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What's the scoop with magnesium chloride? Corrosive?
I've heard the highway department here in NW MT uses magnesium chloride for roadway ice control. Anyone more knowledgeable than I know how damaging this stuff is to vehicles? I'd like to drive the 72's on occasion during the winter to circulate the fluids but won't if this stuff is really bad. Thanks, Pete
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Re: What's the scoop with magnesium chloride? Corrosive?
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Re: What's the scoop with magnesium chloride? Corrosive?
Thanks - sounds not so good then...
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Re: What's the scoop with magnesium chloride? Corrosive?
I don't know of anything used to melt ice on roads to not be highly corrosive. It really sucks to have a fully capable 4wd that sits idle all winter because simply driving it will destroy it.
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Re: What's the scoop with magnesium chloride? Corrosive?
Pete,
I would keep them off the road until spring and a few good rains to wash the roads off just to be safe. |
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Re: What's the scoop with magnesium chloride? Corrosive?
They use that stuff for dust control on dirt roads as well.
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Re: What's the scoop with magnesium chloride? Corrosive?
Thanks guys - it's painful as the trucks just arrived two weeks ago and I've got small tweaks I want to do. I also want to burn up the ethanol containing gas. You're right though I'll keep them off the roads for the winter.
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Re: What's the scoop with magnesium chloride? Corrosive?
......and that my friend is why New Mexico ROCKS!
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Re: What's the scoop with magnesium chloride? Corrosive?
LOL! ABQ has had as much snow....
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Re: What's the scoop with magnesium chloride? Corrosive?
The city of Flagstaff quit putting salt down on the roads up here because it was killing all the trees alongside the roads. It beats the crap out of the roads too. ADOT still salts the roads though and I'm usually out washing my truck in a snowstorm to get all that crap off! Nasty stuff, they should just leave the snow and cinder the roads. People need to slow down in the winter anyways!
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Re: What's the scoop with magnesium chloride? Corrosive?
Honestly Albuquerque has not had much at all...........and no magnesium Chloride that I am aware of...
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Re: What's the scoop with magnesium chloride? Corrosive?
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Ohhhh... so that is why we dont have trees here in Gallup.... ![]() ![]()
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Re: What's the scoop with magnesium chloride? Corrosive?
Up here in michigan everything rusts. We have salt on the roads from december thru april. If we want to keep it we dont drive it in the winter.
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Re: What's the scoop with magnesium chloride? Corrosive?
Or anything else...;-)
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Dont make fun.... I am originally from Bryan and I used to drive a truck into Houston, all you have there is shopping malls, restaurants, museums, football, baseball, nice restaurants, universities, oil, good restaurants, the ship channel, close to beaches, great restaurants, friendly people, theaters,, wait... what was the question again..??
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Re: What's the scoop with magnesium chloride? Corrosive?
We also have a little traffic trying to get to all that stuff.
I've lived, worked, and driven all over the western states and I appreciate the lack of urgency. I visited a cousin in southwestern Kansas and the 'town' is so small they drive 23 miles to buy milk. I needed to beg gas meant for a lawn mower to ride my motorcycle out of town.
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Re: What's the scoop with magnesium chloride? Corrosive?
LOL! I helped build the Pizza Hut in Gallup during a summer while in High School....
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Re: What's the scoop with magnesium chloride? Corrosive?
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the sun melted it off my driveway by noon! I wonder how many hours of overtime that cost us on Thanksgiving?
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Re: What's the scoop with magnesium chloride? Corrosive?
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Cool.!! We have two of them now.. ![]()
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Re: What's the scoop with magnesium chloride? Corrosive?
Here they use rocks. Windshields last about 3 years before needing replacement. Not to mention the paint on the front of my vehicles.
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Re: What's the scoop with magnesium chloride? Corrosive?
You can still drive the truck in the winter, just don't do it when the roads are snowy/wet.
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Re: What's the scoop with magnesium chloride? Corrosive?
I don't even want that dust on my stuff. For me,it's once they spread,it's wait till after the last snow and two rains. People's second largest investment gets eaten so the wheels of progress don't let up. You can't afford to miss work because you have to keep buying new cars
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Re: What's the scoop with magnesium chloride? Corrosive?
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I just chain up and take the back roads if we ever get any snow. On another note, I have heard rumors that ID uses non corrosive chemicals. |
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Re: What's the scoop with magnesium chloride? Corrosive?
It works darn good for that, too, but even that is hard to spray off. It seems...heavy. I did a job about 6 years ago up a dirt road where they used it for dust control, and where I park at my house, I can still tell it's there just from what dripped off my truck. And at our wash bay at the shop, it was harder to clean it off the concrete after a wash. Normal dirt sprays right to the drain, but this stuff just sat there.
The Utaliban has rigged up spray systems on a lot of freeway bridges around here and they use the heck out of it. UDOT has a zero tolerance for snow and ice on the roads.
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Re: What's the scoop with magnesium chloride? Corrosive?
Magnesium Chloride = Liquid Salt.....basically. We use it up here in Can A Duh, and it does work well for ice and snow control, but there is not a chance that I would drive my classic chevy on a road that I has been applied to.
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