help that they smoked like freight trains.
yeah. the factory was doing diecast parts at 1400° and the shortening was a mould release so the parts would pop out of the dies.
the pressure that those machines push in molten metal plus the high temperature would vaporize the shortening and with 3-12 tons of pressure aerosolize it.
Even after 5 years there I had a bit of a cough, but nothing as bad as the old guys that had been around for 30+ years.
That sounds fucking awful. Did they not give you guys any PPE?
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no.
the best ppe we got was cotton uniforms so when the metal sprayed out (which happened daily) would burn and not melt to our skin.
we also got some pretty nice gloves too for grabbing the parts out of the machines. usually they'd come out around 700° and have to go on cooling racks.
Wtf, were was this at? Assuming not the USA, OSHA would have had a field day with that.
this was about 30 years ago in the US. Back in the 2008 recession the factory closed down and moved to Mexico.
The owner was a typical "nice guy" corpo douchebag. you know the type, nice to your face but profits over people.
I gained a lot of experience from that job that I still use to this day.
Sounds like it. Probably moved to Mexico for the cheaper labor and OSHA violations probably were barreling down on him.
I dunno if it's some kind of additive, but AFAIK it universally smells like stinky bugs, just weaker.
I got a syringe of same looking red grease for installing a bicycle bottom bracket, (might have been for a fancy front fork?)
and it smelled vaguely sweet... like almost fructosey enough to make you imagine it was raspberry flavored.
Might have been some other compound, cause straight bearing grease for cars/trucks/heavy equipment/etc doesn't smell pleasant at all.
It's an acquired taste
I think you mean delicious
Try smelling used diff or transmission oil...
Diff oil is the worst, especially if it's been heated in a catastrophuck.
Diff oil that's been burned and over due for a change is probably one of the most vile things on the planet. Even rotting carcasses don't match it.
I've smelled rotting human remains. I doubt it smells worse than a bloated cadaver in the summer heat.
Same here and you'd be surprised. It's one of those unnaturally putrid smells that even trying to breathe through your mouth fails to dilute.