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Wed 2 Mar 2005 21:23
Don't do it! - hillman
I have come across a white van in New Mills once or twice recently with the hood up. I passed very carefully the first time, expecting to find a chap trying to get his engine started. Today I was walking and got a better look. It was a couple of blokes laying tarmac on someone's driveway. The engine was running, and on top of it was laid a 25kg polythene bag of tarmac being heated. The ambient temperature was about 3 or 4 deg.C., and it started snowing heavily shortly afterwards. I trust that fellow backroomers were not involved.
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Wed 2 Mar 2005 22:24
Don't do it! - Pugugly {P}
"hood"
Sorry had an image of a convertable Astra van !!!
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Wed 2 Mar 2005 22:47
Don't do it! - Civic8
>>and on top of it was laid a 25kg polythene bag of tarmac being heated.

Tarmac is heated in steel drums.polythene sheet protects against the Elements.While cooling down..Bag would melt before tar..
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Steve
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Wed 2 Mar 2005 23:56
Don't do it! - Aprilia
Must have been 'cold lay' tarmac.
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Thu 3 Mar 2005 00:00
Don't do it! - keo-the-dog
de-furred tarmac what the council use for small patches comes in bags lasts about 30 seconds when driven over totally useless stuff...cheers...keo.
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Thu 3 Mar 2005 22:00
Don't do it! - hillman
"Hood"
Sorry, 'bonnet', I was abroad too long. The van was like a Ford Transit with bonnet not very large. I think that someone is going to be very disapointed, because the bag wouldn't had got more than warm, and the ground was near freezing.
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Thu 3 Mar 2005 22:37
Don't do it! - SlightlyFatRep
Another top tip is never, never, never take the raditor cap off a overheating engine 'to release pressure'. Did this once to help two v.pretty girls in a car park whose Fiesta sounded like it was about to blow up (you could hear the 'coolant' boiling).

Showing off, I covered cap with a towel, twisted and had towel and cap blow 5 cars away and got a shot of boiling antifreeze straight up my arm over my chest and straight in the face.

Laughed it off to the girls (shock kicking in) but soon had to drive myself to A&E.

Left waiting for an hour with no assistance as they thought I had done it on a domestic radiator (without the corrosive antifreeze in!) When understood what a plonker I had been I had three nurses all over me (and not in the way I wanted!). General panic and mayhem (oh, and a not inconsiderable ammount of pain!)

The scaring has now disappeared after 12 years (I was very lucky), although for 5 years I had the imprint of a Denim shirt burn't into my front as that is what I was wearing at the time and the thick stiching arround the pockets etc protected the skin in that area.

Do Not Show Off If You Do Not Know What You Are Doing! Here endeth the lesson...........
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Fri 4 Mar 2005 22:09
Don't do it! - Pugugly {P}
Hood
Sorry not getting at you just my own puddled brain !
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Fri 4 Mar 2005 22:08
Don't do it! - LongDriver {P}
I think you meant "deferred", as in delayed set. It just has a higher penetration (the measurement of hardness in this case) bitumen as the binder, from which the volatile hydrocarbons evaporate off more slowly.

Other than that, there's no real difference between defreed set (or cold lay) and hot lay DBMs.
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Fri 4 Mar 2005 22:08
Don't do it! - LongDriver {P}
and I'll put me teef in and spell deferred proper!
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Fri 4 Mar 2005 22:44
Don't do it! - keo-the-dog
the stuff i am reffereing to the council call de-furred dont know why but it is very small stones in a lighter bitumen and you lay it cold, although it works "better" if warmed up a bit. it's supposed to be used to fill in on top of concrete when installing sign posts etc but local council use it for potholes and it is useless stuff mainly because it doesn't last as it's not designed to be used for the purpose they use it for. it probably is called deferred , but they dont call it that even on their worksheets...cheers...keo.
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